I have been deleting pictures tonight trying to make some roonm on my hardrive. I came across this one of Cream sickle in my courtyard on 10/22/05. Oh to have such weather again!
Dry Memories
I for one would love to have a creamsickle like that!!!
Just beautiful!
Oh Kell... you've done it again. LOL Awesome Picture! I'm getting so crabby from the dreary weather I need to be walking sideways. Thank you for the pretty picture to bring a smile.
Wow Kin.. almost doesn't look real without gray dreary skies! Beautiful.. just beautiful.
Kell that photo is just knockout beautiful. Creamsickle is my husbands favorite brug. His has its first two open blooms right now. I ran out last night and pollinated them and ran in and told him. LOL. He hates it when I mess with his brugs. He caught me recently after I had taken a cutting off his Creamsickle to give to someone. Saw the cut mark.
Kell, that is a gorgeous picture of Creamsickle, which happens to be my favorite brug.
Kell,
That photo of Creamsickle is gorgeoous. I love Creamsickle because it always seems to be in bloom — either in a flush or singly. Mine is going through is first flush in the greenhouse. It's loaded with flowers, but they are all white. Does your Creamsickle tend to color out in cool weather only? Could the warm and/or hot weather here keep it white? I'm trying my luck at pollinizing Creamsickle again and noticed that some of the anthers had petal-like extensions filling the inside of the corolla.
Creamsickle is hard to beat when she turns color. I love the 2 tone look when some are white and some are gold. She is also is such a big girl.
Oh Kin that picture is a true beauty, that brug looks like she is in full sail. So cheerful. I need some cheer!! Though my yard is full of all the daffodils I planted late but all around them is ickiness. Wet ickiness.
Thank you Melanie and Joyce! Joyce, did you make up that great saying about being crabby and walking sideways? Too funny!!
Veronica, she makes very nice double babies so do pollinate her a lot!! I found that I had to pull out her pollen laden anthers to get to her stigma to pollinate. She is always loaded with pollen. I know just what you are talking about with those extra petal like attachments to the base of the anthers. One of my double pinks gets those though not my Creamsickle. I wish we knew her parents. As far as the color, I used to think she wanted it cool to change colors but then she did it when it was hot here once and didn't do it when we were cool. So I had to revise my thinking. I am still trying to figure out what triggers it. Though most of my flushes do change so perhaps it is the coolness of my weather.
Oh Delisa, you banished Creamsickle from your A list? For shame on you. So what did you pollinate Creamsickle with? I bet you get great babies. I plan on pollinating her a lot too this year. Your husband is a keeper even if he growls when you play with his babies. My husband hates brugs, they have become his nemesis.
Thanks Patricia................... the wisteria was still there last night at 6!!!!
If I took a pic of my courtyard now, you all would would feel sorry for me for having such an ugly courtyard. LOL. I have so much clean up work to do too! Instead of doing it in the rain, I have been going to nurseries every day. I am not only broke now but you no longer can walk around my courtyard. Wall to wall pots. I am going to have lots of trouble getting it all together! It used to be a green jungle with lots of color!!
Trust me Kell he is taking great care of Creamsickle. It was just so wide taking up to much space in the portable greenhouse. Looks like I may have a real gh this year to stick on in though. DH promised me one if I would move out in it.
These pictures are all so beautiful!!
Creamsickle is one that I need this year!!
Bonnie
Kell, your gardens are so beautiful and that brug is gorgeous. We need rain, I'm afraid we are going to have a very dry spring and summer.
Kell, that is beautiful! It's still raining out there? Send it this way......we're having brush fires and really haven't had rain in about 6 weeks. Can't you share? LOL
Too funny, Delisa. If I had room for a GH, my DH would have made me go live in it long ago.
Oh Bonnie, I would send you one but I am so pathetic in getting things mailed out. I have about 20 plants sitting here I have bought for friends and have not yet mailed them out.
Susie, if you saw it now you would go ICK! ................. such a mess.
Barbara, we have had 30 days of straight rain. My yard is mud. Please come take the rain!! Fires are so bad!! I really wish I could share with you and Susie.
Look what I found yesterday. I have wanted one for a long time. And it is PINK!! LOL
It is beautiful Kell, but what is it???
Really!!.what is it? I don/t know about Suzanne..but I/m picking out a place in the garden where one might go!!..:)
I hope Kell doesn't mind if I answer it. It's called Brazilian Plume Plant, Justicia carnea. Beautiful isn't it!
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/68086/index.html
Thanks!! So, that bloom really appears much bigger than it really is ..?
Exactly right Veronica an dyou even picked the correct cultivar Huntington.
Rj, I was so shocked when I saw it at the nursery. I have wanted one since the first time I saw it years ago but never came across one. The flower is about 6 inches long and maybe 3 or 4 inches around. I decent size but not huge by any means. But they get them on the ends of each branch so if you have a fairly good sized bush you get quantity!
Is everyone else's Dave font huge? Or did Dave hear me say on another forum that I can't see well anymore and then take pity on me. My font now is so huge I can read it from across the roon. Maybe I clicked on something unknowingly.
Rj, look at this HTOP picture of his bush.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/showimage/26701/
oh wow..that is something...see I was doing so good not to know about this plant..hahaha..you temptress! The only thing in large font here is temptress...hmmm...hehee
LOL Rj...... LOL.
So really, your font is not big?? Well I love mine big font. It is like all is in neon lights. Hard to miss. LOL.
i think we all have spring fever very bad. our weather here is a tease cold then warm cold then warm. all my spring bulbs are in bud nothing is going to stop them everybody seems to be more cheerful i wonder why. Bob
Kell, Htop is a girl, lol.
That is justicia carnea??? Why doesn't mine look that pretty??? Mine isn't as pretty as Hazel's either!
OOPS Susie, LOL. Sorry HTOP.
I didn't know you had this one, Susie. Does it come in other colors instead of pink?
Yes, it comes in white. Take a look at these http://www.kartuz.com/c/7RFPJ1/Ipomoea+to+Justicia.html
There's a white one (Justicia Carnea Alba) and a yellow one (Justicia Aurea). I had the white one for a couple of years, and REALLY want it back! I like the flowers on both of them, but the leaves on the white one always looked nicer than the pink one.
I had no idea Justicia was such a huge group. So many plants and so little time. And money, LOL
Oh Ronna, do you have a picture of your white one that is no more? Did you grow it in a pot? I am afraid to put mine in the ground in case it hates my wet, cool winters. How long does it flower for?
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I probably don't have a picture, but I'll look through them to check. It was in a pot, and I had it for a couple of years. It seems like it flowered slightly more than the pink one, but the prettier foliage is what sticks in my mind. The pink one seems to get ratty looking leaves in the heat and the wind, and has to stay in a pretty well shaded spot. Way less a problem for you than it is for Susie and me! The white one was in a partly shaded spot, and the leaves always looked pretty. They're more heart shaped and kind of rippled. I have the yellow one, too. It's newer for me, I've only had it for a year, but so far, I like it!
It likes moist soil, but I don't know if it likes wet, cold soil. There is a red one that I want called red justicia but it is really pachystachs coccinea.