Lila-Rose x Arborea

Here's a pod i'm waiting on! Should be interesting to see what the seedling turn out like! Hopefully a big pink or small white!

Best wishes always,

Bruno

Lila rose is very pretty....too bad it won't grow in our climate in Iowa...Too hot here.

As I've mentioned once or twice....I'd kill for just one seed. I think that it would come out pink. (Liz is wondering if she read that correctly) Anyone else have educated ideas what this cross will produce? Lucky lucky lucky.

Hi Kyle...yeah, lila-rose is a very neat plant! Slender pink flowers....It's the EP of the Arborea group LOL

LOL@Dennis, hmmm..and if I gave you 2 seeds would you kill 2 people..LOLOL

I've a funny feeling there's not many seeds in the pod! I'd love to cross Lila-Rose to a fully red Sang or even better, a fully red x flava! I'm hopeing that one of these days I'll produce a hybrid good enough to name after my mother!

Whatever it takes.

OK...hmm let me see...Well I think top of the list would be 1.Sadam Husain and No.2.Osama Binladen (excuse the spelling)!
But first you'ld have to make them pollinate everyone's Brugs with their turbans! LOL

Done!

OK Dennis, You twisted my arm..LOL! I'm not promising anything, But when the pod ripens i'll see if i can send you a few seeds! After all, life's more enjoyable when shared and at the end of the day they're only plants! :o)

Bruno, where did you get your lila-rose?

I got it from the Gommer Nursery http://www.kwekerijgommer.com/ ! All the plants I got from them were virus-free and have grow really well since! Hendrik Gommer rang me himself to organise and finalise my order, and the plants were package really well too, each plant in it's own container! Hendrik's a really nice guy!

Gee Bruno....why could'nt you say you got it from a place in California??? LOL

LOL...If I could I'd send one to Kellifornia! LOL

LOL Bruno! too cute you are!

In 2004 Bruno kindly send me seeds of this cross and of B. arborea x Mobisu. Those was grown out in 2005. Started them in january and they began to flower early, some already in July the same year.

Here are a few examples of different flower types of the two crosses :)

This is a small flower, but with a shape, that was new to me.

This flower was very long and vertical hanging down. The narrow part of the flower was visible.

A 30 cm long, big flower. The plant it self was also larger, than usual for its kind.

Also a fine shape on a small flower.

This flower together with the first flower shown has much of its apperances in common with B. sanguinea, but for the flowers, that turn white.

Also a big flower, but the apperance is closer to B. arborea, than the other species in the mix :)

Also much B. arborea in the apperances, but the flower is short and fat. Love this one.

A very long and slender flower. White with exclusive smell. Unfortunately it doesn' t exist now. The plant was slow and very weak of growth.

Good tendrils.

The flower has a beautiful shape, but like the previous on a plant, that merely will grow.

Right now the plants is waiting for May 20. where they can be placed in the garden again. They are already in good vigour and make a lot of flowerbuds, but they fall of again, as it is still to dark for them to flower :)

Nice pictures, Tonny. I really like the last one. Bruno's babies are all nice.

Hi Tonny, haven't seen you for a while. Those are great pictures of Bruno's babies. I love sangs and flavas and arboreas. The shapes are gorgeous.

Tonny, thanks for sharing your pictures. They are all beautiful and I love the shapes of some of them.

Mr Plantaholic, I visited your country for the first time this past Fall. We are experiencing much the same weather here in California right now that I had on my trip. Your country is absolutely beautiful, and I hope to get to visit there again one of these day's.

Patricia

Yes, isn't they, but I think that some of the shapes could benefit from a little more work on them. Such as the first picture. The shape is close to B. sanguinea, but would it not be lovely, if the shape could be crossed out and look even more like B. sanguinea, but still be snowwhite? I love #2. The flower is very small and tubeshaped. The color don' t make me declare a Hurrah!!!, ... but I like, that the flower has not much of a border, but in return, that the tendrils are fine and long. I will probably never be satisfied LOL Here is a picture from February/Marts of the plants. I know, that Bruno would be proud of his babies.

How is Bruno doing? Have you heard from him?

I don' t know, what became of him, Jeanne.

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We are above 5 *C the next ten days, so I figured it was time to give Brunos hybrids a headstart in the GH, where there is more light. There is still some time, until I can put them out in the garden. That will be between May 1.- 20.

I put them out in the garden a month ago and they are all loaded in buds. It won' t be long, before the first flowers shows. I cross my fingers that the colors and shapes remain the same :D

I can't wait to see them, I hope they are all just as beautiful as they were last season Tonny!!