Contest..

congrats to the winner and thanks for the fun contest!

Congrats to the winners and thanks for everyone who played along!

congrats to you winners! that was fun to watch....;D

Well ipodding along....I do have a morning apoi tment for restoration of my connections. The folks down stairs had an apointment today but My service is still out though.
So. I'm tho king there should be more winners. Perhaps of just what I want to send. I ll have to figure it out when Im back better

so sorry to hear about your connection problems... so very rude of someone to mess up everyone like that ... especially without warning so you could get arrangements made before the loss. Hope you get it taken care of soon... I understand the "mini messaging" is a pain unless you are one of these kids now days that lives on their blackberry or some such device... personally, I love my PC and even avoid the laptop whenever possible.. just love the BIG keyboard and screen!

Congrats to the winners !! Thanks for the contest. I got a lot of smiles from it :) Hope the cable gets back on soon. I bet you are having fun with the iphone though :P

Hi Wallaceone...yes I'm another Wi brug lover. I am hooked on these plants.

Well..what a relief..back online.. cable TV..and my vonage phone ..they had fixed the buildings/neighborhoodsproblem... a few days ago..then they never plugged me into the new working block..
thecable guyeven brought up apackage for me..a red sang.. I Can barely remember ordering one...must have been many months ago.. as the red sang seedlings I have of this one I have are about 4 times the size of this one sent into me..I bet some of the leaves I have on my sang... are bigger than this plant... but what a guy... to deliver it for me...
OK.. where's the wisteria photos ...to start with..

oh, they are so beautiful! tell me, what do I have to do to get a piece of that? adoption fee/postage/ 3rd child, just what?

here's another ..OT but requested picture..

What a beautiful Wisteria and a great shot of the NY skyline.

If I had gotten a Sang in the mail delivered by the cable guy, my DH would have gone nutso, Course I wouldn't have to tell who delivered it, would I. My CRS could be the problem especially since I didn't remember ordering it.

Well.. Tiger...There might be seeds of it about.. from last year.. I cut a new young vegative limb off today.. it had grown into the vent on the skylight of the hallway.. and down through some of the glazing channels out the bottom of the skylight.. in no time at all it would have lifted the entire skylight..right off the roof.. I can dig it out and send it to you for sprouting... it's in a rampant growth phase so it might work.. and give flowers faster than seedlings.. do you root cuttings..
this vine was in a clients garden.. and he wanted it out of there... thinking it didn't bloom.. they had these two lovely young lady gardeners managing the growth aspect of things.. I tried to talk them out of it.. saying I could turn it around for them... to noavail...and to my ultimate benefit..
well here it is again... if the subject is still getting play... also .. you can see the cool room / greenhouse is down.. and in it's place the green 40% shadecloth is visable on the right side of the photo..


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Gordon the wisteria is beautiful and all the pictures are just gorgeous. Glad you got your cable/internet back. Good luck with the little Sang.

manificent, Gw! the color is fantastic! Their ultimate loss!!! and yes, I root cuttings! could I please? please?

WOW if you send out cuttings of that Wisteria PLEASE put me on the list, I would gladly pay postage.



Doris

Well D Mail me addresses... with a subject of wisteria cuttings.. I'll have plenty through out the year... as it reaches out to take over the world...
Here's some of the new seedlings healed in in their 1 litter bottles..

OK>>The prize requested byVeronica is the Goldness Kornett X from seeds from Tonny in Denmark.. t he seedling plant to be sent to her is pictured on the left..[ from the requestforprizepictures... my red sang seedling is on the right.. back when I thought I wanted an alternate seed/plant line of the sangs.. and was ordered back beforeI can even remember.. this arrival delivered by my cable guy is pictured in the center..
well Clemen.. what's your prize thoughts...are you able to have one...or should it be awarded to another guesser..

NOooooooooooo I want one of your babies, lol. Tell me what can I have??? I want the prettiest please! Haa haa!

What a fun contest. Congrats Clem!
I was out of town and just catching up. I think that the little Garden Gnomes get in our basements and GHs over winter and create more plants. Last Fall I gave away all my cuttings to make room for the 20 new ones I bought. LOL

Betty

Thank you Betty, now I am just tapping my toes until Mr. GH tells me what I won, lol!

From his pictures I would think you can't go wrong with anything you win from Mr GH

We are making him sound so important now, lol! Still tapping the toes, lol!

Gordon glad you are back ONLINE and your Wisteria looks so beautiful.

Lucy

HI Betty.. you won also there was a secret word contest imbeded in the contest.. saythe secret word..and a duck comes down signaling you won... Gnomes was used in the posting... and the valadation comitee asuresme you were the first one to say Gnomes here..
Well Clemen... is it a bigger plant you're looking for.. or a smaller first year plant.. if you're picking up.. you have your choice.. and now Betty.. the choices are
Serendipity X TaylorsDawn [pictured on the contest start ]
magic mountain x miss Emily Mckinsie
bergkonign x doubledark rosella
sweetheart x cassies curls
axel rose x america
Goldness kornett x magrethe seedling.. from Tonny in Denmark
Aborea
rubiline x vickies vision
sorry.. can't say what any of these crosses will be looking like

Hey trouble maker Mr. GH, I want something that will bloom this year, you tell me now, lol! grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr you are making hard on me, haa haa!

