Double White again:
Colored Double
Here is Ecuador Pink, Pink Beauty, and Duke:-)
She is beautiful, really pretty, what a wonderful way to honor your sweet doggiel, Duchess is a great name. I love 'working names' and use them since there are multiple seedlings with the same parents. I doubt I'll ever register a brug. As it is I can hardly tell the difference in any number and without working names, it would be almost impossible to trade and know which one is which...I respect the opinions of all with regard to this matter...
Thanks, Sherry:-)
Clare, I learn so much from your beautiful pictures of your garden. A very kind person just sent me Green Snowbank, Tropical Sunset, Isabella, Pink Beauty and Dr. Seuss. And there was Pink Beauty in your yard. Do you have any of the others? It sounds like it takes two years for them to bloom is that right? I am trying to log root them. Do you think that is right for a beginner?
Sorry Clare I am back with all these question but my beautiful little pink one that you save this summer is very healthy. Joan
Hi Joan and thanks for the compliments! It sounds like you've got some good ones. Brug cuttings can bloom when very young, and they can even bloom while they are rooting! Cuttings taken from a flowering tree will usually bloom right away. Seeds can take two years to bloom from sowing, but some can bloom in the first year as well. I'm not a big fan of log rooting, and I've actually never tried it. I stick my cuttings in jars of water and keep them out on my back patio, and they always develop roots. I've not had one rot in a long time. The ones that used to get mushy were the ones that were very thin and very green so I make sure to only root semi-hardwood or hardwood cuttings. I only root green cuttings if they are fairly thick. If you don't want to water-root, just planting the cuttings in well-draining potting soil should work just fine. You'll need to put them in a protected place and make sure that they don't freeze, but they should root fine. Isabella, PB, and Dr. Suess should be super easy to root. I haven't rooted the others, but they shouldn't be any different.
Clare, your Duchess is lovely. What a wonderful way to memorialize your wonderful friend. Congrats to you and Susie.
I missed this great photo show. THANKS Clare. How great. Thanks for your Mister Lincoln picture, too. Such a beautiful red.
Sherry, if you have some from the same pod that look a lot alike, you can always pick the best one to name and circulate if you want. I will probalby register Sexy Lady at some point because she is not only pretty but so easy. I know there are prettier brugs out there, but are they all so easy to grow, root and pod? I know some people are very serious and sound so strict about which brugs to keep and which to register, but I also notice some register brugs that I would never register. But that is what makes the world go round. We all have different ideas of beauty and what we should do. Makes things much more interesting.
Hey Clare, I hate log rooting also. LOL. Funny how we all get our own preferences that work for us. There sure are no hard and fast rules.
Kell, when you put Sexy Lady up for sale would you please let me know so I can buy a cutting of her. She is so beautiful I hope you will register her so we will not lose her. I am new at all of this but I sure remember her when you put her up for us to see a few months ago. She realy is Sexy and I never thought of a flower that way. Did you cross pollinate to get her?
Clare, with you and Kell saying no on log rooting then can I just take them up and put them in water? I just did it 3 days ago.
Thank you both,
Joan
Some people love rooting like that, Joan. So you may do great. I think it is used a lot when you want to get the most plants from your cutting for you can cut the pieces so small as long as you have a node in each one. Mine were just so floppy. I would leave them if I were you. Lets see what Clare says, she is smarter than I am!
I just sent a bunch out of Sexy Lady, fearing she would get some crud and be lost. All the 'SB" talk lately makes me so nervous. LOL
She is actually not my hybrid, but a Susie French hybrid that I grew out from seed. Just one of Susie's many great ones!! She really does put on a continuous show. Mite resistent too. So easy. So strong. She has been the center focal point in my courtyard for 3 years. I named her that for she will just get covered in pods. She must be very attractive to someone.
I do not sell brugs, I am too unreliable. I just hate packing them up. But if you email me thru Dave's and put in the subject I want Sexy Lady, I may get it together at some point. Remind me inside that I told you to do it so I do not think you are too pushy with that title. LOL. Every so often I do get the urge or more likely the guilt and send out lots of boxes. I then go back thru my dmail. I just got some out 2 weeks ago. I still have about 10, I need to get out. We just started our rainy season late, so I doubt I will be cutting on any of them for while. They may then rot.
Clare, Duchess just gets prettier every day! I love it. I like your double white too.
Kell, I think Bleu stepped on my "Sexy Lady." He has big feet.
LOL Suz. You are so bad. I thought that was the only one that had lived.
Oops. my bad. I was just trying to get another one, lol.
LOL Susie.
LOL, you guys! Kell, there is no way that I am smarter than you! LOL! You crack me up.
Joan, if yours are lying in soil, I would rinse them off and stick them in jars of water, but that is just me because that is the way that I prefer to do them, but it is up to you if you want to experiment. Brugs are so easy that it is really hard to make a mistake with them. Here is a picture of some of my Isabella cuttings which have been sitting in jars of water out on my back patio.
Kell, you've got a love a brug which is resistant to mites! Sexy Lady is a beauty.
Joan, here's a different jar. It might get some algae build up inside the jar, but algae doesn't hurt anything and might even provide some nutrition. Every once in a while I might rinse out the jar and fill with fresh water.
Clare, I'm such a newbie that last spring, I had a variety of brugs in the same container (how I pray that due process has expired and that i cannot be prosecuted at this late date!!) and they got algae - I thought it was slime/root rot, so i poured H202 on them - bleached them out snow white (of course i thought I had killed them) and they were my first to bloom...
That's great, Sherry. Yeah, the algae won't hurt them, but I do wash it off from time to time, clean the jar out, and put in fresh water. It's really only an issue in the summer when the weather is warm. During the winter, the water is too cold for the algae to live in.
Clare, I wish the algae wouldn't hurt them here, but if it's left, the cutting turns to mush, but I've never had it happen to cuttings other than the real greenies. The woody, fat cuttings never seem to get the algae...today is crazy, 28 overnight, had to have heat this am and now it's almost 70 in the GH, I might even get algae in the bubbler if it stays like this...
Sherry, you are right about a little bleach. It doesn't hurt the cuttings, and it should clear up the algae.
So far, Clare, I cannot find any fault with H202, I'm using it like crazy in the GH, along with Physan 20 (my new fav product, following H202); however, I have been cautioned re using H202 in the ground - I'm told it might disturb my pH, which is supposed to be 'perfect'...I dunno.
Hmmm, I don't see how it could affect the Ph since it is just oxygenated water.
The bleaching effect, I suppose; however, the county agent that identified Western Flower Thrips as Flea Beetles, is the person that cautioned me re the H202. Until I learn differently I won't use it in the ground - the bubbler is where I generally use it...
clare
I think Dutchess is a great name for your double
Its beautiful!!!!!
a great tribute to a great dog!!
Incredible roots there, Clare.
Thanks, Karyn and Kell. Karyn, please tell me how Cinders and your other little guy are doing. Cinders has to be 14 by now, right?
Beautiful Clare. Have you heard from Vicki??? I haven't heard from her is so long. Hope she is well
Thanks, Donna. I haven't heard from her in a long time either. Kay and I just talked about this recently in an email. We miss her.
We sure do