Lucky!!! They are beautiful!
German Brugs blooming
I Love Christmas...truly love Christmas !! But seeing these incredible pictures has me in the "Think Spring, think Spring" mood !!!
My wish for everyone is a wonderful Christmas and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. God bless you all, Margo
Thanks, Margo! Wishing you the same!
Brad
Kell,
I found two seedpods on 'Cerise Wonder' yesterday! The bees have been very busy in my brugs as nothing else is blooming now except brugs and more brugs. They could have been crossed with peach versicolor, white suaveolans, pink insignis, or, several of the other German ones as they are all in close proximity to one another. Also, my melon kisses and peach versicolor have seedpods. I have never grown from seed before, so this should --hopefully--prove interesting for next year.
You will love growing seeds, especially your own. Good luck!
I can't say which I like the est all the blooms are out of this world.
Mickey
What a collection you have there! I bought my first brug (Equador Pink) through a mail order catalog a couple of years ago and left it in the pot in my screen enclosure .... it didn't do much so last spring I planted it out in the backyard .... it bloomed for the first time a couple of weeks ago, only 2 flowers but so pretty. Didn't have any fragrance at all though, which surprised me. I thought all brugs were supposed to be fragrant! I got 2 small brugs in my first trade here on DG and they are in small pots, looking real good and I'm going to plant them in the yard in the spring! I didn't even know they came in red .... I WANT a red one ... That 'Joli' is gorgeous and I really love that 'Rosalla' and 'Cerise Wonder' .... and, well .... all of them! Just Beautiful!
Thanks for sharing your wonderful photo's!
Lin
I would like to share something I learned at the RoundUp this fall at joestellean's home. She had a tray of brug blooms that she had dried in her home. Each evening, they still had a fragrance. That is amazing to me - that a dried bloom would still know when night time came and still be giving!
Louise
I have a question for brugs-lovers out there. Do these plants actually produce seeds where climate favorable? And with many varieties out there. Is there a purple color brug? The reason I asked is that someone brought a brug cutting to a round up, and identified it as a "purple brug", the stalk looks like that of brug (not datura), as I thought I could differenciate one from the other by a mile away.
Kim
Wow! I am drooling here over all those beauties. I thought that Joli had single blooms, but its a nice double too. I have grown Rosalla once and had one flower which was a double. They all look nice.
Kim, there are a few Brugmansia that is close to being purple or lilac. It happens when the pink or rose color has a bit of blue in the mix. Personally I can not say, how purple exactly they are, but here is a link to three of them, so you can see them and come to your own conclusions
http://www.kirchner-abel.de/site/neu2005.htm
A few years back there was another blue Brugmansia in circulation. In fact it was a plant belonging to another Genus, Acnistus which have smaller blue tubular flowers. Acnistus is also called mini-angelstrumpets by many.
Yes, Brugmansia will set seedpods in both cooler and warmer climates. I know that matuira pods were harvested in zone 4 in Norway last winter. Warmer climates such as Florida and California is no problem and the pods matures faster here, because of the heat and longer season. I am in zone 7 as you are. Here the pods develop relatively fast during the summer months, but in the winter they develop slowly and spend a month or two on stand-by.
Seeing is believing!!! Now how do I go about ordering these beauties? LOL
Kim
OH I loved those purple flava's! Also am drooling over the photo of 'Angels Summertime'.
Delisa, I can't belive that is real. I bet you could do a lot with it.
the seeds Of Joli are the best..[ first picture here ] I got 100% germination on them... looking foward to these flowering... and the other German seedlings as well.. Gordon