This one is orange

This picture doesn't show the true color very well. In person it is a day-glo orange. The cross is Seedling (EventideXButterfly) X Madeira. I was so in love with my first seedling of last year and wanted to see if I could pollinate a bloom, but the only other one I had blooming at the time was Madeira, so.... I didn't expect anything fabulous and didn't even know if it would have color, since Madeira is one of those that starts out creamy white, and sometimes turns peach after a few days. Since the weather has been cool (high 30's -40's at night and 40's-60's during the day) I am wondering if it will be darker next summer in the heat.

Here is the EventideXButterfly seedling last year. Both seedlings have a very nice fragrance, similar to Pink Beauty.

Very nice indeed Eileen. I like the single split in the calyx and the color. Do you want it to be darker? That day glo orange looks great right now!!
Your EventideXButterfly is Just Breathtaking!

Very nice

Thanks Kin and tonyjr. I don't necessarily want it to be darker, I was just wondering. Some of the seedlings that bloomed this summer are going again and look very different from the previous blooms. Of course I have laid off the fertilizer, anticipating frosts and basement dormancy.

Wow, I love your orange, the shape is great! Did you get any other orange seedlings?
It is always interesting what you might get from the crosses.
Nearly everything I grew out this year was white! Pretty, but white.
I like the orange ones over the dk pinks but I do like the soft baby pink ones too. This is just way to addicting, ya just want everyone!
Bj

Does anyone have a link on how to pollinate and cross Brugs? I need a step by step with pictures. LOL. Thanks

Thanks Bj, I only saved 4 seedlings from this cross - the fastest, strongest growing ones that didn't get all spider-mitey. One of those was pitched due to some black soft spots on the trunk, and of the other three this is the only one to Y. I wonder if the orange came from the Madeira.

crystal, here is a link to a Classic Thread that details Brug Pollinating, it has pictures and lots of instructions.

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/362576/

This message was edited Nov 5, 2005 12:13 PM

So interesting Eileen that you got a slender orange from that big fat dark pink. Both are beautiful. I think your orange looks so much like Big Yella. I love it. It has such a beautiful calyx too.

Whose cross was that pink (EventideXButterfly)? I hope you named it and it is doing the brug circuit so eventually it ends up here. LOL

I agree, in the fall you can't take their looks serioously, they can change too much!

Kell, the Eventide X Butterfly is one of Cala's I think. It blooms in huge flushes and gets very dark in summer. It is beautiful but unfortunately the flowers wilt in the heat, even in northern IL, even in 3/4 shade, even planted in the ground.

I too was surprised to get an orange seedling from her (you can't even call it peach, too bright) thinking that it would probably be white or possibly, pink. In fact of all the seedlings I've grown out, only two have ever been white. The rest have been peach, orange, and pink. I'm so lucky!

I love the shape and color of the first one! Is the calyx split only one time on every flower or is it too early to know yet?

Vicki, there are 3 flowers open and one getting ready to open. But the 3 open ones have just one split in the calyx.

Would you believe in this rainy cold fall weather, I have 4 different seedlings and Pink Beauty blooming. Don't they know it's time to be quietly going dormant? The colors are so distorted, if I were seeing them bloom for the first time I wouldn't be impressed at all.

The Amber Rose x Butterfly seedling I am growing has a similar shape, I think. (pictured)

They are all beautiful !

Elva

I really love the one split. Somehow it makes the shape more elegant to my eye. Very pretty. :)