Here is a Whiskers X L'Amour seedling that I had high hopes for, but it couldn't take the heat and we didn't even get hot this year. I kept a cutting and will grow it one more year.
New Seedling...
An inside the bloom picture.
I like the whiskers on it Shirley, but like you , I have to make sure what I can get can handle our heat. We also had a cool summer this year. We only got up to 102 twice. But it isn't unusual for us to be around 107 several times during the summer.
Shirley, It's lovely. Such a delicate color, was it darker in the heat (although wilted)?
Patricia, we only went over 90 three times all summer and then it was only 92 or 93 degrees. Very unusual for us.
Pretty one. I have quite a few different Wh x and B x Wh seedlings.
We never reached 90 this summer.
This was just a bad year in lots of places, so now I'm through worrying about it and will concentrate on having a good year next year. At least you had some great looking blooms this year Gloria. We enjoyed your pictures.
Brugie...this bloom looks lovely to me! I guess with so many to choose from, it would have to be perfect in all ways...it would kill me to compost it though!
Shirley, do you remember when we first started, we thought every bloom was beautiful and smelled Heavenly. now, they need long tendrils, beautiful color, smell good, plus withstanding bad weather, oh, forgot.......bugs can't like them!.
Thank you for the compliment on pics. I have lots with buds, have not seen bloom before, if the dang weather stays warm for just a couple more weeks.
I hope it will stay warm, but all good things come to an end and I'm afraid the weather won't hold much longer. I still have one brug that needs to be dug. It's nasty here today, but it looks like after one night down at 33 degrees, we will have lows in the low to mid forties again.
Boy, you said a mouthful Shirley!! We've had fierce wind, with rain today and my huge, unknown, first brug lost about 6 limbs, of course the tallest ones, that were all broken and crushed. The brug will live but it will never look the same this year. Oh, how I wish I had taken in a couple of the loooong shoots, I was going for a tree the height of Kell's, in the photo with her hubby, and I had two that I was going to cut when the rain stops. Oh, well. My only tree, recently potted, and staked (thanks, Monika) did not break, but the canopy looks like a rat's nest and all my brugs took and are taking a terrible beating with lots of lost buds, shreaded leafs, etc, and I was expecting a huge flush. The winds are picking up and I'm wondering if trash sacks, loosely tied might help??? Any other suggestions???
Very pretty Brugie. I wonder if it will darken in the summer. I am getting some whites now. LOL
Sherry, in bad storms I lay my brugs down on their sides if they are in pots.
Ummm - Ummmm , I really like your new fower brugie.
This is one of Susie's crosses. I'm still looking for that nice big yellow, not gold, flower. I like this flower, but it isn't that great yellow that I still want. :(
Thanks, Kell, I only have a few in pots, that i recently staked, seedlings and my one tree, next time, you can bet I will lay them down, I should have asked while it was going on - those in the ground were dead ducks, with regard to the great Dermott flush of 2004, the ground is covered with buds and the remaining brugs were left with with ripped, torn, limp leaves. We received 9 inches of rain, one day before the wind storm, the amount of rain and the kind of wind was unusual for this time of the year. I could not believe my eyes when I viewed the damage and the limp leaves on at least one half of my brugs. I muddled about it way too long, then, gong, it hit me between the eyes, this dumbo thought limp leaves had always meant they need water. I thought 9 inches of SLOW rain and they need water, impossible, and, all of a sudden, I ran to the hose and started filling the green buckets - that bleeping wind stripped my brugs of moisture, even those in the ground, despite the 9 inch, soaking rain. Who knew??!! All afternoon, I've been humming 'oh, what a fool am I', whew...
I think she is a lovely color. LOVE her looong tendrils! What do they measure out to be?
Shirley, they aren't nearly as long as that other one I posted a while back, but the bloom isn't as big either. Just a nice size and shape. I don't measure tendrils unless someone asks and now I don't have a bloom out there to put a ruler to. LOL!
Shirley what were you hoping to get out of her? She has a beautiful shape and nice tendrils. Can't believe a brug part whiskers & L'Amour can't take the heat. L'Amour loved my heat and humidity. She was blooming when the others weren't and whiskers alway thrives here too.
I'm sorry to hear about your bloom! :~(
It's okay.
I grew the seeds not knowing what to expect. I'm still in the "want a nice yellow" mode. This one is quite pale looking and the blooms would melt some during the day. I didn't get real good results with Whiskers in the heat either. L'Amour does do well for me, but did even better in half day shade. Maybe this one picked up some of the lesser genes from Whiskers and/or L'Amour I don't become overly concerned with the way they bloom until I've seen them bloom a few times. Next year will tell the story for this one. I had several out there that were similar, but this was the best one. Just knowing it made the cut for one more year means I feel it has some potential.
I hope next year it does better because it is a pretty bloom but I am like you, I would like to see a very pretty yellow. If it did not do well for you then it would never make it here in the gulf coast area of Texas with our heat and humidity.
Donna, I wish Whiskers did good for me but it does not. I suppose because I am in a warmer zone than you are. It was never a heavy bloomer for me.
I love it, and I really like the calyx, and tendrils. Maybe next year she will suprise you with knock your socks off yellow.