Poor Inca Princess.....a couple of flushes have been blown away in our unseasonably cold/wet/windy Spring this year. But, this time I think she's gonna make it and have a bunch of blooms. She's a trooper.....notice one of her stakes that snapped off in one of the storms, but she held on tight and here she is.
very nice another one have not heard of.. lovely..
She's doing GREAT Candy! Full of blooms everywhere, I'll have to agree, she's a real trooper.
Hugs
Julie
Very very nice! Really looks healthy.
Look at all those blooms.! Nothing's going to hold her back! Can't wait to see them all open. Very nice
Mary
She's a pretty tree Candy. I know she's going to look spectacular when all of those blooms open.
Ohhhh ~ I just love the sangs. Please show us a pic when she is open.
Wish I could grow these. Very pretty, Candy.
Beautiful!
She sure is so happy at your house. Just lovely!
For those of you who haven't seen one of these bloom before......they are not big showy girly blooms like most of the Brugs one sees.
This is a very restrained Brug, but I am glad you enjoyed seeing her and I'll post a picture with more blossoms open soon. :-)
She's beautiful! Must love it where she is!
Bonnie
Well it was a hot one today......in the upper 80's! Woohoooo I love hot weather!
But, 'Inca Princess' is not gonna last long in this heat, so here she is again with not all of her pretties open, but on the way.
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darn I bet that 9.00 bid on ebay would have got me the best looking bloom later...
Thats awsome happens
ely
Probably not Ely. The heat and humidity would have taken it.
I love the color of this one, a true yellow.
Wow! I love the color, it's so bright yellow, it's gorgeous!
'Inca Princess' is planted right outside my office at home, so I get to see a lot of her, but she's really hard to get a good picture of because of all the glare. Here she is as I usually see her from the French doors in the office.
really ahelms? the heat would have got it? its growing good in 10a? not even in the shade?
ely
Ely, I don't think they have the humidity we have. It's always worth a try. I lost mine last summer when the heat and humidity got so bad. It was under shade trees.
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We do have the heat (much hotter here than just a few miles away where Kell is).
We do cool off at night year round. It may be 100F during the day, but the norm is to cool down to 55 at night.
We have little or no humidity during our warm season April-October. Unlike many other areas in the SF Bay area we get only a few foggy mornings during the warm season.
Both of my sangs (this one and "Ms Scarlet") get morning sun, dappled shade for a couple hours, and then full shade the rest of the day.
They are both beautiful Candy. I wish I could grow them and get them to bloom.
I think I would rather trade for a cutting than pay 9 dollars pluse shipping. for it to die.... at least one person would be happy. That is awsome. I like how they are slinder... to me that is awsome.... are you coastal ahelms.... ? I couldn't think of NC being humid.... do you know pete?
ely
you were right ahelms donna b told me NO!
ely
They need the cool nights to be happy. Our temps are in th e50s all summer olong. I can snuggle under my down comforter, all summmer long. Cuttings of sangs can be very hard to get to root. Took me awhile to get mine to root.
Candy, that is just stunning. I think I have tried 3 of this one of Annies over the last few years. I saw some the other day at Regans, 4 inch for I think $3.98. I almost bought it again. LOL. But I get it all grown up and then I see mottled leaves so I toss it. Have you had mottling on yours?
I think I just got lucky with these two......I sure don't baby them or take good care of them. The saga of "Ms Scarlet" has been well documented here on DG over the last couple of years. Lost her head a couple of times in the wind, then lost it again.......have you ever wondered why I've never posted a picture of the whole plant?
The Scarlet flowers are probably my favorite.......but this is one ugly plant. She started off as a 4" potted little thing, grew to a couple of feet tall, then lost her top to the wind and again and again. Leafless and deformed with a Y at about the 24" level. So then she tried to grow up again and lost one arm of her Y last winter. So this Spring the remaining arm grew to about 6 feet tall and has now Y'd again and has some nice growth on top with a few buds. Are you getting the picture???? This is not an attractive plant, but I keep her around because I like the few blooms I get and because she's survived more adversity than about anything else in my garden.
She had something last year that looked like rust, but other than being battered and bruised she seems OK.....I don't know if she'll ever let me take a picture of her full-length, but is pleased to have me take pictures of her flowers. :-)
This is a non-artist's rendition of poor Ms Scarlet's physique.
LOL. So I hope you are crossing the 2 of them. You might get great babies. I hear ugly Moms are the best ones.
That must be why my kids both turned out gorgeous!
(Kell - I still have never done a pod, dipped into the pollen or ventured beyond smelling the pretty flowers......I've never even had a pod!)
Well then, it is time!! So get busy Candy. Get out the paint brush, it only takes a second. This is a great cross too, hardly anyone is doing it. Just think, you may get a red and yellow striped and be able to call it Candy Cane!! LOL
Elyearcrazy, no I'm not coastal. I'm about twenty miles north of Lowe's Motor Speedway (Charlotte) I know Pete from S.C. Nice guy. He's grown a Sang, I think but don't know if he ever got a bloom.
Oh wow, your MsScarlet is beautiful. I am betting it wouldn't survive in our Texas Heat and Humidity but I would so love to see it here.
Night view this evening.
I was at Berkeley Horticultural yesterday Candy. They had 5 gallon pots of Inca Queen. I have to go look up what color that is. They wanted $32. I had such fun there and the big one on San Pablo. I also bought a few plants at the one on McGee. I was an hour late getting home for our sushi date. My car was stuffed.
Good for you Kell.......contributing to the Bay Area economy is a very good thing!!
I think 'Inca Queen' is a red-orangey color, perhaps that's what my "Ms Scarlet" is supposed to be?
Berkeley H is one of my all time favorite places, they have such great plants.
Funny, I was just reminiscing as I reread this thread. I recall how Glory emailed me wanting pollen from my sang. I had no clue. She wanted "fluffy" pollen. I had no clue about what that was either! LOL
She was so patient. I thought it was this sacred ritual. I was so afraid. Why, I do not know!
I took so many anthers out of about 40 blooms. LOL. I wonder what I thought she would do with so much pollen, funny now.
When I got it all wrapped up for her, I went back out and I ever so cautiously, took a stigma out of one bloom and started using it as a brush, pollinating other blooms with it. I had such fun. And so it all began. LOL
