hello, everyone! after weathering a couple of storms, the first bud finally opened. it will be raining the next few days, and i'll enjoy this while it lasts.
thinking of saving pollen. but how long can i keep pollen stored in the freezer?
i dream of an arborea in bloom. (sigh).
thank you for looking!
sincerely,
annapet
yellow surely brightened this gloomy day, crystal.
ooops....try again.
Very pretty. The water drops just add more character to your pictures. Thank you for sharing.
shirley, thanks. you've always been encouraging. i remember around the same time last year, i started hanging around here and admiring all the brug photos.
it's so easy to fall in love with brugs, and the love keeps renewing...
First time I have seen this kind of yellow, very different.
Wow! That's a sight we rarely see! Beautiful!
doris, vee - - - thanks for looking.
before i found out what angel's trumpets are, i've been admiring this one plant/tree i see in san francisco. well, eventually i learned it's a b. sanguinea. so thrilled that i don't need a greenhouse to enjoy these beauties.
this yellow brug, i bought from a local nursery. i rarely see yellow sang seeds offered. with the rain and all, not sure if the bees will report for work on pollinating.
WOW, that's pretty, so healthy, full of life, I love the water droplets, very nice photos too!!
Beautiful picture annapet. The flower is lovely. How lucky you are to be able to grow it to blooming.
Annapet, you be the bee. Run out there with one of your little boy's paint brush, and rub it against the anthers then paint the stigma all over with the pollen!!! GO FOR IT, GIRL!!
sherry, terry, kell - - - thanks for the cheers!
kell, will definitely try. now finding out when pollen is READY. just opened today. but didn't you say sang pods take a LONG TIME to grow and ripen? ah....that's right, my other brugs will keep me busy. BRUG LOVE is a year-round thing!
i know one BUMBLEE BEE pretty well....hmn, here's an old photo.
wow it is so beautiful. Sure wish we could grow them down here
Me too, I need a little bumble bee of my very own. Mine is too big now. What a doll, Annapet!
Beautiful bloom, Annapet and such a cute, sweet bumblebee.
thanks, jeanne, ada, kell, and donna. i could not resist! i know someday he'll start protesting when i post his photos for friends to see.
do sanguineas grow big pods? i don't think i've seen photos online. i'll check again though. it's sang love during the winter months. sigh. finally a brug that feels quite "at home" here in corte madera. lol.
Moonglow!!! Beautiful!! I wonder if that isn't the one that John was looking for? He first said yellow. So, tell me why they are a different shape than the ones I got from Seedrack. Color I know. But shape?
I guess I thought the Sangs were all the same shape. Obviously not. Now, how big is the plant? And shape of the plant. Is it a tree, one trunk?
I wish I could send you some pollen from my sister's plant. Kell, how would I do it? Do you have enough blossoms Ana?
What area of California are you in?
Sorry for all the questions. Jeanette
jeanette, this is an older plant from the nursery, and looked like where they took MANY cuttings. not the prettiest tree (but from a BRUG AFFICIONADA - - - a rare find) though the branches are mature, and when i bought it, looks like buds will come out and new leaves. right on.
i pollinated it today. wow, what fluffy pollen, and wish i had others to pollinate. another bloom will soon open. it gets too windy here though, and that worries me.
i live 12 miles north of san francisco, on the foothills of mt. tamalpais.
kin, thanks for stopping by.
That is gorgeous, Mooonglow! Yellow is hard to find. I've been wanting one for a long time.
:) Donna
Moonglow, 12 miles south of San Francisco should put you fairly close to Kell. I think she lives in that area. Don't know exactly. But, I think she says she has trouble with the Sangs. I can't imagine that you all would be as hot as we are here unless you are quite a ways inland from the water.
Shade is the answer to the Sangs. They really do not like direct sun. But then I had a Charles Grimaldi that got a couple hours of afternoon sun last summer and it would wilt right down if it had not been watered right then. Also, an HG that also wilted from the sun. I guess there are different types of sunlight.
Jeanette
Its beautiful!
Love the color!
Sangs suddenly are in all the nurseries here, these yellow ones too. 5 gallon ones with beautiful leaves. There must be a new grower in town. Though one nursery had phoma all over their sangs. It was when we went shopping with Sue and Patricia. It was a shock to see it.
How to do what, Jeanette? Send pollen? I just snip the anthers out and put in a small glassine bag, label it and put in envelope to mail. The faster the better. In the past I would just use wax paper and fold into a little envelope. The pollen is easy to wipe off the sides with a small brush. You get it all.
Yes, Annapet is not too far from me, we are separated by a bridge (San Rafael). I would say 1 hour away at the most. She is North of San Francisco and I am East. We both must take a bridge to get into the city, but a different one (me the Bay Bridge, Annapet the Golden Gate). And to get to each other, we must take yet another bridge (the San Rafael) . We are like a triangle with San Francisco being one of the points.
Actually sangs just love it here, Jeanette. I had a huge sang growing for years and years. It was a sight. This is sang country for I do not get too hot in the summer, stays in the 70s and always cool nights year round in the 50s summer and 40s winter.
My trouble is that sangs are very virus prone and once I started growing brugs in mass quantity, all my sangs caught ugly viruses. The leaves mottled. I also had bought 2 sangs from Kartuz and it was soon after they all came down with the mottled leaves. People still grow them like that for it only shows at certain times of the year, but I hated the look so I got rid of them. It was a sad day when I cut down my sang tree. This was the trunk. It was huge and so old. It also took up way too much space. I would cut it way down every year and it grew back so much bigger.
That's incredible, kell!
Jeanette, thank you. Stay on the dry and safe side. If the yellow sangs don't get to your nurseries there and THIS one grows a pod or two, I'll have seeds to share!
Kell, I've been nursery hopping looking for sangs. My current love. Sigh. I have this affair with brugs year-round now. I think my husband misses me shopping for shoes and handbags. LOL.
Thanks for stopping by, CC.
Donna, Kell has the magic touch.
I always joke about my house having a view of the bridge and prison. Not of the Golden Gate and Alcatraz; instead, San Rafael and San Quentin.
My seedlings spent their first night on the shelf with lights. I have to get more lights for the lower shelf.
Woo-hoo!
Anapet, got a pod on the Sang about an inch and a half long. Slow probably because of the cold. But definitly a pod.
Jeanette
