Here is Maya, after her side branches were clipped...but I am letting the suckers grow at the bottom (prezzies, you know). I took many of the cuttings and just stuck them back in the ground around the Mama...will have a Maya Forest soon. Is it best to take all the foliage from the stem...even the new itty bitty ones?
And, Kell, shorts worn specifically to take this photo.
I have NO idea what this brug is...it has JUST Y'd...I am nearly 6' tall!!!!! See little Snowbank lighting up the back?
Creamsickle hasn't even finished dropping dead ones from the last flush...boy, is she ever a keen bloomer!
Moving right along...PandC about to bloom....also lighting up a dark corner.
Coming up the first hill, on the left is a BIG area with Brugmansias (all pruned back now...) and Snowbank, still small, lights up the whole area.
It is so much fun sharing with you all...when I talk Brugs, DH immediately switches the conversation to palms...but he secretly covets them. I think....I hope?
WOW your plants look wonderfull my Maya is finnaly doing good, hope she continues to do so.
Doris
Great pics Carol! Something about the misty haze up there. Closest I get to that is a little fog once in awhile. :)
Can you get another shot of that creamsickle with your head or something by the front bloom for comparison. That picture... the blooms just look so big. "Massive" came to mind. So I'm wondering if it's just the picture or are those blooms really that big?
Beeeeeautiful
That creamsickle is unbelievable! Look at all those blooms!
Will do, Blaine...
The haze is part the bad light and part VOG....volcanic emissions that roll down the mountain in the night and we have a little left over in the morning....but it is mstly the bad light. (not that the light is bad...the photographer is awful!!).
;>)
Hah! I hope you don't think for one minute I don't love your pictures! You know how smells will bring back long ago memories, like childhood and your mother's flowers or something? Looking at your pics brings back the feel, smell and experiences from those years on Oahu in the 70's!!
lol! you paint quite a picture there Kin! lol! Isn't she the coolest!
Kin...it is going to be either the machete or the chainsaw!!! Some of those 4' high brugs have a trunk 3" in diameter!
Blaine...I know all too well the power of fragrance. Driving thru the Presidio in San Fran.at the age of 50 there was suddenly a whiff of salt air, pines, gums and I was beamed back to childhood during the war, waiting for my father to come home. Tidal flats with seaweed recalls 4 years old at my grandmothers', collecting starfish to bury under her grape arbor (Bremerton, WA)....I know that smell is key in my life...and I think more than appreciated in others. Perhaps even problem 'people/children'. A subject I know nothing about but understand at a gut level.
Gotta send you some pineapple!!!
did someone say pineapple? lol! Love the stuff. The fresher the better. But boy is it spendy that way around here.
Carol , I know where yer comin' from totally understanding your love of fragrances in the air.
My family thinks I'm nutz when I comment on the difference in Spring & Fall air for starters .
Even the smell of sea air , which is my top fav , will put me in an euphoric state of mind .
I'm with ya Sister ;-)
And here, by popular demand...
And my newly weeded shade house with brug seedlings growing....NO, I didn't weed it!!!
And I just HAD to include this...these are the wild orchids growing all over the place and in full bloom now... It's why our area is called Orchidland (sounds like a cheap trailer park on the Texas border, doesn't it?).
lol Carol! trailer park. NOT!
Those wild orchids are beautiful! And so are you! :-)
I think I have pollen all over my nose and lips...!!! too early in the morning.
Thanks Karrie...love the difussed light!!
orchids and brugs in bloom ? It kills me when I walk into Home Depot and they have a bunch right by the door.
Carol - I very prone to acting on impulse. I call it "Getting a wild hair".
I'm about this close || to offering you a few days free labor as long as I clean up after myself and have refreshments. Plus - I need to introduce to a bow saw. It'll make short quick work of any brug trees you've got.
I'm not sure what rock you're on - Big Island, Hawaii, Kona?
Big Island, E. Side...look for Hilo. Then go W. a bit and find Keaau...go south to Pahoa. We live right in the middle between the two, 2 miles mauka (towards the mountain).
Yep...we call it getting a wild hair...only way to fly! C'mon over!
Aloha
Such lovely plantings.
Your many seedlings and cuttings are fabulous!
What will we be seeing next year?
None of those seedlings are mine ;>) except for the tall ones that came from a 'wild' cross on a gold/yellow brug with no name. The others were all gifted from members of this forum to grow out. It is very exciting...when not spraying for spider mites!!! Boy, the mites really like the seedlings!!!
speaking of - I have some neeming to do!
I don't know how they will do in other regions as a combo outdoor/houseplant but in south florida we just twist the tops off of the store bought pineapples and stick them in the ground or a pot. It takes awhile but the bromelad foliage will eventully grow to such a size that it will produce a stalk with a pinapple on top. My pinapple plants grow nicely amongst my brugs.
Carol, you won't believe this!
I just scrolled back to the top to see the original pink shorts pic before uploading the version I printed 8x10's from the original fullsize you sent. I printed several different crops and orientations.
My final version is almost the exact same area as what you posted!!!
I just went a little wider to keep some of the surroundings and a little lower to pick up that pruned leaf.
With a little tweak on brightness and contrast it made a wonderful 8x10.
gotta love that hot pink!
I would happily volunteer to take another one, Blaine...I look positively fugly!
nope!
Carol you really look great.
Linda
GREAT tweeking, Blaine! Darn brug is 6" taller today!!!
Alohahoya is that Maya from the field test? fabulous!!!
Yes, Maya from the field test...the woody cutting. Green cutting is still admiring the landscape!
Hey Blaine....did your blooms pop? Mine are emerging from the calyx. I'll bet ours bloom within the 4 days of eachother! OK, maybe 6 given Daylight savings time, rotation of the earth and the price of tea in China!!!
Carol if you aren't using garage pee then you may have to give it another day. LOL
Linda
I must not have added pics to the field test thread but you'll see it in the tour part II thread.
Yes, 2 of the blooms have been opened for 2 days. I don't see any tinges of peach or pink or anything on these.
Otherwise, I'm trying real hard to see a different between the Maya from Kell and the Peaches and Cream I got from Valley Grow.
pulled it out of the other thread.
This was her on the 30th
Is this your test Maya?? If it is I'm throwing my hands up in the air and calling it quits. Mine is only about 8 inches tall, not growing at all. Now my P & C is growing good but still no where as tall as yours.
Linda
Linda, I think Blaine has a golden thumb. :-)
