US has Double Pink

Congratulations Shirley and Monika! It's beautiful, and it's name is just perfect! :)

I can't wait to see the picture of your other double Shirley. You deserve this after the summer you and your brugs have had.

What a wonderful tribute to Monika....Great name!!!

Perfect name.... very fitting!!! Thank you Monika for making this possible. Congratulations!!!

I'm glad you all like the name. I did ask Monika if I could name it after her. So far, my next double isn't showing any color yet. Still looks the color it was before it came down out of the calyx....that yellowish color. I keep saying, maybe tomorrow, but maybe tomorrow will be the day this time.

And if it's another gorgeous double pink what are you going to name it? I seem to remember Gott Morr being mentioned? LOL

LOL!! I'm not too cracked up about that one, Liz. We will have to put our thinking caps on again if it happens.

Love the name, Shirley. It's very fitting for such a special Brug from such a special Lady.

Its the perfect name!

Congrats to you and Monika, Shirley. She is a beaut! I cannot think of anyone better than you and Monika to make this special brug. She is very very pretty.

Even though, I feel a little embarassed having the flower named after me, on the other hand, I am all tickled Pink LOL!
But I would like to thank you all of choosing my name for Brugies beautiful flower and I am hoping, that there will be more beauties coming out of all the seeds.

I am so happy for both of you wonderful ladies. A great name for a very beautiful flower.

Heavens to Monika!!!! I've been AWOL and I could not believe my eyes when I tuned in, WOW!!! My first thought was that someone had been playing with PhotoShop. When I realized it was true, and that Shirley and Monika were cohorts in 'crime', I realized that I'm one lucky girl to be involved in this 'sport', when one of the most important brugs of this century and decade is introduced!! A special thanks to Monika and Shirley and all others who were involved. I've never seen any double in person, now there is a wonderful US pink double and I look forward to the day that it will be available for all of our gardens. Many congrats, it's more beautiful than I ever would have imagined!! SherryLike

Shirley, I'm so glad it happened to you!!

Wow she is a beauty. I got teary eyed just reading this thread, especially after the naming of it....An elegant, dainty, beautiful double pink brug named 'Monika', so fitting. The first in the US of A!! Thank you Monika for all your efforts in producing the first pink double cross and Brugie for growing it out in the USA. Congrats to you both! I'm tickled doubley PINK!!!! lol

Oh My.... What a Beautiful...Beautiful flower !!!!! I am so thrilled for the two of you. Let me add that.....This couldn't have happened to two nicer ladies. :) :)
Monika and Shirley...you two are the embodiment of Sincere Generosity and deserve any and all the praise you see in these posts. No room for embarassment regarding this terriffic accomplishnent. Your devotion to the Brugmansia cultivar along with your Unselfish Willingness to share your seeds, plants and knowledge with others about this plant are wonderful qualities rarely witnessed in 'brug' circles these days.

"THANK YOU" to Both of you for making "MONIKA"... the first American Double Pink... a reality !

Brugie, that is simply beautiful.

Ok now tell me how you did it ?????? Which crosses do you use to make a double??? I'm serious LOL! I'm curious, I hope I didnt miss that, I got so excited! hehehe Seriously what do you cross together to get a double? Enquiring minds want to LEARN?? lol

sHIRLEY TO YOU AND MONIKA CONGRATS I LOVE THE PINKS I TOLD MONIKA ONCE I WASENVIOUS BECAUSE IN EUROPE THEY SEEMED TO HAVE MORE VARIETIES. THANKS FOR BRINGING THEM TO THE USA. BOB

Drummat..... I second that Emotion!!

Congratulations Shirley and Monika!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ivan keep me from seeing this until today, we just got power back. It is absolutely beautiful and could not have happened to a nicer person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hummer glad you all are safe, AL took a beatin' where you are!

Thanks to you all. Monika and I are both happy that you like the new double pink and I think all of us are thankful that Monika shared seeds and sent some special seeds for doubles to the USA. Watch out...there may be more to come soon. LOL!

I will be here waiting and watching for sure!!

Hummernut, glad you're safe. Ivan is supposed to make a circle here and stall. They say it's waiting for the next one to come in.

beautiful Monika and shirley!!!! Nothing else need to be said. Monika is a beauty-also a nice lady.!!

A perfect name for a perfect brug. It is so beautiful.

I certainly agree.......a fitting tribute to a very generous Lady!!

Shirley & Monika what a beautiful double
pink & you couldn't have given it a
better name,If you come up another color
& can't find a name!!! Call the next one
Brugie because even if it takes another
25 years Brugie... you will still be
here & tending that beautiful garden of
flowers.

Thanks everyone. It is always fun to grow from seed. The element of surprise is worth all the time and effort. Jerry, I hope you aren't having storms up your way. It doesn't look good between here and DesMoines.

Perfectly chosen name, Shirley :) I applaud you 2 once again....

Thanks T. Did you guys get all the mess cleaned up after the storms? Sure hope so. Sounded kind of bad.

Yea, but I don't know how you've been able to get thru all those storms this year with all the damage. Just walking around with Eva, helping pick up pieces of all her hard work was disheartening.

I can't even imagine having some of your storms. :(

Such a special name for a special brug. I am so glad that as the years go by, Monika will always be remembered as the one that was not only generous, but giving and kind-hearted and cared enough to help us get this first double pink in the U.S. Thank you for letting Brugie name this brug in honor of you. In years to come, the brug Monika will be in many of our yards and I hope as we stroll through our gardens that none of us will forget the true lady, Monika who made it possible for us in the U.S. in the year 2004.

Shirley, you worked hard to bring this about also. I know your weather this summer has not been conducive to growing brugs but you did it anyway. Under these conditions, the hours of care you put into growing seeds and plants shows your true dedication.

that is an awsome brug, please put down my name,I am already in line for seeds *LOL*

Thanks Frannie. Tomorrow our temps are going to be near 90 degrees again, but only for one day.
Kareoke....seeds won't come true. The only way to get the exact same brug is from cuttings. Those won't be available until next year, probably. I'm glad you like it.

I assumed we would get the exact same brug from seeds - boy, do I have lots to learn!! Thanks for cluing me in Brugie!!!!

Bumping so Shirley & Monikas' "girls" could spend a little time together today...lol

Wow! & "DOUBLE WOW"!
Beautiful flower
Great name!
Such dedication you two, congrats!

I still can't get over it. What a thril, and THE perfect name. I am so proud for both of you dedicated ladies. LindaSC

Brugie I realized that when I read that these brugs have different flushes, and at different times, I am getting so anxiouse to get a flowering one myself but mine are only little seedlings right now.