'Whiskers' makes its first appearance.....

A delicate yellow as it just opened, with a subtle and heavenly scent. Many more buds to come on this cutting that is just now taking off with its first flush of blooms. :-)

Beautiful pic of a beautiful brug! Congratulations Candy!

Very pretty, can't wait for mine to bloom. I have had it seems like forever. It has not Y'd yet so I guess it will be awhile.........
Yours is really pretty though and sure gives me something to look forward to........ :)
Dee

I or one of my helpers lost the tag from mine last Fall so I don't know where or which mine is. I was hoping when and if it blooms, I'd know it.

Whew!! I gotta get this one!

Beautiful shot Candy, what in the heck are you giving it to make the leaves so nice? Next to Becca Lynn, it's my biggest bug magnet, I just keep hoping something will work for the bugs :(

Happenstance, very beautiful flower and photo. One of my favorite brugs.

I'm with Vi, mine has nice buds (first time for me) so I'm anxious to see it bloom - but the leaves are totally eaten.

Happenstance, great picture of a great brug. Luckily it is one that will do very well in a not terribly large pot. I have one in a 12" pot sunk into the ground at corner of my deck, and it has been blooming on and off for a month. I am sure the blooms aren't as large as yours but does do well and smells wonderful from the deck. Donna

Here's hoping that all of yours bring as much pleasure as mine has given me. It has a wonderful scent. I haven't really been giving it anything and we've had very few bugs this year, so I think I've just been lucky in that regard.

A bit darker yellow this morning, but oh so pretty. :-) I have a couple of other cuttings getting ready to bloom, including Janet Reno which I'm excited to see.

She is very pretty. Mine won't get that yellow for some reason. Great pictures.

I'm convinced it is the commercially bagged manure that I dress the yard with in the spring and again in the fall. Our "growing season" is pretty much 12 months long and I found this was the easiest way to make sure there is something available year round to feed most things. I did one foliar feeding of the whole yard a couple of months ago, but didn't see any striking results, although I'm sure it did help to some degree.

You must have some great soil by now with all the manure added. I'm going to have to get more serious about amending my soil. Thanks.

Wow
My whiskers was never that dark
Love the color!

Happenstance, If you take cuttings in the Fall, I would love to do a trade with you. I am out in Livermore.

Patricia

Good to see you Candy!!! I cannot wait until my Whiskers blooms, I hope it looks just like yours, it's beautiful!!!

beautifull really beautiful..

Beautiful bloom and photos, Candy...I have my first bud on my Whiskers, a rooted cutting obtained in April. Checking it daily for bloom, but the bud is small. I think it will take awhile! When did you root and plant yours?
Margie

I'm confused because I thought Whiskers was white. Mine has just starting getting buds.....

Just beautiful! I really love that shade of yellow!

Betty, Whiskers is definitely yellow. I think you were remembering the brug that was temporarily called "White Whiskers", (one of Cala's babies) that was renamed Ambrosia by our Natalynn. Ambrosia is not yet readily available, so rest assured, you most likely have the real Whiskers.

Congratulations on growing this beautiful Brug!

Would you also post a picture of when the bud begins to unfurl its tendrils. I'm trying to compare it to "Lake Effect" and "Whiskers" that I grew out for Crestedchik. Thanks! :~)

Even with the heat wave we've been experiencing the last few days 'Whiskers' is doing really well and I'm so pleased with it. Here are a few more pictures, with the darker yellow(gold) flower being the one I originally posted on the 25th. It has been close to 100F for since then and the flowers are holding up well. This gets full sun until about 2pm and then is in full shade for the rest of the day.

And here's another of an opening bud with the tendrils for you Shirley:

More buds:

Thanks so much for posting pictures of the buds opening with its tendrils. The length is incredible!! What does it measure?

Measuring from where each flower is attached to the branch here are the measurements.

My Whiskers are white also. I got these as seedlings from the lady that passed away about a year ago......wasn't her name Gloria? I made tree standards out of them, and they all are blooming white blooms. I could be wrong on who sent them to me, but they were definitely named Whiskers.

What a beaut! Never can get tired of looking at this one.....

Hi Happenstance! I bought a yellow brug, but don't have any idea what
name is attached to it, only that the tag says yellow. It has Y'd and has 3
buds. I am so anxious to see what it turns out to be. Your yellow brug is
beautiful! I'm new to Brugs. How often should I be feeding them? At present
I am feeding about every 10 days. I think I am in zone 8a. I live on the
Mississippi Gulf Coast.
mjoyce

If you are fertilizing them with miracle gro (or better yet, Peter's Excel) then your schedule is fine. I start mine out in the spring with Black Kow and bone meal and then let them have it once a month with that rose fertilizer that has systemic insecticides with it. I don't use a water-soluble fertilizer weekly because it's just too darn hard to climb up and down my steep property with a watering can or drag a hose that far.
I am experimenting with the alfalfa pellets, however. I am just applying them like fertilizer because it has been so rainy here that they don't need additional water.

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mjoyce -
I'm not big on "feeding" ....... things grow fast and BIG here with just my spring & fall applications of commercially bagged manure. Along with everything else in the garden they might get an occasional dose of fish emulsion. Better to listen to violabird or other growers in your area.

Margie -

Sorry I missed your question above.....welcome back to you, hope things are going well for you. This was a cutting I received from a fellow DGer last fall, rooted it in the greenhouse over winter and I think it went into the ground sometime after the garden tour in May. It's only about 4' tall, but is putting out a nice bunch of flowers. I've been defoliating most of the brug cuttings I put in the ground, hoping to give the plants time to put their efforts into a strong root system and trunk strength. The basal shoots that I took from my Dr. Seuss (was my CG) and my Double White are the most sturdy and healthiest of these babies.

'Whiskers' is now climbing all over Double White, competing for all the space it can acquire.

Beautiful blooms.

Shoot, Candy, I look so forward to competing brugs, yours are beautiful, I LOVE your photos!!!

Thanks you guys.....makes the side yard pretty darn fragrant and it wafts in through the laundry room window. Wish I could capture the aroma and make a fabric softener sheet out of it. :-)

Candy, you would be the fabric softener, brug queen bazillionair, whew...and, I/we could say we knew you way back when...

Candy great shots! I love the color of your Whisker's, one looks pinkish/reddish or is my vision going bad...don't answer that lol

Candy, that is a pretty brug but it is not Whiskers.
If you look in the database at Snowhermit's and Bward's photos you can see that the calyx comes much further down on the flower, most of the time it has only one split, occasionally two.
The leaves are very serrated even in the blooming region (shows very well in Bward's photo). Also Whisker never turns orange. It is alway yellow even as it ages.