I finally noticed it just now, it was hiding up between the 2 light bulbs on my seedling table. This is a cutting that so needs to be repotted. Now I am so excited, I hear Dorthea is a really nice pink one.
Do you see it??
The flower will be bigger than the cutting!
This is why I love brugs, they are so hardy, have such great survival instincts and want to make us happy!
Congratulations Kell, I just googled 'Dorthea' and it is indeed a very lovely
dark pink brug.
Patricia
Congrats Kell. WTG !
Elva
It sure is. : )
Neat! Have not seen buds on mine. Here's hoping soon. It is a pretty pink one.
I have not seen this one but I too have heard it is pretty and it is PINK! LOL A good friend sent it to me as a must have.
Gloria, I think you must have every brug made. LOL
wow kell, ptretty neat... you too have just about every brug too dont you?????
I have one isabella here that just finished blooming, I thought I was going to miss the blooms cause I'm going back to the states for a couple of weeks, thought it would be just my luck to miss it. But I didnt it......It was great.
Are brugs readily available in nurseries yet? I dont know how much things have changed in the three yrs that i have been away, any chance I could pick one up while i am visiting and bring it back to turkey? Like a double maybe???????
Hi Pebble. How are you doing? How long are you going to be in the states? Brugs are in all the nurseries here in Ca but the usual ones are the most plentiful: Frosty types, Charles Grimaldi types and double whites. Are you homesick yet for the states?
I actually have very few named ones anymore. I am more into seedlings, into possibilities.
What kind of double did you want?
Here is Dorthea today. I didn't repot it yet for I am afraid it will drop the bud for I would have to move it out from my seedling table then. I want the pollen from this bud!
WOW kell, that is a large bud in such a small "pot" lol
It is amazing to see a bud that is almost bigger than the plant. I would have not repotted it either. I have no idea what cross Dorthea is.....guess I need to do a search.
Hi Frannie! It is so good to see you posting again. I owe you an email, I will do it today!!! This must be a cross of Ludger's for it has his name on the tag. I was going to ask Donna for I think her Tatiana is Dorthea's sister. I vaguely recall Rubirosa was a parent.
It is making me nuts waiting for it. I am like a mother waiting for a birth. LOL. Today no change at all!!!
Pssst, whats the two cups behind it with the tiny maple leaved shaped foliage? What begonia is that? Inquiring minds wanna know!
Would you just look at those l-o-n-g tendrils.
Think Dorthea and Tatiana are from Rubiline x Rubiline.
Not missing too many brugs Kell, need a couple more, then I'll quit!
Ha.........
Are you keeping all yours, Gloria? I find I am tossing mine left and right. And I still have too many! LOL. They really do multiply. And I do think you are right about these PINK girls!
LOL Sue, we have to ask Lali. She gave me a bunch of begonia cuttings and a stack of tags. I was supposed to email her pics and get the name so I could put the tags in. Now so long after, I have no clue what I did with the tags. You know how I put off everything! They all did great though and need to be potted up and put outside.
It's hard Kell, but somebodys' got to do it. (Toss some brugs). Course, I could leave it up to Ed...........they'd be outta here in no time flat!
Wow, what a big bloom on such a little plant.
ohhh what a great big bloom on such a little guy.........
Kell, I am very homesic, and so excited to be coming home, I am sooo looking forward to be with my own kind.....lol....you just cant imagine how homesick you get to your own people. where we speak and understand the same language, have the same sense of humor, and have the same basic loyalties, I am sick and tired of having to defend my country, and im sick and tired of anti american sentiments......yeah, wish I were home for the 4th of July....but, since I cant, I will be buying those t-shirts from the gap, do they still make those? with the american flag and the year? well, the american embassy is always sending us e-mails to warn us not to call attention to ourselves and to stay away from crowds, but i dont care, i want to wear my flag with pride......
anyway, back to the double brug, have no idea...just was looking for anything really to add to my collection, will try to find some in portland, if not, i'll just live without them...lol...it wont kill me if i dont get one...
anyway, i always love seeing your brug pictures, you are such a great gardner.....
see ya
Oh Pebble, please be careful. All it take is one nut. Any chance of you coming back here to live? I am so sorry to hear how difficult it is.
LOL....if it were up to my Ed, mine would all be gone also, along with all the other plants.
Many of us are in the same boat, Frannie and Gloria. Our DH's would get rid of therm all. LOL
When I die, Tom is going to be ordering the giant dumpster before I am in the ground.
Oh Kell!!!
I am lucky my dh has his own brug alley of all the brugs I would toss. He also makes his own compost (copied mine) for planting them. His alley is called "The Trail of Shame". LOL. When Brugmania was visiting he saw the alley and laughed because the brugs looked so good. He couldnt believe it.
Here is dh last year working on the trail.
Here are a couple of his compost piles in the background.
Delisa, at least he plants some Brugs. That's more than a lot of us can say about our DH's. Even if it's the trail of Shame. LOL
You're a lucky girl! Would he notice if you stole a little of his compost pile for your brugs?
You have a boxer?! My best friend used to have boxers, and they were great dogs. Very intelligent and loving. I keep trying to convince her that she needs another one. I might have to give in and get one myself, but I can't as long as my Jack Russell is alive because he doesn't like other dogs.
Delisa, it is pretty neat that DH has an interest in brugs even if it is the Trail of Shame and I bet it is a very pretty trail.
What do you two use to make your compost?
You are so lucky you have the room too for his Trail of Shame. LOL. What a name. He looks like a keeper Delisa! We need pictures of his great achievements. I be this brugs are better than mine. LOL
There are some beauties in that Trail of Shame. I got a couple from there.
A little off topic but I couldn't help but notice your lovely pink plug tray in your photo kell. You are truely a pink nut aren't you!!
LOL Jeremiah!! It is very PINK isn't it.
And it passed its color onto this brug. I was told it was dark and that the tendrils went on forever and it is so true. Plus the fragrance is thru out the bathroom now.
Very nice!
Not bad for the first bloom on a little cutting.
I am off now for a day of sin with another Daver. Everyone have a great Saturday!
It is beautiful!
Rubiline x Rubiline .... from Monika Gottschalk's line of Brugmansia? :) A double or triple or quadruple would really be awsome. Wow!
Monika has quite afew in the Rubiline group that are this beautiful deep pink. Seems to me you couldn't help but to get a few in this same color if you crossed them together. Wish I owned them all. It's a pink to die for. .... drool!
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LOL Vicki.........I think all of Monika's are to die for and would love to have one of each of hers. Wouldn't that be a dream come true?
BrugNanny the compost is made of the oak tree leaves that we have in fl, horse manure, coffee grounds, chicken poo, any thing I can get my hands on. One of the surgeons I work with lets me go to his place and he fills my truck with horse manure. I also go to Newberry and pick up loads of goat manure. That I dont compost, its burned (when I get it) and I put it right in with Jungle Growth or just toss some on top of the dirt in the plant containers. When its burned it has the consistency of dirt, not ash like and doesnt smell. Here is a photo I just ran out and took of the goat manure I pick up.
With a recipe like that, you can't miss! I only get a couple buckets of Belgium horse manure from a friend.
Thanks Delisa. I don't have chicken or goat poop but I have plenty of horse and cow poop scattered over 59 acres so I guess I had better get busy gathering and stacking. Is there a reason for burning it? Another thing that always concerned me was the seeds that might be in it. I was also told that I could cover a big pile with black plastic and with our heat in 2-3 months if there were any seeds that they would not germinate.