I emailed Kyle to show him his new baby and ask why it does not look like a suaveolens like its parents Isabella X Rafaella. He writes me back duh girl, it is Isabella X Esmeraldas.
LOL. I am now even SO excited waiting for the rest of the babies to bloom. Take a look at Esmeraldas!!!
http://www.kwekerijgommer.com/brugmansia_foto's.asp
My pretty white takes on a whole new dimension now for genes.
Kell, I'm a pink person, too, but this ruffled white is beautiful, and you never know what it might do next year. Some of us don't really peak until we get a little bit older. Hope that some of those pink genes show through on it, & it's siblings!
I do like this white. Very lady like.
I like it also, love it's ruffles!
Ah, my true friends....LOL! But I have other ones in my yard of this cross. I would just love 1 that looked like Esmeraldas!!! And I know Kyle could use a moral boost after all his that were so close to bloom having to be brought inside since it turned so cold. I would love to give him a bright pink!
WOW! picture of Esmeraldas is beautiful!!! Anything close would be great.
I agree Gloria!! And even if white, I have pink genes in there right? I put L'amour on it. And the next one I am putting RK on it. My RK is about to open. Then the babies will be 3/4 wild.
Of course where I am putting these for the winter, I have no idea. When I dig them up and they have pods, will they fall off? If we were to have a mild winter like last year, I would just have to throw a blanket over it one night the whole winter. Of course the wind last winter would tear it apart.
My DH told me last night I can't have a 12 foot hoophouse. I need one at least that high. I wonder why I can't!
I have another one about to open and I think it is the same cross. The buds are 1/3 the size of the white one. But the tendrils are longer. No pink in sight! But in one description I read last night on Esmeraldas, it opens white then turns pink!
Oh I want to turn pink!! Head to toe! A true 1950's baby!
You got that right, just keep trying, one night it will become pink!
Beautiful Kell!!!!1
Kell, Esmeraldas is a wild cultivar.So its genes are a plus anyway you use it.Wild forms are always stronger for some reason.
It is SO beautiful! Is it fragrant too?
