Being new and also living in a zone that requires winter protection, space is and will become more of an issue. Looking at my Ollie and White suavelons, I cant tell much of a difference between the two so I am trying to decide whether to keep both or neither. Can any of you experts lend any advice on these two?
charlotte
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Dump them both! LOL
When you only have a few it is somewhat hard to know what you like :)
I received these two in trade as cuttings this summer. They both look similar, have no fragrance and just dont do anything special as I can see. Guess I'm answering my own questions arent I ?
Kell, I take it these are not two of your favs, can you tell me why you dont care for them?
I think Ollie has some Whiskers genes in it. Could be wrong. The white suave would not last here and I'm not sure about Ollie. I had an Ollie cross one time and it didn't survive the cut. Like Tonny said. If you like them, you keep them. You don't have to listen to us. I remember the time that I thought Frosty Pink was just about the best thing since Chocolate. Now, I like chocolate better.
Well, Chocolate is kinda hard to beat, isnt it .....
I agree with what you have already been told. I think each of us have to try different brugs and see which ones do good for us and if we like their qualities. For example I have an Isabella that I have had for a long time. Where I live it blooms from spring until winter even in the hottest summer months. I will probably always have this one because it is and older one that does so well for me. Others that have it have not got the continuous blooms I have. That is why it is important for you to make your on evaluations on what you like. I really love fragrances in the brugs and Isabella lacks in it for me but because there is almost constant blooms, I keep it.
I find them without any charm! The first year you collect all the brugs you can and grow any seeds you are given. It is an educational process. Then you start to develop your own taste. I like an entertaining brug.
You nailed it, Kell, I like an entertaining brug too and I'm amazed that one of my 'unknowns', which was labeled as 'white' is, unbelievably, to me anyway, pink and, oh, so healthy and big/beautiful, but not much fragrance. Being pink, IMO (maybe yours too, LOL) is a plus, and, since I'm a newbie, and all my space is not filled, I'll give it a chance....but, should a fragrant pink come my way, this one will be gone, ya know??!!
I second both Shirley and Kell on that one :)
Keep those that you like best and yes, it is an educational process, where you get more and more selective and probably end up making your own crosses, as the hybrids available no longer satisfiy your ideals of a dream-brugmansia :D
However, Lene and I still have a passion for white flowers. B. suaveolens 'White - a hybrid, that has flourished in the US maybe for ages - are blooming here right now and its beauty still captures me. I named a few white-flowered hybrids as well, such as 'Simplicity', 'Fairy Queen', 'Anny Forever' and 'Lillith'. One, that has heavy suaveolens and versicolor influence still remain to have a name and this one I fell for this summer. It is 'Evening Glow'
Kell love pink colors for one thing and I saw for the first time this year a dark, throughoutly colored double pink and was not utterly impressed, but have my passion for white flowers. So, you see, we are all different in our taste :)
Charlotte, there are so many brugs out there. Last summer I was so in love with Cupid's Blush. I just HAD to have it. And now that I have seen it bloom....I'm am so 'not impressed with it'. Don't get me wrong....it's pretty, but now what I'm looking for in a brug bloom. Even though I do love pinks....any color will 'light my fire' if it has the qualities that I am looking for. You just need to see more in bloom and then you will understand! There will be so many cuttings available to you here in the next few weeks that you'll wonder what you're going to do with all of them come next year!
I really like whites also. I always have a few around. But white suavs and white versi's are not on my list! Tonny, didn't you have a great white aurea last year?
I think all of the above advice is quite valid. I would add that how a brug does for you depends a lot on where you are located. For example, Halo Peach, while beautiful in N. C., totally refused to open here. It went into the burn heap.
Janet Reno is a non-stop bloomer and grower here, while Charles Grimaldi (I think one of her parents) has had only three flowers all season. Yet Janet Reno will not bloom for my friend, who is a brug expert, in CA.
Suaveolens white is also one of my very favorites. It is very simple and delicate looking with a very slight suggestion of a ruffle. To me that is prettier than an over-stuffed double.
Butterfly, as wonderful as she is as a pollinator, is a little thick skinned and not very dainty-looking here. We are hot and steamy, though she is beautiful where the weather is a little kinder.
So, the key is, try a lot of them, then learn to say "no" to the ones that don't really do anything special to YOU.
After checking a picture of Ollie, I think I was thinking of something else. Maybe the cross that Glory had sent to me, Ollie X Whiskers.