Oh Gordon what fun. Just surprise me. I don't think Aborea can take our heat. I raised two from seed and lost both the second summer.
I do love the one that you posted on your first post. Or one from Tonny would be fun too. You know me, I'm not picky as long as it is a plant. LOL

Betty

just come on by Clemen... see what it is here you'd like... surely all of the bigger ones will be blooming... likely most of the little ones will also be blooming... this year... but there is a slight chance that some of the smaller ones might not... I've had a few that didn't bloom the first year during my time growing brugs..

Bait bait, ha ha Mr. GH..You are BAD. Now since I am working everyday, need to convince Hubbie to go to the roof over the week end, grrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh maybe tomorrow or Sunday, are you up for it??

sure.. I've a busyday saturday.. metro gardening is meeting in my park on the corner.. and likely some up here.. and a roving CA friend is about Saturday also.. sunday I have a 1 pm rescheduled from todays rain...gardening remake consult.. I'm free from say 9- 12 sunday.. and after 3:30 here then...
OK..Clemen... this is a new lookat the videos..
http://tempesttorch.com/1how-it-works.aspx
perhaps not real PC... but knockout georgeous...

oh.. you might want to place a bet on #7 in the derby... Papa Clem

Well, I missed out! Congrats to the winner. Plants are just so addictive! It is a good thing that I live in zone 6 and don't have a GH yet. I love brugs.
Teresa in KY

Gordon, those times unfortunately do not work for us this week end. SIght!

Anyway, looked at the plants you offered I think I would love bergkonign x doubledark rosella. Looks very pretty in the pictures. Have a good week end even if it is raining!

congrats clemen !!
oh theresa mine made it through the winter in the den and the ice storm with out a green house , lol dont let that stop you ! of course they could look better lol
there are some great ones on the marketplace ; }.

I have had them Dana I just would have more it in a warmer area

Gordon, my Brug arrived Saturday. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I'm potting him up today.
Veronica

Welll Veronica.. that's good to hear.. did it unfold well upon opening it.. did it seem to have made the trip OK..
I've got to get the prize plants out to the other two that were winners.. perhaps tomorrow.. and get some pictures.. so I can post a pile of the European.. and fine American crosses on E-Bay...
Also.. I feel another contest comming on.. I'll have to formaly post it..but it seems it might be.. another ... how many ... contest.. like how many plants actually got included in the garden.. on my roof top...in the perimeter containers along the fence.. and the ones in individual pots/planters .. sprinkled through out.. the botanical research facility here..
it seems to have skipped being a garden.. but you can start figuring it out.. from these clues.. you did so well before..
So.. clue #1
it's under 96... minus the three prizes.. here.. and at least two winners in the next contest.. you can do the math.. well under it is...
clue #2 .. the look/ theme as far as the brugs go .. is a Brugmansia hedge..
A' La the hedge row brug plantings / wind breaks ...around the coffee fields in Panama.. or a pruned boxwood hedges of English/Irish castles
The other general look.. is a night time deal.. we've a lighting accent.. a sofe blue glow from under or behind all of the plantings.. along with the regular night time lighting.. kind of a 50's Miami.. X with SpaceMan Rock-a Billy from the same time frame.
Fifty might be the answer.. but I don't think I could fold that many in.... but I can't say.. as there's been no peliminary count .. There will be a new thread, to post answers.. and help divest myself shortly...

Gordon, When I unpacked it the growing tip was bent at a 90º angle. It's a good thing I didn't tug on it to straighten it out because I would have broken the tip. The plant was nice and turgid. The leaves will straighten out in a few days. It might have been growing that way for a short while.

It was nice of you to include an extra gift. LOL! I sliced the side of the box open and reached in to cut the tape. Wow! ... a plant and a serenade too! The buzz gave me a scare. Turned out to be a small bee. It'll have to fly a long distance to get home!

OH..thanksVeronica.. I'm always looking for feed back on packaging.. 20 people will approach it 25 different ways...
OH..sorry for thefright.. Ican't believe there wasa bee in it... there are so few here anymore..after the spraying one summer for west nile.. oh we're spraying at night..we won't hurt the bees..
I keep thinking I'll put out some humming bird feeders for them... and remove the bee guards.. but we've a number of things flowering now...guess I got a few to drop by... funny thing here.. is I have things flowering... that these bees would never have encountered... gong back thousands ofgenerations
too bad...thy would never accept him into a hive there.. I don' t believe...and he could never make it on his own..
welll good growing there... sure we'd all like Prize pictures when you have flowers next month

oh mercy i got to watch better where is new contes??i want one to bloom so bad. so i must try once more..lol. your wisteria is beautiful i tried 3 or 4 times from seed never a sprout so seeds i was sent must been old or?

Heh Gordon

Great post here and always look forward to what you have to say. Im not gardening much this year as my condo burnt down. Look forward to more pictures





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