Snowbanks flush of flowers

Snowbank has been blooming on and off for months.. this time it built up a full flush of blooms... the yellowing/browning of the older leaves is somewhat of a distraction.. but I pick them off when they get distracting... there's always plenty of smaller newer leaves awaiting underneath .. more acclimated to current conditions..as they are new.. rather than the conditions that might have existed back in the late winter when they were formed.. with all of it suposed problems... only the leaf degradeing is the only one I see.. and it's just the way it is.. and love her just that way .... she's not the tallest grower but strikeing for sure... Gordon

WOW, that's lots of blooms. Mine is not growing much at all and has never even Yd.

Perhaps a close up of the flower... for me opening pristinely white.. then developing a light blush of a pink/beige mostly on the outside of the petals..

Lovely Brug you have there Gordon! Given my location I will have to get one here as well. ;)

OH this snowbank was a smallish fall cutting last fall... Fall 2003
IHUGHES ... is yours growing in the ground... if it's potted... try putting it out on the concrete or asphault driveway to give it bottom heat... mine grows quite nicely..
GORDON

lucky you. You are one of a few that has had good luck with it.

I have mine planted in the ground - it hasn'[t done much of anything - did get some taller, but the new leaves stay close to the trunk. The leaf coloring is eye catching, but so far not a bud to be seen! This is it's first year, so I will give it one more summer to show me something.

It looks great GordonHawk!

Lookin good. That one is a keeper for sure.

Looks good.

Just beautiful -- you sure have the touch with this one that a lot of us here don't have... Congrats on her great flush!

Boy, you sure have done well with your Snowbank. I finally gave up the fight and gave mine away. Nice picture.

Lovely-I can't wait to get one

Yours is the prettiest one I have seen. You must have the magic touch because I never could get mine to do anything and finally tossed it.

Looking great! Mine is currently full of cat holes. I love the flowers! Are they fragrant?

Well ... it's such a lovely looking plant.. such bold markings... real easy to root from a cutting... too bad ya'll are haveing such trouble with it.. and so many have given up and tossed it .. perhaps given it away... sure wish I'd known I could have saved on buying mine... but for the success in light of such problems with it .. I'm happy to have done so..
there's a bunch of diffrent opinions to growing this.. mine follow..
The plant is grown in NYC.. it spent the fall as a cutting from the mother plant rooting on the window sill.. light from 7-12 am it developed nicely and was placed outside maybe the first of May.. it gets full NYC sun from 7 AM to 8PM.. it's lightly sheltered from wind by a fence some 20' away... The plant sits right on the black rubber roof membrane.. which heats up considerably on sunny days... one day at noon there was an air temperature of 80*F.. my french mercury cooking thermometer had the roof temperature ....as measured by laying the thermometer on the roof surface of 145*F... the root zone temps would be somewhat cooler.. butthe wind blowing across the roof onto the plant I'm sure was all of the 145*.. kind of like a convection oven enviornment.. not real hospitable one might think.. but these are a Central American plant.. but this is where I have available to grow them.. NYC is zone 7 they say.. my roof with it's exposure to winter winds unobstructed off the harbor I feel is zone 5 for me.. and the summer on the hot roof I consider about zone 14.. although I don't know wherre it's 145 * on a regular basis so there's nowhere for me to compare it to.... I feed regularly... a bloom booster. ferterlizer.. seaweed extract and spray-n-grow regularly.. as a foliar spray.. and try to water a few times a day.. when the drip irrigation is up and running ...it's watered four times a day for 10 minutes.. on a 2 GPH drip... I'm starting a messenger regimin today.. hopefully it will make it lees attractive to the cats and other insects.. the pests like my brugs best of all and this one particularly is their favorite.. so I can battle them here and not through out the garden...
KELL... yes it is tremendeously fragerant... perhaps the strongest of my dozen or so Brugs.. lovely and there is never too sweet for my taste.. hope this might be helpful and something to consider for other growers success...
This is another photo of Snowbank... do so love the lightest coloration of the pink Gordon

WoW! Great pic's Gordon and such a lovely Angel....great job and an excellent idea about placing the pot on the cement drive or porch for bottem heat. Thanks!

Yes.. Brug Addict.. it's a method that has workd wonders for me on just about everything.. the plumerias have gone from seed to flowering in 9 months..unheard of times for them.. at first Iwas very carefud and did everything imagineable to keep them off the hot roof.. lifts on the post .. thick padding under the saucers.. then I started with my HOT peppers keeping them right on the hot roof.. trying to aggrivate them to greater heat in the fruit.. but they didn't suffer at all and produced great leaf growth as well as plenty of fruit... so I started with other plants..being less concerned with the heat and concentrated on keepting them moist after drying out so fast.. they can go from wet to dry a few times a day... kind of like cramming in a few days cycleing into one... no where in this country are the soil temps as high as the central /south american temps they developed in.. and it seems to make a great diffrence... in everything... leaf growth ..stalk development.. flower production.. I'm sold on my use of what I'd thought was a detrement to them...
Cypress Gardens pictured
Gordon

But then everything does well with the bottom heat... not too shabby for growing on in containers..Gordon

Beautiful pictures.

The blooms are beautiful. They look different from Mayas. Isnt Snowbank a Maya clon?
My Snowbank has grown quite well in my climate and has now a small Y.

I'll bet it is quite a job getting all the potting soil to the roof. Do you have to carry your water too? You sure have some nice plants up there.

Great looking plants, GondonHawk.

Thanks for the complements All... More a blooming today... we'll post them...
BRUGIE... yes alot of work carrying everything up there... the wood for the planters and fence I think I had boomed up... but every last bit of everything else came up on my back... beatten like a rented mule .. Glad to have discovered a good accupuncturist... well The water lines I continued up from below.. there's hot and cold water and mixed for the hose.. this is often run through a drip irrigation setup for the main planters and many of the loose ones inside.. there is a seperate misting/ feeding line run about also.. that I can have mist if I wish.. but I usually just feed with the watering.. or the solo sprayr.. Getting the tender and tropicals
[ with plant/soil/and pot ] up and down in the spring/fall is more difficult than lugging the soil up once..now that some of the pots are so big.. Cypress Gardens weighs in at about 120 lbs plenty of weight to carry up and down on the ladder..
Texas Pink in Bloom

Where do you take them to? My gosh, you must have a greenhouse someplace or an awfully big apartment to keep them in. I couldn't do it. One set of steps is too much for me.

HA HA HA no Brugie.. no greenhouse now... I've built a few and assembled some kits for them.. but none here.. a grower did mention with the new oil prices mmany might be agreeable to renting out space in them for the winter to help defray the cost of heating for them.. but it's 4 flight to the street and only one to the roof.. so that alone has me thinking I'll just live with them again this winter.. it is full and no way to fight to a window with all of everything in the way.. last year I did make up a series of marble covered dollies to help move them about and to keep spotting off the new Brizilian Cherry floor I laid down all over.. but everything is bigger every year.. and of corse more of them as time goes by.. but keeping them alive and blooming all around me has worked for so many years.. and I enjoy them so it would be hard to have them away in a greenhouse.. some inside pictures.. from last spring before going out..
Oh you can see little snowbank [ the same plant as is in the first picture of this post ] the first of april as the little cutting on the left of the window sill..
Gordon

I hope I have a few windows to look out this winter. You have a lot of work to do before the snow flies. Hope we don't have an early winter.

HA HA HA it's all a bunch of work... Brugie... But I love being fit and able to do so.. and pleased it's directed and concentrated in GODS Garden.. Gordon
who pleases himself working like a rented mule..