Like everybody, we are experiencing scorching ( drought conditions, until this week) weather. My poor little brugs are trying to show me that they are worthy of the extra care I feel they demand. Here is a first bloom on what eventually turns into a peach-pink flower. I am thrilled that a "know-nothing about" effort has been so positive. There were more than a dozen blossoms, and I am told the evening scent is out of this world!!! Oh, how I wish I could experience THAT!!
I am so happy for you.......it is pretty thrilling to see them bloom under adverse conditions. I think they are pretty tough plants with some being stronger than others. Congratulations on your pretty blooms.
Im so happy for you gessi! This is my first summer and first blooms with Brugs and like you I couldnt be happier!!
Caren
Oh how pretty they are. Well done!!
Barb
What a great job you have done. You know more than you think. So does this one have no fragrance? You will have to grow more!
Kell, this one has a very pleasant odor I am told. It is I who has no sense of smell--it drives me crazy when I have no point of reference (having smelled it when I did have the ability to smell), to associate with the plant. For instance, I can imagine the smell of a rose or gardenia when I see them because I knew them earlier. Not so with my brugs, my family tells me these are very fragrant --- I just have to take their word.
She's beautiful,,, Elaine
How did you lose your sense of smell?
People here all the time report how the different brugs smell like different things like baby powder, fruit, vanilla etc. Maybe they could tell you what it reminds them of so you can relate better.
What wonderful coloration.... Good Job!
It's so wonderful seeing people post their first time bloom experience here. I share the excitement with you. Wish you could enjoy the fragrance though. I have one brug when it blooms that reminds me of a freshly opened honey comb. Some remind me of baby powder and gardenias.
Enjoy your Brugs!!!
To all of you who are describing the fragrances you experience with your brugs--- Thank you!!
I am beginning to realize I can at least imagine what they might be like--and I guess I have the advantage--that I can make them whatever fragrance I want--(that was suppose to be funny--oh, well).....any other suggestions on what you sense can only help make my experience more meaningful !!
What if I couldn't SEE them--so what have I got to feel negative about?? ("I complained that I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet")
Exactly, not being able to see them would be the worst thing ever I imagine! I actully do not love the fragrance of brugs. When you have a lot flowering it can be overwhelming. However I would walk miles to smell Arborea.
Very well done! I love those bi-colors to pieces! I have a friend up where you live who stopped growing brugs beause of the hoards of insects that seem to live there and eat everything in their path. Congrats on winning the war as well!
Oh Thank You Kell! Thank You Thank You THANK YOU! I'm not particularly fond of the smell myself. I've been terrified to say so as I might be labeled as a heretic or accused of blasphemy by the brug police! Same thing with Datura. The only time I like the smell of either is if I get an evanescent tendril of a fragrance that immediately disappears.
X
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LOL X. We must give the brug police something to do! Better they go after you than me. I am shoving you out into the aisle. LOL.
I kill all datura that come to my yard. I just do not get how I do that. I bought 2 of the double purple swirl ones a few weeks ago and worse than killing them ........ I disappeared them. I think they looked around and freaked and just disappeared. For the life of me I can't find where I put them.
