My first brug flower!:)**

It opened up two nights ago over a tiny pond out our back door - no moon that night, but DH and I did enough mooning over that flower to make up for many moons.

I owe my sudden brug riches to Juttz, Dravencat and Shirley1md, who traded me brugs earlier this year. I cannot thank those two enough.

This flower came from a plant that Shirley1md started from seed - it Y'd about 6" from the crown, rather than 5' from the crown, so would I be correct to think that it might therefore make a smaller plant easier to trundle in and out of the house? It's softly flushed with pink onto white, and is the most exquisite, heavenly scented flower it has ever been my delight to own.

I don't have a digital camera, but there's a painting by Kinuko Craft called "Evening Serenade" that expresses how magical this plant is to me, and I thought you might like it - yes, there's at least one brug in there. If you share this painting, you might like to let the share-ee know the source: http://www.fsartists.com/kcraft_fantasy_105.html


This message was edited Oct 13, 2005 4:45 PM

congrats! saw the brugs on the painting, but i'd love to see yours!

=)

Shirley's seedling is loaded with emerging buds - we often have the tomato-killing frost between Oct 18 - 22, but in some recent years, that hasn't come until well into November, so maybe we'll be able to enjoy them when they open if we trundle them back and forth with respect to frost.

I might be able to coerce a friend who has a digital with cuttings later on to oblige... This seedling of Shirley's is quite a contrast to the other 4 brugs that Juttz and Shirley shared with me, so far, in terms of such a number of buds emerging all of a sudden - perhaps they're just a little behind this one.

I'm sure all of you can remember when your first brug flower opened in your gardens - anyone else have any stories to tell about their first brug flower?

I'm so happy that one of the Brugs that I gave you bloomed already! Isn't their scent absolutely devine? I'm delighted that you and your DH have seen the beauty of their blossoms and inhaled their exquisite fragrances. It sounds like another Brug convert! May this be the beginning of a totally wonderful obession!

One obsession leads to another - night was often the only time I could visit our garden, so Moon Gardens were my first obsession. Can you imagine a blooming brug just behind Prince Genji against the screen on the deck?

This image is from the following link - you need to scroll down and then click on the thumbnail - It's a woodcut from Japan's Edo period, by Hiroshige I, titled "The Night Garden", from 1853, and the website is: http://www.hiroshige.org.uk/hiroshige/triptychs/triptychs.htm

I knew you would love it! ☺ Dont they smell just awesome? I know the first time I smelled a brug I thought I would never go back into the house because I couldnt get my nose out of it, LOL.
Congrats!

Janet, this is the third night, it's still mesmerizingly fragrant and gorgeous, and buds are popping out all over it. I told Shirley I didn't have any room for lots of seedlings, so turned down her offer of seed, but if this is an example of what you get from her seed...

Here's another moonlit spot begging for a brug. I'm posting 3 woodcuts of it done over a period of 124 years of the same place: Shinobazu Pond in the Ueno suburb of Tokyo (once known as Edo). It was destroyed in WWII, and its spirit doesn't live on as well in post-war reconstruction as it does in Paul Binnie's woodcut late in the 20th century.

Am including the first one for context. Can’t you imagine a brug blooming in all its nightly splendor, somewhere in the moonlit gardens of Shinobazu Pond as portrayed in these woodcuts?

1) Hiroshige I _ Shinobazu Pond _ 1843
Link: http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/hiroshige_ando.html
Scroll down to Ando Hiroshige in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art DataBase and click on that - this woodcut will be on page 5 - then click on thumbnail and then on “enlarge”

2) Kasamatsu Shiro _ Shinobazu Pond _ 1932
Link: http://camel2.conncoll.edu/visual/Japanese-prints/index-3.html
Scroll down and click below the thumbnail on the number of kilobytes you want - 408kb will show off this woodcut best.

3) BinniePaul _ Moon Over Shinobazu _ b1967
Link: Http://www.pachesham.co.uk/binnie/newmoon.htm

Here's to brugs and to what they do for the imagination :)