Kell,
I have been a bit shy at stating that I will take as many brugs - no matter the color, size, shape that anyone will send me - seeds, cloppings, roots, I am despirate! Brug fever in Utah, that is a bad thing. I don't even have a greenhouse - yet. I can't believe you are throwing so many away. I will send postage, packageing, anything. :). Where shall I meet you? I will bring a trailer. (Heart pounding....settling down...) (Well, sorry I did get carried away didn't I?)
Now, back to the sensible me, WOW! what a beauty you have there. Your yard is so georgeous. People say my yard is pretty, they haven't seen pretty 'til they have seen yours.
Just rename beauty ---- Kellifornia!
Marie
Fun tendrils
Love the Bougie, Kell. I can't imagine one ever growing that big here. You've really grown some beauties.
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Wow, that is too cool. Can you tell the cross of this one ... other than she has a double pink as a mom.
Hi Debbie! Long time no see or hear! How are you? I probably shouldn't mention it out loud, I wouldn't want to get anyone in trouble, including me. LOL You know how the brug police can be.
Joan, your bloom is so huge! Did it give you a big thrill?
Welcome back Brinda, you need to come out of the coleus forum more!!! LOL
Hi Linda! I am going to go to Orchards today on Acalanes Road. One of my fav nurseries. Do you go there? I suffer from California small yard syndrome. My yard looks more like a nursery these days and sadly not a great one either. LOL. I never do wide angle shots for I like to give the illusion that I have an incredible yard. LOL.
Marie, no promises, but if I get it together I will try to send you a box. I have a line in front of you though.
Ada, thanks. You have some beauties too!
"California small yard syndrome", yep me too
"looks more like a nursery these days"... yep, me too
"sadly not a great one either"...uh, ...ditto!
"never do wide angle shots for I like to give the illusion that I have an incredible yard"... I got em' all fooled in the daylily and coleus forum, I think!... Sigh...
Which is why Kell and shop so well together! Tomorrow's our big all day marathon.
Whoo Hooo!
It's an illness I tell ya! A real fun illness though. :-)
Kell, It just blows my mine when I see one bloom. I have never seen these blooms in real life so every one is a new and wonderful gift.
Love to see what you find at the nursery. Have a grate time.
Oh I wish I was there with you. I know I/we would have a blast. Have fun, I will be thinking of you while I am working.
Kell, no pressure. I am just enjoying all the pictures and comments. It has been a fun forum.
I have posted pictures in the photo section. If you have a minute check it out. Marie
Oh Marie, your yard and grandbabies are so beautiful!! Thanks for the heads up!
We left at 8AM and started at the San Francisco Arboretum. We went to about 7PM!! Our last stop was Longs at 6 when every other nursery had closed on us.
We had such fun! So Lali who is into begonias hugely, Sue and myself both into anything that will grow, and Zuzu, a true rosarian, all found things we just had to have.
Somehow I got so sore from spending all my money! I hardly can move today.
Ekk, uh, did you guys know that cameras put on 10...no uh, 20 lbs?? Yep, they do. :-)
I got to see Ilie's Hetty Krauss again and I must say it still is HUGE and still has a great attitude. I might venture to say it is the prettiest brug I have ever seen. We all got rooted starts! We almost mugged him there was such a clamoring!
It is huge and gets dark orange and has a great personality. So not boring.
Pic from last trip.
I was so blown away by that bloom that I forgot to even take it's picture! And my camera was hanging around my neck..sheesh!
It truely is the biggest bloom I have ever seen, and my favorite brug color.
Oh Sue, I do not know why this pic came out like that. You are so thin, this is misleading. Though you still look so gorgeous, as usual! I call her Pretty Sue! We forgot to take another picture like we planned!
Talking of Pretty Sue, she is a true friend. Willing to go to jail for a friend in need, indeed. THANKS SUE. I am still laughing and my hand is outstretched and my mouth is making weird and needy sounds.
Sadly, I was too busy doing other things to even think to take the brug's picture yesterday! Though I am here to report it looked the same. INCREDIBLE!
Ilie and I went off on an Arboretum jaunt to get me hot pollen. And the second tree he has of it, also had those spectacular blooms! I was so excited that as he was trying to put the pollen in my little glassine bag I grabbed the Kelly clamp and dumped all the anthers on the ground. He told me to stop helping him. LOL.
The San Francisco Arboretum is a truly wondrous place. We walked along here to get back to the girls. Why I do not spend every day there, I do not know.
Hanging out with you Goddessii as DrDon calls us was a HOOT! LOVED every minute of it! Don't know about you all, but I'm whooped! Done plum wore myself out - I think we literally shopped till we dropped. It was about 10pm by the time I finallky got home. You know after bringing Zuzu home, it's hard to tear one's self away from her amazing garden. (better padlock that green/lavender petal hydrangea Zuzu! -kidding).
I somehow missed all the brug excitement you girls had! (probably a good thing!)
Thanks for a GREAT day you girls!!!
Lali, you're welcome to dig up any hydrangea I own. There's more than enough here for both of us.
Kell, Sue, and Lali, you are the most fun ever! We've got to go to the arboretum sale every month. Does anyone remember the name of the jasmine I bought with the red flowers? Predictably, it's the only name I don't remember and it's the only tag I can't find.
Kell laughed when I leaped on one of Ilie's rooted Hetty starts, because I'm not known as a brug addict, but why on earth would I not want something that made everyone else so excited?
LOL Zuzu, I have no clue.
