Arlene, this is your special day and the world is certainly a better place having you in it. I feel fortunate to have met you and glad to have you as my friend. Have fun today planting. Your garden will be filled with beautiful blooms before you know it. Have a great day!!
Frannie
Happy Birthday, Special Lady, Arlene!
Hoping your Special Day is wonderful ((o:
Happy Birthday!!
Alice
Happy Happy Birthday dear friend. I hope your special day is filled with as much happiness as you have given to so many here on this site. Have a wonderful birthday!
Happy birthday to you.......hope it's a GREAT day!
Happy Birthday Arlene!!!March Babies must love Brugs!Have the best day that you want!It is YOUR Birthday!
Xs and Os To You XOXOXO!
Ludger Thats is Hugs and Kisses,LOL.
Happy birthday with all the best wishes for you. May luck, health and happieness be with you. Have a nice day.
happy birthday dear lady. I hope your weather is gorgeous today. I hope you get to stay home all day:) unless it's you that wants to go off. take care and enjoy!!!
love you
Have a very happy Birthday Arlene! Hope you have a great day!
Kristi
Happy Birthday Arlene. I hope you have a special day today with your family and friends.
A very special Happy Birthday to you Arlene.I hope this is the best one ever.
Arlene....I hope you have a great day today. I'll be thinking about you today and hope you take a break from planting and just spend the day relaxing. Maybe DH and kids will treat you to a great night out too. You are a sweetie and I think of you all the time. Happy Birthday my friend.
Arlene, your 39th birthday is a badge of honor - enjoy it. My 39th is coming in one month, and I can't wait to say "I'm 39"! LOL Have a WONDERFUL day and HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
(*(*(*(*HAPPY BIRTHDAY ARLENE*)*)*)*)
Best wishes always,
Bruno
Arlene, Happy Birthday to You!!! I wish all the best to you.
I know that you are having some special pink brugdreams..may them become true this year.
Enjoy your special Day!!!
Greetings
Ludger
Have a great BD, hope you have many more to come.
Happy Birthday Arlene!!!!!
Happy Birthday Arlene
Thank you so much to all of you! Ms Frannie, i love my hug. Kay, isn't that strange, we're the same age??? lolol.... taking a break, i've been planting and pruning. DH and kids are supposed to help me today, i wonder if i'll be able to find them? lol....love to you all....
Awesome Arlene!
and here I thought it was an annual 29th birthday!
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Arlene! May many more, just as wonderful follow!
Mary
Have the best of days Arlene! Happy, Happy Birthday!
Enjoy the "39"th, when you have to say that BAD word "40", it is terrible! I know.........
Arlene, happy birthday! I hope you are enjoying your special day!!!!
Happy Birthday Arlene. I hope your day is special.
Larry
Gee - I almost missed the party!! Hope you have a wonderful day and get all that planting & pruning done, Lol - I know it is never really done!!
Happy Birthday to a very special lady...one who is kind and sharing to so many people. I hope your special day has been beautiful Arlene!!
Jean
Happy Birthday!!!
Colie
Happy Birthday, Arlene!
Happy birthday!
Arlene, I wanted to wish you a belated Happy Birthday. I have been away from my computer so missed your special day.
Patricia
Happy Birthday Arlene! I know its late, but better late than never. Seems like just yesterday we were pulling Brugs out of the ground and loading them up into your truck. Or for that matter discussing our hybridizing attempts with each other. I hope you get some spectacular seedlings to bloom for your Birthday. Wishing you a wonderful brug day and many more.
Your friend,
Eric
To all: many many thanks and best wishes to you all.
Hi, my friend Eric! i hope you and your family are all well. i think about you all the time. i just put some EP on 2 butterfly blooms, used foil to wrap them and thought of Monika and you talking about this.
i have 15 brugs put in the ground from over wintered pots, they range from a few inches - frozen back to 6 feet...BF, Maya, Kyles Pink. i have been terrible at getting to daves and even doing email lately, gotta work on that. wishing you the best...
and we miss you all the time girl!!!
Butterfly x Ecuador pink sounds great Arlene. I know you like the versicolor and candida type the most and I'm certain this is exactly what you'll get. Albeit, not true candida or true versicolor, but those shapes none the less. Personally, I'm hoping you get some shorter candida types in darker shades of pink to red. You do plan on growing all of those beauties out I hope? Me personally, I think Ecuador pink grows too slow and is not as easy to root as some other pink versicolor type hybrids, but again its most certainly a wonderful hybrid to work with as Monika's hybrids have certainly shown. Of course, I like my Amber Rose and Dr.D with Ecuador pink as the father as well, but to be honest they show too much versicolor for my current taste. I do like the soft mixes that multi-color crossing seems to sometimes give. I just wish I had of grown all of my Dr.Sues x Ecuador pink out to see if I could have also gotten a few darker colors out of them as well instead of simply going for first year bloomers that rooted well. Well, you live and you learn and hopefully a bit more selective as well. Still, I think Dr.D and Amber Rose have potential as breeding plants simply because of their mixed genes and of course their parents being both in color should yield some nice shades. I know, I ramble on way too much, but its not too often anymore at least. Still, I must confess Monika has shown me that with a bit more patience and willingness to let more hybrids bloom that the best may be in what one culls sometimes when one culls too early or one doesn't allow enough hybrids to grow out when one is selecting for early blooming hybrids. I personally feel that for my earlier goal of creating exceptional hybrids that are first year bloomers to pan out I would be much better off only growing one or two crosses so as to have a much wider selection from the very beginning. The idea I have is that breeding for hardy first year bloomers may eventually give way to a line that progressively blooms earlier and earlier giving me the option of growing more hybrids in the long run and not just one or two crosses. Still, anything worth going after takes time and patience of which I often times feel I am lacking...especially when waiting for that first bloom on that new cross to bloom. Please keep me posted on all of your wonderful creations Arlene as I am sure that this new year is going to take its toll on my own hybridizing attempts and I must have something trully spectacular to look at in the states as its all too long of a process to recieve plants from overseas anymore. Not that they aren't well worth the wait, its just that patience thing again.
Take care my friend,
Sincerely,
Eric
oh Eric, we sure do miss your ramblings!!! I don't think any of us ever complained about there being too many:)
Eric, thanks for your words.I am impressed.
May be, soon I will honore some of your crosses.
They have been your ideas, I have some same crossing in my GH, with Y. It will be your crosses for ever because you have made it first.
You will be the " fatherbrugnut" lol, hope I used the right words.
You must give some advices how going on with pollinating,to me.
Ludger,
I sure hope you are recreating the Dr.Sues x Ecuador pink as that is the one cross I think that had the most potential for color..thinking the best shapes may come from the next generation with that one though.I can't wait to see your hybrids if that is indeed the case though. Keeping my fingers crossed for you.
Eric, as Cotton Candy is that cross, what do I do with it now?? I crossed it with Butterfly last year and there are seeds being grown as we speak. What else? and what do I cross the CCxBfly seedlings with?
Thank you Eric,some are Dr.S x EP. I will use Rothkirch and some yellow Brugs for pollination.
