I refused to cut of the buds when I chopped the brugs down. I did take off most of the leaves leaving only the small unchewed ones...LOL I have been rewarded with "blooms in the buckets"
Brug cuttings still blooming in Greenhouse!!!
It is Amber Rose
another view
Congrats! She's beautiful! :)
Mike
Here is one that bloomed and DH said it was beatiful, but I did not get out with the camera for weveral days so I missed it. Here are the droopy played out blooms, but I love the color. Not sure wahat it is
Lovely color. My Amber Rose was always very pale, almost white. I bet the room smells wonderful.
MM is in a pot and she is still blooming her little heart out. There are several spent ones on the floor below her.
Don't it just make you happy ?:*)
I just love her
Betty,
Here is a link to ZZ's Amber Rose in plant files. I think it looks like mine :)
Betty,
Here is a link to ZZ's Amber Rose in plant files. I think it looks like mine :)
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/133605/
Wow.. your Amber Rose is exactly like mine! LOL Great Color!
edited for typo
This message was edited Dec 2, 2007 6:40 PM
Wow. It is sure nice to see 'Amber Rose' again. I was send a cutting several years ago, but has not being growing it recently. I still think of it as Erics best hybrid. I think it was named after his daughter. I grow another one of his, 'Gypsy Queen'. It still bloom its heart out in my wintergarden. There was an enormous flush building up, when I moved it inside in the start of October and it is still opening new flowers.
I think that I could fall in love with 'Mountain Magic'. The flower remind me of 'Red Hot Pink' from Steve Prowse of Australia. I had the luck to import a few pieces of it and loved to see the first big flushes this year. 'Mountain Magic' are stronger colored, though. The last two years I have developed a taste for Angels that will bloom under GH conditions.
Who would say no to have them blooming all through the winter time?
What I can't get over is have them bloom after being cut down and placed in water. I have had some to do that that had never bloomed all summer. All my brugs were from cuttings received las fall and some of them were slow to Y and bloom. Almost all of the ones that did not bloom earlier this year had begun to develop buds a liitle while before time to cut them down. With the cooler weather they were taking longer to open. So I still thought I would never see a bloom. So that is why I decided to leave them and see what happened. They must love my greenhouse because I have only seen one or two dropped buds which is not much considering the amount of cuttings with buds I brought in. And the blooms are opening while the stems are developing nubbies. Almost every cutting has nubbies on them. Some were started two weeks ago and some just a week. Some of the nubbies are really big!!! I am very pleased because some of the cuttings are 6 to 8 ft tall! I should have BIG TREES next year!!!
I'll have to try leaving some buds on the larger cuttings. The first thing I do is cut off all large leaves and all buds.
I love it when my Brugs bloom in the greenhouse. I can alwayscount on Audrey Hepburn, Creamsickle and a pink NOID to bloom. I also HAVE to get some planted in the ground this coming spring as soon as we decide where we'll be living for the next six years. My DH's job is now too far to commute. We have had to postpone building a new house here on the ranch to move to Bay City. The one good aspect of that is that I'll go from zone 8b to 9a possibly 9b. If I can get DH to put in an automated sprinkler system around the house here, I'll put a few Brugs in the ground here on the ranch as well and see if they can get along with a little less water or put a separate timer for the Brugs.
I took off all the large leaves on all the cuttings and I left all the buds even on small cuttings they have opened. And it has not interfered with the rooting process at all!