It came without the label in a box during the winter and it has flowered
An Ebay cutting
And its a pink
Rita,
It's a beauty!
I'd like to be on the list for a cutting when and if you ever
give it a trim.
Louise
Just remind me when we start cooling down and I will start triming, it has been a good repeat bloomer. Rita.
oh it's gorgeous! I'd like to step in line as well if you have enough to share, just breathtaking! thanks for sharing the photos!
Laurrie
WOW looks like you ahve a tropical garden going on there. And what a gorgeous brug picture. You really captured its beauty. This is one of the prettiest Frosty types that I have seen.
Info from experts needed here -
Please explain what makes a brug a 'Frosty' type??????
Just trying to know anything to help me grow these plants.
Thanks,
Louise
I would like to know that one too. It does look alot like my frosty pink but it also looks like my Eternity. Is it just refering to the shape of the flower or the coloring?
Thanks all has been an interesting year, discovered that this country has grubs that eat tomatoe leaves and brug leaves,didn't have those in aust, just ate the fruit, then discovered that soil can be wormless, limey and rock hard, steep learning curve. All in all has been a delight and joining a forum is a first for me, one that I will hghly praise, just think a whole mob of excentric folk in the one place that probably were trees and plants in their last life.
Just remind me as we get over this heat and I will get some cuttings under way, and as a true addict you can always bribe and tempt my weak flesh with bits of brugs and cannas. Rita
Frosty Pink was the first suaveolens type pink we had in the USA. It is the very first pink many of us started our collections with.
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/2902/index.html
Note the long skinny neck, the angle the flowers hang (FP nods) and the pink rim on the white skirt.
Other brugs like suaveolens pink, USL Special, insignis pink, Isabella and a couple of others came later and they resemble Frosty pink from a distance. Therefore many refer to anything that has white flowers with pink rims as Frosty Pink look-a-likes. To the trained eye there are differences in each brug. Some of the Frosty Pink look-a-likes have versicolor blood in them that creates differences in leaf shape, the way the flowers hang, the shape of the edge of the flowers and differences in calyx and flower sizes.
Some American hybrids that were created in the early days were and still are scoffed at as being just another Frosty Pink look-a-like. I am guilty for having that same attitude about them at one time too. But thru the years Frosty Pink and its "look-a-likes" have survived the test of time unlike quite a few fancy smancy creations since then. Frosty Pinks and the look-a-likes deserve recognition for their beauty, their overall health and their strength to endure many environments.
Hope this helps ... :)
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Thanks, only a mere stick of an adolesent in this life but comes fom a long line of trooper blood genes.
V8,
Thanks for the info. A little here and a little there and
someday my collected knowledge will bear fruit in
beautiful brugs.
And I will be able to tell the people who ooow and ahhhh
about them, what made them that way!!!!!!
Louise
LOL Rita! What a thought. Whenever I am at the San Francisco Arboretum, I say "Oh to be a tree in the Arboretum" so hopefully I was! And a rare one too so I would have be loved and pampered for many years. LOL.
Hi Caren and Louise. When I called Rita's baby a Frosty type I was referring to those brugs that have a similar look to Rita's brug; the exposed neck, the pink rim, the full face nod (a favorite brug characteristic of mine), and the real short tendrils. I bet Frosty types are the most frequently posted brug on this forum. Everyone loves a good Frosty! They have such huge flushes too! A reliable brug for sure. I think it is the open face on them makes them look so friendly and appealing.
We used to see mostly whites but the pink ones seem to be more prevalent now as people are crossing 2 pink suavs or 2 suav hybrids or even a pink suav to other pink brugs. Lots of their seedlings seem to have that look in various degrees.
Some though are much prettier than others! Rita's is a real pretty one. I have seen ugly ones too, I actually grew a real ugly one myself. Had all the characteristics, but just was ugly! I think it was Blaine who had some exceptionally gorgeous ones last summer.
Rita, here is one of my favorite trees. I would like to be one of these. LOL!!
Thank you Vee and Kell for clearing that up for me and thanks Lou again for asking the question!!
That Tree is beautiful Kell what is it?? All it needs is some moss hanging from the limbs and it would fit right in here!
Kell don't know if read Enid Blyton as a kid, but that ree is what the Faraway Tree was written about.
Kell,
What an unusual tree! Where does the tree grow? In
your yard? It's one that almost speaks to you! Like a painting, you want to just look and look.
Anyone:
Next question - How much light does a brug (that is over-wintered in the house) need to bloom - flushes, even. Is light from a window enough, or are plant lights necessary?
Louise
It is covered in a kind of moss. I enjoy it at Filoli, a historic garden in Woodside, California which is a home to several of my most favorite trees. I go to just visit them. If you ever get to visit No Ca, you must go for a real gardening thrill.
http://www.filoli.org/
LOL Rita, maybe at the top of this special tree there will be Brugland if we scurry up there fast.
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.
A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;
A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;
A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;
Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.
Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree
Louise, I hope a person who winters over lots can help you. I have brought a few in my dining room over the years which is all sky lights and though I did get a few blooms, not enough for me to write home about. It could have been the kind of brugs I picked to come in though. Or it could have been me. LOL
This is a 400 year old heritage oak found at Alden Lane Nursery. They have about 6 of them that truly are spectacular in their height and their canopy spread. I just love huge old trees.
I wanted to say it looked like some of our HUGE old Live Oak trees. They most offten have spanish moss hanging from the limbs. It gives it a errie enchanted like feel. Its one part of LA I just love!!
Kell what a lovely poem. I heard it sometime ago and forgot it, I am so glad you brought it up again......
what a good job of Frosty history V- that is really a good way to let the newbees know what it is ...............
Rita that is such a pretty pink, and of course Pink is my favorite color. I know you will love it more and more as it grows. In your part of the county it will get quite large and the reward of blooms will be great....
This is Isabella the first Frosty type I had and I just love it. It is one of my best bloomers and fills the night with such sweet fragrance. I have them all over my place.
Congrats on the beautiful find..............
Dee
My very first brug that I purchased was a Frosty Pink from Logee's about 25 yrs. ago. I don't seem to have any Frosty types anymore, but think I'll look into buying one again. She is really very pretty.