Sunday brugs

I am finally getting lots of pretty flowers!!

Here is red. You may think she is pretty light but for early March, she is dark!! Compare to L'Amour and Rothkirch also taken today!

I have about 30 L'Amour bloooms. The later ones are much prettier!

And Big Yella, is orange!! LOL

Glory's Jesse Noel, always a favorite here.

I have a lot of Arborea blooms also. I am not a big fan of brug frangrance, but I would be so happy to have Arborea's bottled and be able to smell it on demand!

Golden Lady is looking a bit green, maybe for St. Patrick's Day!

And Rothkirch, always a pink, puffy cloud..

Oh My G..

How do you achieve that "studio" look? I would like to do that with my English Bulldog Puppies.

Judy

Beautiful kell...all of them!
Looks like your brug season has begun...Good for you!
Will look forward to seeing more and more!!

Margie

LOL Margie, the plants might still be scuffy but the flowers are starting to look normal after some weird winter ones!! And the scent of Arborea is back!!

Judy, my camera does it, I take them at night and the flash must not be that good. I know Barb uses a black velvet board behind her subjects and she gets the same look.

Red is still a beauty Kell. I am so glad you are getting to see all these blooms before you go back east. When are you leaving?

Red is truly going to be one incredible brug. Wonderful shots Kell

Just gorgeous, all of them.
Jackie

Ok, I'm jealous, those are georgious brugs, And speaking of that Studio look, I"m a real amatuer on taking pictures, took this one and look how it turned out, just took it in the dark, with the special setting on the flash to take pics in the dark and it turned out beautiful, it's that triple yellow datura, didn't mean to take over the forum here with other pics, but it can be done by even someone as dumb as me LOL

Kell - gorgeous flowers...and Kathy Ann....that is one beautimous Datura flower!!!

Ah...envy is a sin but I just can't help it!!!!

Carol

I could say I am holding my breath for mine to bloom like that but afraid I can't hold my breath that long, they are incredable as usual kell

Wow Kell, they look great. I'm just starting to get flowers. My L'Amour is darker than yours but you've got more flowers than I do.

They all look great!! Keeps me going until I get blooms! Red sure is dark already!!

Oh Kell, as usual you have taken my mind to another place that is wonderful, a land of Brugs. I am fairly new to Brugs and I am curious about where to find some of these species. I am in love with Glory's Jess Noel. I just started last year and am addicted, I have Halo Peach, CG, Equador Pink, A couple of white unknown and then I see all your lovely ones and want more .

thinkdirt, that's the way it starts, then you want more and more until YOU WANT THEM ALLLLLL. Two years ago I had 1. Counting seedlings, I'm up to about 200. Buying fertilizer, potting soil and chemicals gets expensive too. But when you see some of the blooms posted here, and Kell certainly does post some glorious sights, it just 'adds fuel to the fire'.

Kell as always everything is just beautiful.

Kathy, what camera do you have and what setting did you use? I am still using my old canon instead of my new Olympus because I can't figure out how to take pics at night. It has such a bright flash. I love my night time walks around the garden with my camera. The fragrance is strong then and I can tell which ones I really do like. It is quiet and I do not have the nagging feeling I should put the camera down and start to water or plant. It is goof off time free of guilt.

Thanks all. I have been such a glutton for brugs. I am now going in reverse. I am tossing them left and right. Or I should be. I am working up to it. LOL! My husband murdered a huge versi peach yesterday. He had such a good time. I had pangs of misery. I am only keeping some special ones for breeding and then tons of seedlings. I am out of room and they are starting to make me nuts. I think you want them all until your eye can differentiate between them. They really have different looks.

LMAO Ihughes, if I ever get to 200 just shoot me. I have to house these and my Jasmines in the house over winter as my 2 GH really are not large enough to house them, They took over a spare bedroom until 2 weeks ago and then had to hit the basement because our daughter and grandson moved home, come to think of it I should have put them in the basement LOL

Kell if your hubby is tossing out your brugs, why not toss them to the Ohio area, I have a huge trash can LOL.

Kell I have the Olympus D-395 and I had it set on night flash, it's a bright flash for taking pictures when the back ground is almost or near black. I love the camera, since i've gone through 3 of them so far, (getting them wet), I can't afford a very expensive one, only thing I don't like I can't take good pictures of something like a bird far off cause it doesn't have a good zoom on it. but it takes great pics and prints off beautiful pictures too.

course the printing means having a good printer too I have the hp photosmart 7660

"My husband murdered a huge versi peach yesterday. He had such a good time. I had pangs of misery"

How sad...................

kell...he was doing it for you though, right? You don't want members to think you have a husband that goes around chopping down your brugs! Right!!! Not that you still wouldn't be sad to see it go.

Kathy_Ann, so it is a birght flash but it does not light up the background? My Olympus is so bright you can see everything I am trying to hide! LOL. I want one that keeps the background black!! That way you all think I have a neat yard. LOL

Oh yes Marige, my husband is actually fantastic. I told him to get rid of it, for I still have a hard time doing the deed. He loves doing it. He hates brugs. And I do not blame him. He even has some in his bathroom. He can't get away from them. He is such a good guy. I have been to the East coast for almost 5 months total in the 18 months my father has been dead. For all those months, my husband watered all my plants.

Sometimes I was gone a month in the heat of the summer and he had to water every day, 2 to 3 hours at a time. So I have no complaints, LOL but he does!!!! He rarely loses any too. Last month he did lose some 6 packs but they were so small and all needed to be transplanted. He even tried to do that for me. He is so nice. He often says to me on weekends how did he end up doing my hobby. I am the one that is nuts. Certifiable.

I personally do not like the looks of a versi. They are droopy. I do not like EPs either. I do not like to see the long skinny necks, they remind me of plucked chickens hanging up in Chinatown. If the bloom faces out, I find that attractive for they look like happy faces. But if they have that chicken neck and then they just hang straight down with no umph........... and then they are not even dark pink............... well that is strike 3 in my book!! LOL

kell...yes, your husband sounds like a "dream" !!! His love for you shows, especially when he doesn't like the flower....to take care of your plants like that for you. He is a keeper!!! :-)))

My camera has the infra red, that lights up the subject and then a flash goes off when it is dark....it still keeps the background dark though...as in the photo attached...

Kell, I'd hav eto check the book to see if mine is infra red, I don't think it is, I've taken pictures before at night, on the beach when they were pickingup crabs, LOL and it only lit up the subjects and the back ground stayed black. If the background is black then it will stay black, and the bright flash will pick up the subject, that's the way my camara does, you'd have to take th epicture in the dark though like I did, it wasn't completely dark when I took that triple yellow datura pic, but it turned out that way in teh picture, i'm going to have to go practice now taking pics in the dark seeing what I come up with LOL

That picture of the datura was a scanned picture, the actual picture you can see some of the rest of the plant and a little back ground of some others.

I just went out and took these pics in pitch black, had to hold the flashlight on the plant to make sure I had the camera in the right place, then turned off the flashlight and took the pic, it does have some other back ground subjects in there, but it did do a pretty good job of getting a dark back ground.

snowbank brug

I bet if I put it where there was no plants beside or behind it it woul d have a completely black back ground.

kathy

Your plant is gorgeous kathy...which one is it?

that's snowbank

Kell I love the color of this one. It's so pouffy too.

Kell how can you even mention throwing out Brugs when we all have empty trash cans *S*
A couple of weeks ago I purchased Butterfly on eBay from a very reliable seller, Brenda Delph (Seedsprout) it is 24" tall, and this morning I found two very small buds growing. WHEEEEE

Congrats, Doris. You'll love your Butterfly blooms.