I bought 2 cuttings of Flamenco on eBay that were supposed to look as the picture attached. Instead I got a pale pink. Is any familiar with Flamenco and had any luck with it?
gyped!
My double pink is suffering from loss of color, it started almost white and just got a tinge of pink on the edges, I attributed this to too cool and no rain
hmmm, it is too cool and no rain here, except for on 7" frog choker. I am hoping that the hurricane that came on land in Wilmington will work it's way west, but I doubt. The normal path is straight up the east coast. The onces we sometimes get rain from are the ones that come into the Gulf and then works it's way east. This last one did not do that.
I have had the same problem with some of my brugs. Is there any research that suggests soil might affect the colors as well as temperatures? Thanks
Brug colors are so influenced by weather that they may look different in other parts of the country. A few years ago, I sent my mother cuttings of an old favorite — Rosemond — which normally exhibited a good pink color. My mother plant produced flowers like the one below. My mother's plant never developed more than a pale pink color and then mostly along the edge. She was so disappointed with its color that she finally yanked the whole thing out. She lives in Fremont, CA located near the southern end of the San Francisco Bay. Her backyard is influenced by the corridor cut into the coastal mountains for Highway 680 so it's usually not as hot as other parts of the city.
The temperatures in the San Francisco Bay Area are generally mild. While the daytime temperatures may rise into the 80s and 90 (a 100 here and there to make life interesting), nighttime temperatures are cool, downright cold in some areas. Much, much different than temperatures here in central Texas where the temperatures rise into the 90s and 100s and stay ther until fall. We're lucky if the nighttime temps get down in to the low 80s or high 70s.
Maturity of the plant sometimes influences color. Give your cuttings a chance to mature. If the color doesn't improve over time, then it could be that in your area the color may not fully develop.
How about a picture Woodspirit? Flamenco usually still has a bi-color effect even when the flowers are paler. Perhaps you can describe the other color on the throat of the flower too?
I haven't grown it myself, but there are many, many pictures of it on the other brug forums, and even the paler ones are usually distinctive.
BTW, like Betty said, the dark red edge it can get is in the hottest weather.
- Tom
This message was edited Sep 9, 2008 11:15 AM
BEautiful Rosamond, I had forgotten how pretty it was.