Tell me why...

...this begonia pic is almost identical to the color it truly is, and...

...why this brug is a washed out pink???? Whatever, I don't get it. This is a Kell seedling that didn't bloom last year because I got her out so late. And, she bloomed late this year too, also because I got her out so late. I didn't photo her because of her blooms, which are very pretty, girlie, but because she had 25 large pods!! There was no way I could get more than these three in the pic, she is a sprawler and it rained. If I were to name her, she would be 'Arky's barefoot & preggers'. Thing is, her fragrance is heavenly, truly, one of a kind. No wonder the bees went after her, they were intoxicated.......................sorry this 2nd post is late, lots of traffic, I suppose.

On my monitor she looks, lavender.

Slighty, in mine too. She isn't, but I'd love it, wish she was. These blossoms just opened, she might be darker tomorrow, but I'd call her a true pink and pink all the way to her calyx, which is a cute star on all blossoms, so far, and the three star points turn up on the ends. I wish you could see that she has no bugs or mites. I'm just amazed at her pods, they were not here, then, seems like, all of a sudden they were here and now so big...

Gosh look at those tendrils. Is she a RK cross, Sherry. I love her. Is this one you named after one of your granddaughters?

I have trouble too with my camera picking up some pinks and have no clue why either. Very frustrating.

Thanks, Kell!! My computer crashed with all my info. I have a great new Mac, but won't be able to pick up my info until I have the old one fixed, but I'm almost certain she is LAxEP and resistant to the crummy bugs/mites, etc, apparently heat/humidity/drought and no food is her thing. 25 pods on one brug is big for me and she may get more as I still have bees/butterflies/moths and they LOVE her!! What I don't understand is that this year has been a really tough gardening year, but the leaves on my crapes are past spectacular, just gorgeous & they flowered, non stop all season. I wish I had paid more attention to her early on, I wouldn't have let her sprawl & maybe she would have had 50 pods. Do you ever open up green pods with any luck??

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Sherry, sorry you lost your information and hope you can recover it. I lost all of mine and all of my pictures when my computer crashed. Someday, I'm going to get smart and keep backups. LOL

Some cameras have a memory thing in them .
Somehow between focus and flash things happen . The flash is either absorbed or refected .
Try taking during the day with out flash .
It's best to take 3 or 4 pictures of same thing then throw away / delete what you don't want .

That is what I do Tony, I take lots and delete delete delete.

Oh too bad Ada and Sherry. It is amazing how dependent we are on these computers.

Maybe you will get a sucker grow that is straight and true Sherry and then you can restart her. Being bugfree is such a great trait.

You know, I have some great looking fall crapes too. One is so golden it is a hilight in my back border. We do not get lots of spectacular fall leaves here either so I am so happy. So your crape myrtles bloom more than once? Shoot, mine all bloom in September for the first time. I would just love to have blooms all season long. Do you have a secret to share?? LOL.

Here is a tree I saw the other day when I was leaving my doctors. I thought it was fake, I really did. I said to myself why would Kaiser put up a fake tree here. LOL. I have never seen purple leaves before. This tree was just so incredible. I need to ID it, it is an odd maple with squared shaped bark with odd growths. I know I knew its name once.

That appears to be a Japanese Maple, I have one. It was split by an ice storm a few years ago and I thought it was a goner, but musta loved it. It has tiny flowers in the spring. Mine looked like that one earlier this season but now have red leaves, tinged with beige. I know that sounds odd and not pretty, but they really are pretty, the tree does something different each season.

My Natchez White crape blooms justa bout all season, except spring. Most of the colored crapes bloom later but when they start they continue until late Oct, depending on the particular season. I've gone crazy for the purple and have three, as well as two true reds, Dynamite, & it is!!

Ada, I hope to be able to retrieve my info from my old computer, I just have to do it. I am backing stuff up this time. Sorry you had the problem, it's a real pain!!

tonyjr, I believe every word you said about the photos - out of a hundred, I 'might' keep one or two plant photos, thank goodness for the delete button. I will say that the new iPhoto is wonderful and so much easier than the earlier ones. Course I had almost 5,000 digis on the Mac that crashed, which I knew was happening and when I pulled up the pics to back up, the magnitude of what it was going to have to do, gave my computer indigestion and was all she wrote, whew!

Kell my sprawling brug has some straight trunks too, which will go in the bubbler, as well as the limbs with pods. I was going to open one today to see how they are coming along, but the day ended too quickly, as usual. Nope, no crape myrtle secrets except planting only selective plants that aren't subject to disease, that awful aphid stuff, mildew, mold, heat/drought, which apparently they love, I have never seen the crapes any more beautiful blooming, and now with their fall color show...

