I finally got my HG bloom!

Thank you, David!!! Ok, finally may be pushing it a little bit, since I got it as a rooted cutting last fall. I know that lots of people have kept it for more than a year before seeing a bloom, but it kept on putting on buds & dropping them, so it's felt like a long time! Now I'm torn, I want to rip it up to get the pollen & put some on it, but the only other bud just fell off today. If I tear it up, I might not ever see another one. On the other hand, if I don't tear it up, I might not ever get another chance! Decisions, decisions!!

You are one lucky gal. I've had mine 4 yrs. have never seen it bloom, saw lots of buds............fall!

What a pretty color, & bloom!

Wow, Ronna, it must like you! Good gal :!
I say, take the pollen and put it on something that stays, lol!

I've read so much that they don't like to be moved, don't like to be repotted, etc. I put it in a 5 gallon pot early in the summer, and put it in a place where it would be partly shaded by bigger plants, and never moved it all summer. It dropped bud after bud after bud, but this one stayed on. I was so afraid that it would fall when I moved everything to the basement, I didn't get my hopes up until it started getting color on it. The other bud was almost ready to split when it fell off today.

Wow! I never got a Y,that sure is a good looking bloom.

Wow that's sooo pretty
thanks for that pretty Pic

Way to go, Ronna! I'm happy you got tot see a bloom so soon!!!

Congrats. It smells great, doesn't it?

You are now a member of the elite club! Congrats! Mine keep falling off! Sure is a pretty flower.

Way to go Ronna! It's such a pretty color. I didn't bring my HG in this winter. Mine never even got buds- LOL... I had it for two years.

Congratulations Ronna!! I let mine go, it is history!!

Cool!! Congratulations!!!

Congrats Ronna. She's beautiful.

Congrats, Ronna.

Thanks, y'all! I bit the bullet & dissected it today, the 'may never see another one' thought won out. It had anthers with pollen on some of them, but no stigma.

Congratulations, Ronna! Very nice! It almost looks like this plant does not want to reproduce.

Dat, mine is a piece of yours from last winter. It has made probably 50 buds. I have 5 left. Still hoping.......

Thank you for letting me try it.

Kay

Oh BOO!! Ronna. No fair!

How awesome
I'm just holding on to mine to see if it EVER opens a bloom
All my buds have fallen off

Pretty sure I don't want to use it for breeding
I mean,do I want to use a brug which has this much trouble blooming?What if the bud dropping trait is passed on.....
The color is awesome but ,heck, Creamsickle gets almost the same color at times so it would be a better choice I think,I blooms easy and is easy to grow

So I keep it as a challenge.......kind of stupid on my part ....

oooooh noooooo, you must have wanted that pollen REALLY bad.

OK, I've got a Butterfly getting ready to open in the gh, nothing else blooming or even close. If I wanted to keep the BF pollen, how would I do it. Is there a 'primer' somewhere on harvesting pollen?

Don't forget Double Peach. A pretty good bloomer, the blooms last, and she smells awesome.

I love Creamsickle, it blooms easily, smells wonderful, and has rooted easily for me so far. I don't have Double Peach, but it looks terrific! I didn't have high hopes for HG, but had to keep watching it, since it kept on making buds. I have 3 anthers that definitely have pollen, and another one that might. I'll put some on Ecuador Pink, not sure what else to use it on.

Linda, you don't usually have to dissect a flower to get the pollen. I did this time because it was a triple flower with both of the inner skirts stuffed up inside the outer one. I started out trying to gently unstuff it, but it didn't work, so I finally just went for it! Normally you can tip the flower up, stick tweezers inside and pull out each anther one at a time.

Brugie!! That double peach is gorgeous

My double peach bloomed in the GH but I missed it
Found the dried up flowers...
really want to see the next flush

Thanks Blaine. It smells great too. Gosh Karyn, it's too bad you missed this one. She smells so good and is pretty darned flashy too.

Ronna, that is certianly a pretty one, worth waiting for.
Brugie that looks more orange than peach. When ya cutting THAT one back??? I'd like to trade my right arm. LOL!
Bj

Congrats Ronna . . very few of us have seen this one bloom. I just disposed of mine several weeks ago after 3 years. I would get buds but they would all fall of time and time again.

I think the Double Peach is a very pretty flower and it does perform well as Shirley said.

Congratulations!

Since my HG NEVER bloomed in 2 yrs either, I cut that Brug back! I mean I really cut it back!! Now it's about 1ft. above the soil line. Next step....compost here it comes!!!

I have to say I was impressed by the 3 blooms I saw on mine last week. All 3 skirts dropped and they all had great color and I have only been growing it for 2 years come March.
I did have pollen in all the blooms but that was the only reproductive parts that fully developed in any of them.

After reading this thread I'm sure glad I didn't get the winning bid on eBay for the HG (Herrenhauser Garten ).

Brugie I love the color on your Double Peach. Do you still have it?

Judy

Wow.. that double peach is Great!! beautiful! The HG was nice also but all that work seems daunting

Oh, Ronna, bless your heart, what a disappointment, but, you got a beautiful bloom and a beautiful photo, I hope she blooms again for you really soon, she is sooooo pretty, I love the color and shape...

Judy, I still have it. She has some pretty nasty looking leaves right now, but many of my brugs are rather torn up from winds.

Very pretty !! I finally got blooms off mine last year, so I decided to give it another try this year.

What beatifull colors on those blooms, I am enviouse.




Doris

Very pretty photo and flower.

I finally got two gorgeous flowers on HG last fall, and have another just about to open.....probably tomorrow. If you have the time and patience, it's worth the wait.

Wow!!! Way to go Kay! Please send a photo and good luckl!!!

Dang! She bloomed while I was out of town and I didn't get to see it! The two I got last fall WERE worth all the waiting.

Congrats Kay. Hope it blooms again soon so you can see them