My first butterfly ginger opened tonite, 2 months late due to the dryness here.
Lovely evening of scent
Maya knocked my socks off going out the door, poor thing is crowded with too many brugs. This is just one of 3 branchs, she usually shows better.
Then these's Golden Lady, sweet little blooms get hidden by all her big leaves, the entire bloom is just 8" and her scent is brug + perfume.
Kyle's Pink surprised me with her dark color and recurve, she's a soft brug scent.
Cypress Gardens is still going strong, compare this photo from the one 4 days ago on the Breathe Deep thread!
Last but not least, Sweet Autumn Clematis is blooming, just above her is a perennial pink moonvine--have no idea if it's scented, it's too high up :(
Here's the moonvine a little closer, very pretty lavender pink with darker center. Anyone else have one?
I have a moonvine but it's totally different from yours!
Found the moonvine http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/69456--almost! Mine seems to be a perennial and has very different leaves.
I love my "real" moonvine, sadly the seeds didn't come up this year :(
Well, if I get seeds this year, I'll send you some!
Gorgeous Vi!!! Dmailed you, btw
My bf ginger is just finishing a bloom cycle - oh, it does smell wonderful!
Viola: Looks like you have your vines on a utility pole. Am I right? I've been wanting to do that to hide the darn things and DH says I can't do that. I keep saying, "Why not?"
I want to do that too!
I sure do and the Elect Co has been out several times and hasn't said a thing! First one I encircled with chicken wire, the second just has a passion vine so far. My thoughts are that when they used to have to CLIMB the poles it was a different story-now they use cherry pickers. Also, as long as your vines don't reach the light & transformer which could cause a problem (so don't do honeysuckel or wisteria that you can't control). Tell your hubbys this story, lol.
They recently had to install a new pole & I asked if they could just trim the old one instead of taking it out--they did--that is the one in the photo--still thinking of what to grow on the second pole besides the passion vine ;>)
That's nice! I'm thinking morning glories, I think they're very pretty but I'm affraid of plantint some IN the garden....
Viola: Thank you for the tips. I'm going to put some vines on my poles. We have two of them down the driveway and they look hideous.
violabird,
I know what you mean about the butterfly ginger. The scent is just incredible. I can't resist getting closer to it every time I walk nearby. It is a 'lovely evening of scent'.
Pam
Y'all can just call me 'Vi', lol, so much shorter!
Pam if you think that one smells good, you should find Pink V.--OMG! Sadly it doesn't travel as far as Butterfly--but perhaps when it starts increasing...
Vi,
I'll be on the lookout for 'Pink V'. I love citrus scents also! That is what I read about this one. Is it true?
Year three...still no blooms on Butterfly Ginger (pouting now). How hardy is the 'Pink V' - Vi?
I just read it is 'root hardy' to zone 7.
http://www.gingersrus.com/cart/index.php?productID=3212
Hmmm....another for the want list.... ^_^
Chantell, I have a divided h. coronarium. ;)
-Joe
Hey Joe!!! Was just thinking about you...gathered seeds yesterday from that purple datura you were interested in...something else you'd asked about cuttings...can't remember - do you?
h. coronarium?? Hmm...gonna have to look that one up. Suppose you TOO get yours to bloom eh? The Thai Pink Profusion I have bloomed last year and this....no scent though that I could detect...just my butterfly being so dang hard headed.
I wouldn't call the scent of my Pink V citrus at all! It's rather deeper and more mysterious like jasmine or gardenia.
Chantell, BF Ginger, is very hardy as most of them should be. When I first dug some up in February a few years ago, I had so many that they stayed (without soil) in black trash bags on my South facing front porch. When I took them out in April to plant they were already sprouting in the bags! They love heat. Next spring put their black pots on hot cement or blacktop, water well and watch them go, or wrap the tubers in black plastic in a hot area. Our hot summers can start in May here--we just didn't get enough rain for them to thrive--no more listening to the weatherperson for me!!
Oh my, Vi! Now you have really peaked my curiosity about the 'Pink V' ginger. I'm going to have to get this one and check it out.
Hey Vi - if you find you have "extra" of that Pink V to trade and would be interested in the Thai Pink Profusion...let me know early spring. My gingers are IN the ground though...not in pots. I don't dig them up...they get the heat when Mother Nature brings it....
I'll see what it looks like in February when I dig and divide my whole ginger bed. I saw the link for Pink V and now wonder if that is it--it was ided on the Ginger Forum and remember that a gal named Lisa from MS or LA sent it to me just for my name! I know she had a nursery, wish I could remember her DG name.
Matters little to me if the names right...I'm all about the scent and what you described sounds WONDERFUL
Mine didn't bloom this year. I am thinking by the size of the shoots and the tubers, next year will be their year. :)
I think we talked about my datural black currant swirl -- I have seeds. Alas, the double yellow has not set seeds. :(
As for a cutting, you have Chuck. Dear Chuck. Chuck Hayes.
:)))
-Joe
Ah yes...and he's actually put on growth...I could give him a trim now or wait till spring...let me know....