That's not a Liquidambar? With that central leader, and tall pyramidal growth, and color pattern?

Kell, that does appear to be a Sweetgum liquidambar as roughbark said. Whatever it is, it is gorgeous!

Barb

Edited because I forgot to answer Sherry! I had one of Kell's LA X EP Pod #5 grow out with blooms that leaned toward lavendar. Got the cutting last Spring from Linda and it had big 'ol honkin' leaves and flowers on it. Are you going to keep it for another year, Sherry? It sure is a pretty one.

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Thanks, Barb, she's a fun one with all those pods!! I grew LOTZ of Kell's LAxEP seeds and I find them interesting because most are quite different and they love their adopted home. I'm definitely keeping this one because she's bug resistant, likes suffering - heat - drought- humidity - starvation - I mean, I might never find another one, lol!! We might get a 5 minute freeze tonight or Sun night & I'm interested in seeing how long she can take it before I put her in the bubbler...

Mine did well with the first cold snap, but when it stayed in the high 20's through the night she shriveled up like an old wet hen! She is now in the bubbler as a standard WITH roots. We will see how this experiment goes.

Barb

I'm hoping not to have too much cold weather for at least a couple of weeks. We spend a week, or so, in New Orleans right after the first of Dec & I'd love it if I could make it until then, tho I'd have the GH ready, would just be a matter of harvesting the cuttings, I'm not keeping many. Course this could be the year the winter will wipe them out, we never know...

I need to get mine more ready for winter too. I am being so lazy. We could have a frost any minute. Last year we had one in November then not another all winter.

I love crape myrtles also. I have a few different colors. You can't beat them for mass color so late in the season.

So Barb, you have a lavender brug kind of, sound intriguing. I would love to see a picture of it.

With a name like roughbark, you should know your liquidambars. LOL I have never seen such purple leaves. Do you know which liquidambar it is?
THANKS

I wish I could show you one, Kell!! It bloomed between the time I fried my Canon and when I got the new one. It wasn't a figmant of my imagination.. honest! It wasn't lavendar, just had a blue cast to the pink color. Maybe it will surprise us both and that teeny tiny little bud that appeared this weekend will mature and open. It is in the bubbler, so I kinda doubt it will happen. But then, I doubted Miz Rosemond would open, too. Just goes to show you how little I know!

We may have to wait till next summer, Barb. It is raining here today and so cold. I am now on spring countdown. Your brug will give me something to look forward too. I am not a winter person at all.

Nor am I.. the older I get the less I can tolerate these frigid temps. It was 26 degrees when I left for work at 6:30 this morning. I don't like that! I am working on packing this fat hiney of mine back down to warmer climes. Not south FL because I don't ever want to live in that mess again, but maybe south GA/north FL or southwest AL area where my sister et al lives now. Higher zone numbers translate to longer growing seasons. Works for me!

Hahahaha, if it wasn't for cold weather, I'd never get anything done inside, I love cold weather, but there is no doubt that spring and fall are heaven...I love seasons and the changing of seasons, I guess it's in my blood...

Sherry, come on back up north for a visit....we got plenty of cold just for you, lol!
I just can't remember what your take is on snow. :)

Barb, I maintain I need the extra body fat to protect my delicate body from these Buffalo sub-zero temps. If I head for a better zone, I'm sunk.

looks like liquid amber to me but its rather small mine are huge.... it would probably have pokey balls if its a liqued amber.

I learned after Kell's second pic that we have those trees all over town, but they are HUGE. There are little ones and they all have the same unbelievable colors - this fall, the trees are spectacular!!! How can that be with the scorching summer, with built-in drought?? I thought they all burned up, and fell early in that kinda weather, leaving sticks in the sky from Sept, until spring. Not this year - the colors are blindingly beautiful, I wish I was an artist...

I think it is a liquidambar, Steph but none of those seed balls were on it or under it.

Well shoot Sherry, do you know what the name is? LOL. You are lucky to have those all over. In spring you have wisteria blooming and in fall these. PURPLE! PURPLE PURPLE town. You lucky duck.

I should have told you this earlier Kell. I did not forget, I fully intended to photo the wild, purple wisteria for you this spring. But, guess what?? We had an unusually dry spring, with a quick, late freeze, and the wisteria, dogwood & red buds hardly bloomed, I mean it was zero. Maybe that's why we are having such a beautiful fall, ya think?? Most often we have a wonderful spring, with a so-so fall - this year, it was the opposite. Me, I like it the was it's been this year, I prefer the bad news before the good news - but then, I'm from Arky...