I was thinking we all seem to need a giant cheer up. Even Dott seems to need a fun boost even though she does have the best brugs this month!! How about a photo contest?
Prize: a double PINK cutting! A good size one too.
What should we do this time? Worse looking bloom? Best looking sky? Any fun ideas??
Kell,
don't have a picture to post - have never had a bloom yet!
But, I have to say - YOU HAVE OUTDONE YOURSELF
ON THIS BRUG AND ON THIS
PICTURE !!!!!!!!!
Oh! to have this one - OMG, OMG, OMG !!!!
Louise
I really need that one Kell!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kell you are sooooo bad, that is a gorgeous photo!!
I do too, need that one.
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Hey, Kell, please make the contest easy enough that even I stand a chance. John
How about something totally different, like most interesting/beautiful picture of a Brugmansia leaf....or most unusual Brug pot....or most unusual/oddest leaf damage....or best picture of Brugs "folding up" at night (certainly others have noticed that?). Just a few ideas to get us all thinking.
Kell, that is a great prize!
Erick
Yes it should be something we can all take photos of. I would think maybe some wildlife....or what is the most unusual thing you've seen.........or a cyber scavenger hunt.........hummmmm yall jump in here soon as you can.....LOL
Dee
Oh no............... LOL.................. I am not sure which double pink it will be. I did this just now on the spur of the moment. I need to see which one has the most cuttable material on it.
I know these all go for $$$$$ on ebay, so I thought it would be fun to give everyone a chance to get one.
So Erick, you really think a brug leaf can be beautiful or interesting? You have love dust in your eyes. LOL! Well, maybe a variegated one.
Kell,
Yes, I do (though admittedly a bit of a stretch). I tend to support the underdogs in life....Brug leaves get no respect. They are battered, beaten up, dropped at the whim of mother nature, infested with bugs and diseases, subject to every sort of damage, etc. and yet play such crucial role in the health (and blooming) of the plant.
Certainly we can all take a picture or two of a healthy lush Brug leaf against a cool/unusual background, or at night with a flash, or spilling out of a new growth tip, or emerging from a bare stem, etc. Whoever makes Brugs leaves look the most beautiful (by whatever means), wins!
Or, Kell, you could just send me the cutting and the rest of you can enjoy it vicariously through the pictures I post next summer!
Regards,
Erick
hi everybody the picture i sent miss emily makenzie one blossom on a three ft plant. bob
I will need a pick me up since all I have to look at right now is faded blooms lying all over the yard : ( I just got lucky with all of the big one flushing at one time.
What a great prize to offer Kell. I'm sure there will be a lot of entries trying to get their hands on one of the dbl pinks. Such a generous offer.
What a beautiful bloom. Have singles but no doubles. Judy
How about cutest grandkids. I have lots of those. LOL
:`-(
Well dang! I had to go and cook my camera! I'm gonna go pout now... and sing the worm song... and mutter and mumble.
SadBarb
Gee kell there you go again YOU TEMPTRESS
Kell that is great. Every one has leaves and Tonny can join in and I will grow out his DP for him and send him reports on how it is doing. How a bout that Tonny. Joan
As usual, beautiful Kell. Just when we all want to give up you tempt us again.
Your EDW X (something pink that I can't remember right now) has a few very small buds. It budded up last year late fall, but the buds fell off when I moved the plant into the gh so I've never seen this one bloom. I only have 1 surviving plant from seeds I started in 2004 (I think), the mind is turning to mush.
Newbies are important to a forum because they revitalize with fresh new ideas and observations. Clearly, the contest should be a picture of the best non-flowering brug in Tussee's garden. The more leaf holes, brown edges, certainly no blooms, would be given high points by the judge.
Tussee
Thanks anyway, Tonny, but I have my own slugs, but I may need to look into a weed burner this fall.
Tussee
I just saw your pink on the front page Bob, I am going to your thread next to check it out. It looks just like the kind I love - dark PINK!! You lucky duck.
You offer a persuasive argument Erick, but I have just got to say a whole thread of brug leaves no matter how artistically done, do not captivate my imagination for too long. LOL. Sylvia, I have seen your grandkids and they would win most contests! No fair!! LOL.
Oh Linda, mine has already turned to mush. All my EDW seedlings bloomed double white, a few quite pretty. I think you need to cross it again to a firm pink to have a chance at double pink babies.
I am thinking how about a contest for the prettiest picture of flowers. Any kind of flowers, taken anywhere but have to be taken by you this weekend. Everyone should have access to flowers at this time of year. Take a walk in your neighborhood! What do you think?
GREAT! idea - Kell.....gopherit!
Carol
Kell, I think that sounds like a great idea. There are flowers everywhere this time of year!
Erick
LOL Carol, I can see you smiling as you are looking out at your Hawaiian smorgasbord of hot flowers. I think we are in big trouble. LOL
Great Erick, I bet you can get take great ones. Thanks for being so supportive and gung ho. It is people like you that make this sort of thing fun for all.
what about the strangest piece of garden art you have ever seen? My neighbor has a pretty strange one.
Blessings,
Sandy ^8^
Sandy, I am pleased to see your back and I hope all went well with your husband's surgery.
Tussee
Kell I am ready to go.
Well then, lets begin!!
So ANY kind of flowers???
:-)
Any kind, Kyle!!!
woo hoo my plants better start blooming lol
wheres my silk heliconias at... LOL..
Kell is this one entry per person and also what time is the cutoff??
Let us know.....
Dee
Kyle, lets see your silk. LOL
Dee, you have till Monday night 9 my time. Post all the pictures you want, taken since Friday.