You guys should have come with me today. What a garden!! Then I come home to my pitiful place. I came to the conclusion today on my fifth walk around this incredible small garden that 1. I need bamboo and 2. I need to to get rid of Tom. I need someone who has an aversion to grass and wants to be garden slave who can also cook and clean. Oh and has money. Preferably owns a nursery.
I have 2 extra passifloras from yesterday ............ I hope I didn't pay for them. I have to check my receipt. I am always in such an adrenalin high at plant sales I have no clue what is going on.
Zuzu, I'm at all the sales. Can't seem to stay away! So you're welcome to come with me anytime! Thanks for the hydrangea offer, perhaps a cutting? The one Kell has is an amazing one too! have you seen it? (Kell can you hijack your own thread with a photo of it?)
And you did buy the passiflora, I remember it! One had that incredible long (pardon my lack of flower anatomy, I should know better) neck?
Zuzu, email me a photo of the plant with flower and I'll bring it with me next week and get the name.
OK, I just happened to turn around and snap a shot of your wagon of plants. You can see the two smaller leafed ones on the right side and then on the back left, the pink Strybing hybrid and then the pretty leafed one in front of it.
Hey Kristi, if you see this pic above...that begonia in the front of the cart is one I picked up for you. A Paul Hernandez I think.
Lali, I bought 4 passifloras for Susie etc. but I came home with 6. At least the 2 were not doubles of any of the 4 I picked out by looking at the leaves. I can't count how many are in the cart there, Sue. I wish I had room here for more.
I should post my pink one,Lali so I do not ruin my reputation. LOL. Remind me and I can bring you a cutting on our next play date.
How sweet that hydrangea is! Is that Buttons 'n' Bows?
Here's my jasmine, sitting nicely on top of the garbage can:
Here's the view from the other side, which shows the true color of the blooms. Gorgeous, aren't they?
That's a jasmine?! Gorgeous!
We fell in love with the huge shrubs of these, the Fuchsia paniculata
With the flash it looks pinker but it's more lavender.
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I CAN'T STAND IT! You are having so much fun and I am here watching/reading about it!
I am glad you had fun oogling and buying plants and being with friends. Is oogling the right word? Well, something like that. I am coveting the plants, climate and friends. My sweetheart would just die if I brought home many more. He has been really cute about it though. I do ALL the gardening, He comes out once in a while to see what I have done, otherwise he admires from afar.
Oh, please put names to the picture of the three of you. Right, middle, left.
Thanks, I am glad you had fun. Marie
Marie, I am the one of the far right, the blond. I am not sure any of our husbands admire our gardens, even from afar. LOL
The big one was pink Sue, the one up the hill was more lavender and the one next to the big one was dark pink. We need 1 of each. LOL
Zuzu is the only one that got this and she got 2. I have a little one from last year.
I have no clue Zuzu what that one is. I bet Lali knows.
This is the cool place where Lali gets to work every Wed. as she's a volunteer at the SF Aboretum. I could have spent hours just loking through all the propagating areas.
This message was edited Jul 9, 2006 9:50 PM
Hey, Kell, Sue, Lali, and anyone else within driving distance -- the next trip is to Lone Pine and Sonoma Hort on Thursday, okay? We need some Cantua buxifolia.
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=cantua+buxifolia&btnG=Search
Well shoot, I already have one of those.
Zuzu, do you believe that cantua flower cutting I was wearing on my name tag looks as good as it did yesterday, and it's still in the coffee cup, no water (no coffee either LOL) - That's one tough plant!
You know I'll be there! Hoping to get one of those climbing onions too. Need a new weirdo to put in the greenhouse.
Kell, but do you have one of these? http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/systematik/7_bilder/pis/pis00554.jpg
The one we saw at EB ($139.00 -OUCH! ) was 'Hot Pants'
Here's an orange one. http://pharm1.pharmazie.uni-greifswald.de/systematik/7_bilder/pis/pis00557.jpg
Me too!
But they are not PINK Lali!!
Hey, that one I pointed out to you was $139?? Are you serious. Wasn't it in a 5 gallon? I bought mine there at EB in April. And I assure you I didn't pay $139.
I have to go over to San Mateo for a lunch date tomorrow and I am already planning a stop at Golden Nursery when I leave. I am such a sick one.
I have been wanting a yeller one! Ohh and orange too!
Sue, you and I have such similar tastes in a lot of plants until you go get into those little itty bitty ones.
PS and until you want an orange one and a yellow one too. LOL
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Kell, it was a trained standard in a 5 gal can. That's probably why such a high price. Funny thing is it would likely be very easy to make a standard out of it based on it's growing habit!
Pink, yellow, it's all good! I just NEED one! Besides, I'm not one to be the odd-woman out and not have one. So if you two have one, you know I gotta have one too!
And to try desperately to stay on topic, here's Butterfly that Kell generously gave to me at the Garden Show. (Gosh Kell, how long has it been?)
Making no attempt whatsoever to stay on topic, Sue, Lone Pine has millions of little itty bitty plants. No matter how little room you have left in your garden, you'll be able to fit hundreds of Lone Pine's plants in there. I bought this adorable tiny Pleione there for hardly any money at all.
Got mine at Annie's they had them when I was there last week and thy are pretty quick growers.
Kell got one of these too, my color, I may have to start getting some of these eventually.
Just looked it up, It was March 16. http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/583627/ (I dont see it in the SB, just Mrs Fred T. Scripps)
That's sweet Zuzu! Looks almost like my bletilla.
