This is a seedling from last year whose working name was 'Swiss Meringue'. Last year, she was a delicate cream with a peach edge. This is what she looks likes now. We'll see if she puts on any color later in the year, but if this is all she gives me, she's destined for the compost pile :(
last year:
She seemed to hold so much promise last year. Her tendrils even seem shorter this time? No color?
Wow, Gretchen, what a difference...why is there a change in some seedlings in their second year?
Too bad Gretchen. But it is still earlry. She could change. I hold my breath the second year, it is almost worse than waiting for the first blooms.
Jackie -- I don't know...
Gloria -- she's like an entirely different plant. If she wasn't permanently marked, I'd swear I had mixed tags!
Kell -- yes, I know. Its early in the year, so there's some hope, but I certainly won't hold my breath. Now the wait begins for all my babies to get big enough to begin blooming. It will be late this year for many due to the deer nibbling so many of them! But they're finally starting to re-grow and look healthy again :)
I think I remember seeing that pic before and thinking that it was the most lovely brug I had ever seen! She doesn't look like she is totally open yet and may get some more curve and color.. If you decide to compost her send me a cutting..lol.. (I'll trial her for three more years.. grin.. )
Gretchen two yrs ago I had a beautiful seedling that bloomed with a darker edge through two or three flushes.
I kept it over the winter and the following summer it bloomed a plain off white color.
snowhermit...lovely bloom! What it that white brug in the background? Looks kinda cute, I was wondering if it was arborea?!
The white one in the background is another seedling, can't remember the cross though but it wasn't Arborea. Both in the picture were composted.
I'm so thankful I don't have deer dining where we live now, because I went through 17 yrs. of that, but I had some big monster in my backyard last night. Whatever it was took out the whole middle of my 6 ft. tall "Old Faithful" brug. Of course, that was also the section that had all the buds about to open. I know I saw a rabbit in the yard a couple of days ago, but would hardly think it was big enough to do this. It was probably something chasing the rabbit. The neighbors behind us have a transformer in their yard, and it seems that every year some critter digs under it and has babies. One year it was possums and last year it was raccoons. That is where I saw the rabbit coming from under our fence, and that is also where this brug is planted. It is planted along our fence and the transformer is right behind it on the neighbors' side. DH says maybe the rabbit chewed it off at the ground, but I think a neighbor's dog probably was chasing it, because all the plants around it are smushed as well. Sure glad it wasn't one of my really good brugs.
Snow -- that was a pretty one! Too bad she didn't make the cut :(
Laura -- sweet offer, but if she doesn't color up, she'll never leave my garden alive. Some of us that grow brugs for the really serious hybridizer's aren't allowed to release their brugs without the hybridizer's permission, and this one in her present state doesn't measure up at this point. She smells good and is providing me with some blooms, but I fear that she won't be a keeper.
Sylvia -- how in the heck? Can you get your yard man to close up the hole where they're getting in? That's very strange!!! On the plus side, since its early in the season, she'll bounce back and should still bloom. Those of mine that the deer ate the tops off of are putting out new growth. Don't think they'll bloom this year, but maybe next.
The vast majority of mine that are coming back from the roots have Y'd and are loaded with buds!
Gretchen, is your weather different this year from the temperature, humidity, rain fall that you experienced last year?
OK Gretchen, I will behave then :) I hope she comes back though because that is one beautiful brug and fits it's name so perfectly
Shirley, its drier here this year, and that brug didn't bloom until October or November last year. The original is coming back from the roots, but growing at the speed of my versicolor brugs, very slow. It will be interesting to see what she does as time goes on.
Thanks, Laura. I'll keep you in mind if she colors up. :)
Send me lots of pics!!
