She was planted in the garden 2 years ago next month and is all grown up, with a couple of her Cutting Kids doing well also at about 4' tall.
Double White is all grown up
Oh Wow! She's so full of blooms!! Beautiful :-)
shes great and her are children to.. very nice...
Just beautiful! What a difference when you can grow Brugs in the ground year round!
So very nice!!! We are proud for you.
Judy
Wow Candy, that is just beautiful! I bet it is smelling like heaven out there tonight!
It smells good all night ..... every night. We leave the upstairs window open at night and have an attic fan that sucks all that fragrance right into the bedroom. Almost knocks your socks off!
Looks so lush and cool. Such a deep green. Everything looks like they love your yard, Candy. You must plant them all in gold. LOL
Very pretty, Candy.
WOW, so beautiful Candy, with your green thumb and your zone CA, you have the prettiest plants and blossoms ever - if you could just figure out a way to send us the fragrance via e-mail, everything would be perfecto!!! Have you made the move to your new home yet?? I always love your photos and brugs, they are so healthy and beautiful...
She got a "freshening" up before I took this picture. I removed probably 100 blossoms.....if you have a Double White and cold weather and lots of late season rain, the blooms tend to turn a brown mushy color/texture. I'm trying to keep this one in bounds......silly me had no idea how big these grow when I planted it. Last fall I took 4 feet off the top and all around the sides. She's supposed to be kind of an umbrella shape.....but all the blossoms weigh down the limbs so it's a little hard to see the "open" structure I've been trying to promote.
My 'Frosty Pink' was pruned harshly also and then inadvertantly pruned again when we took down a couple of trees last fall. It is now just getting its first flush of buds and has a much more compact structure than it did before. All the Dr. Seuss have been blooming for several months and fighting the terrible Spring weather that Kell and I have both been having.
No move yet Sherry, it will be sometime next year as we continue to do soils and engineering tests, grading plans....yada yada yada with the county. It's a nightmare. My only problem is keeping some of my plants small enough that I will still be able to dig them up and take them with me as the time frame spreads out. :-)
Kell it's not gold......it's commercial cow manure. Must be where that lovely fragrance comes from.
The fragrance in the garden at night with all these brugs competing is just awesome.
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Looking up at her skirts.....she doesn't want to drop them when it turns cold like it has been the last couple of days!
And each Spring the first flush has at least half of the buds that are deformed like this and as they open they splay out into huge "shredded" blossoms.
And what I normally don't show you........this was part of what I removed to get her ready for a picture yesterday.
Oh My how fantasic, Can't wait to see buds this year, just getting started here in Ohio, I think I need to move to another climate LOL. Happenstance just wonderful thanks for the pic's
JoAnn
How wonderful to be able to grow a Brug like that! It should be in our local conservatory, then it could continue to grow 50 ft.
What an exciting time for you Candy!! I know permits and regulations are a pain, but it will be worth it in the long run, like 5 years from now, lol!! My brother has been working on his for 14 months, just the building part, it took them several years to do the prelim stuff. Whatever, keep us posted as you move through your building fazes, I love all that kinda stuff, especially when it is someone else. We had a small amount of cement poured this week and it almost took an act of Congress and I live in a tiny little town. Whew. Your white brug is so beautiful, you do a grand job!!!
It looks wonderful! Oh how I dream of a brug this size in my yard.