yay, a flower bud opened on my inca queen. i'm having trouble keeping the buds on my sangs from drying up and falling off. even though we've been having lots of cool weather and rain, i think they've been getting too much sun inbetween.
inca queen
a closeup
Beautiful bloom. I wish I could grow the Sangs.
Love it ... it is beautiful!
Bravo!
That is really striking!
I love the sanguineas, but it may be too warm here in the summer to do one justice.
One of these days, maybe, just maybe...........
Beautiful bloom. Can't get them to grow and bloom here.
mmqc, your sanguinea is absolutely gorgeous! I've never tried but one day I would like to. Does it have a great aroma?
Julie
mmqc, beautiful brug and great photo. Thanks for posting, donna
Very pretty. Just can't grow them here.
that is lovely, I have a seedling growing, not sure it will make here though
I LOVE this color! Great picture.
Beautiful bloom. I can't grow them either, the ones I had kept dropping buds and I never did see them flower.
Those are awesome! I've got a few seeds. I want to start them this weekend.
:) Donna
Beautiful bloom I guess your pictures will have to do it for me, they just don't want anything to do with Florida. I have two more started..I started them from seed in September they are about two feet tall, now I did this part before..as soon as Floride warms up the plant dies. But I had to try it one more time. After this I'll keep looking at yours.
Hi Mary! I was just talking aobu tyou yesterday! So you have a bloom on your Inca Queen. A very nice one too! I love it. Did you get this from Kartuz?
Too bad about your sangs. Maybe it has been too wet. You get pretty hot in San Jose, don't you?
I keep peeping back at this one *sigh* Oh the beauty, it's stunning!
mmqc, That is beautiful. Is it in the Sang family? I had the impression it wasn't? I have some of the red Sang seeds to plant. We have a short season but what we have gets pretty hot. Where did you get the Inca Queen? Is it as fussy as the Sangs?
Jeanette
Very pretty! congrats!!!
Very pretty!! Lucky you!
Bonnie
Love your Inca Queen sang mmqc...... Pretty deep color is nice.
I looked up your weather pattern and the temps lately seem to be OK , wonder why your buds are dropping off?
It could be that the nights are a wee bit too cool ?
They are such tempermental angels but worth it if you like something unusual.
Personally I was disappointed to find them so small and devoid of any fragrance tho.
but I will continue to have them on the side anyway.
Thanks for sharing ;-)
Oh my, that "Inca Queen" has made the scene, at least in the Brug world! She's a real looker! Congrats!!
When I was a young girl, I remember a flowering vine (I think) that had blossoms that were almost identical. I wonder if it might be the same plant. I recently went back to the place where I remember seeing it, but the area is now all concrete with stores where the jungle garden used to be, so I guess I'll never know...
Sherry this is a brugmansia tree. You probably are thinking of a trumpet vine of some kind.
Yeah, we have alot of those vines you speak of around these parts. But I see your point in how they resemble the sangs.
Interesting, and you are in my zone, BrugAddict. Yeah, Scoot, I'm sure it's probably a vine, but it did grow big, as if a tree shrub, but the leaves were much smaller, but the flowers were very similar, I remember them vividly being 'striped', yellow stripes, on orange/red flowers...
There's some across the dirt road that come out during the summer. When it does, I'll take some shots of them. They grow all on the fences wild here. If it's what I'm thinking it is. Someone told me once what the name of it was but my memory isn't as good as it used to be.
Beautiful bloom i anm not able to get them to grow here in upstate N.Y. Bob
So I am confused. There is a vine that has huge blooms like a sang??? OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I want to see pictures. Anyone have the name?
beautiful
Kell, I don't know if I ever heard the name of it, but I live in areas where lots of stuff grows wild, datura, dogwood, daffodils, morning glories, day lilly, iris, wisteria - in fact the purple wisteria is to my area (in the spring) what kudzu is to Mississippi. It is just amazing.
SherryLike, are you thinking of Stictocardia beraviensis? See this link: http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/469019/
Oh, Clare, I wish that was the one, it is beautiful!! The leaves on the plant I remember are smaller, very green and hard, not soft like a begonia. Also, the blooms turned down and I recall recurve, with yellow stripes on a red/orange flower. My pal Becky says she thinks I'm talking about some sort of datura, but I'm not positive I've ever seen a datura in bloom. I tried to plant some from seed last year and it was a terrible failure...
Claire, I just looked at another picture of one of your vines, Trumpet Vine, and I think that is VERY close, the leaves look identical, we used to think it was poison ivy, but the flower was, as I said, striped yellow, and red/orange blossom, a long tubular blossom, that you had to turn up to see the inside and it had recurve and about 5 points, no tendrils...
How long were the blooms Sherry?
I may have to move to Arkansas!!! My absolute favorite blooming thing is wisteria!
I hate to discourage you Kell, but the wisteria blooms such a short time that you could probably come in for a weekend and catch the best of the blooms. The blooms are very long and the plants are very old. They line the two lane highway, both sides, from my town to the next town about 20 miles away, and they are all through my town and that town. They go all the way up very old oak trees, 30, 40 feet high. My aunt and I travel the road as often as possible when they are in bloom, starting when the dogwood (also grows wild) is in bloom at Easter and the red bud trees which also grow wild. It is very beautiful and Mississippi and Louisiana have areas where all of it grows wild too. My hubby, the historian, says every place the wisteria grows is or was the site of an old home place, and often there is a chimney, a fence, a well or part of an old building still remaining...where did wisteria originate, China???
I do not know. Though they have Japanese wisteria also. I should check my Valder book. I expect many great pictures this spring, Sherry! Do not let me down!
Sherry, I think you are right that you are remembering some sort of trumpet vine.
Kell, your double wisteria is so so very beautiful. I've never seen a more beautiful picture. Your picture belongs in Peter Valder's book! I love wisteria too. My white one is blooming now.
So delicate a flower, Clare! I can't wait till mine bloom. Sadly, a great pink died last year mid bloom. Just got up and died. The flowers and emerging leaves dried up. I saw a huge one 4 blocks over do the exact same thing. I now live in dread my others will do the same. I have no idea what caused it.
Here is my pink, the day before she died.
