I know I have been whining in my other thread about beetles eating my brugs...but I also have some good news. Here is my Golden Lady cutting that I bought on ebay a few months ago. This plant is only 6-7 inches tall (very bushy, wide plant) that is planted in a bucket about 5 gallon size..but look what I found on her today!
Diane Krny
here's a closeup. Is Golden Lady a double?
Diane
Hi Diane thats really neat.. bet be a real beauty..
Yes, a perky double, Diane. You will love her to pieces and she is great as a mother brug.
Wow Kell..I hope I can grow brugs as beautiful as yours someday. Great pic of Golden Lady I presume. Because mine is such a short stocky plant, I wonder if the grower I got her from used the log method of rooting the cutting -- obviously it must be an "above the Y" to bud and bloom this early.
Diane
golden lady is a double... ???
mine didn't bloom last year...
wowowow
Mine was an above the Y cutting too. And the first year it grew to about 6 ft. I was so shocked. Now it is so very tall. Way over my lathe over my porch. maybe 12 ft? I am going to cut her way back as soon as I have time. She has suckered all over. Way out of control. Now on mine I cheat because I have kept it in the ground for several years all winter. Though last winter, I cut it to just 1 stalk about 5 ft because she had pods on her i wanted. I was going to get rid of her because she had splitting in her joints. But it turned out it was fine so I kept her and she took off in the spring. and never looked back.
Yes a double, elyearcrazy. I hope you get lots of blooms this year. She does like to bloom so you should!
I lost something here: Diane, did you ask if GL was a double from a shape of the buds...or just as a random question?...
let the fun being Diane!! Mine been short and is about to open her first blooms. Glad Kell posted the pic - I didn't know or forgot that it's double but have heard she has a great fragrance. She has responded the best and quickest to being planted in ground.
AlohaHoya - I asked as a general question because I thought I remembered hearing or reading it was a double but couldn't remember -- I'm getting old you know :-)
I was just surprised to see ther bloom so early and the fact that she is short and stocky with multiple stems made me wonder if she was grown from having a rooting planted sideways or the "log method" as some here have mentioned. I tried that method with one of my Dr. Suess cuttings and it worked very well.
Diane
amazing to see three buds on such a little plant, good luck with them.
Doris
I've had 2 cuttings of Golden Lady, neither one made it. Kell, yours of course is beautiful. Diane, please show us pictures when your baby blooms.
In case noone answered, yes, I believe Golden Lady is a double.
Looks great Diane. You will truly fall in love with her.
Larry the 2 cuttings I just gave you are Y'd pieces so get them rooted so they can bloom for you
Yahoo! GL is definitely double as she started dropping the 2nd skirt on one of my blooms. I thought the first was a single. Looked inside and found out she's constipated for some reason. 2nd skirt rolled over and stuffed up in there. Oh well.. there are 2 others also opening and looks like I'm going to have a steady parade for awhile.
LindaSC, I lost a GL last year, I thought because she was put in the ground late and that might well be what my problem was, it was rooted, but small. What was the problem with yours? Do you think our zone might be too hot/humid for her??
