I don't know if I'm breaking the rules, but Patrick is out of town, sooooooooooo. I just went to www.seedsprout.com to look at Earth Angel, which I have been planning on buying. The ones Bren has featured on her opeing page just blew me away! http://www.seedsprout.com/index.html

I'm not sure what to do now, I've had plans to buy Earth Angel since the Spring and now I see these which are all just unbelievable.

Michele
Jacksonville, Fl
Zone 9a
Nature, in order to be commanded must be obeyed. Sir Francis Bacon

Patrick and I just read this, and could not agree with you more ... makes your mouth water and your mind undecided unless you can have all of them. They are truly beautiful !!

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

Trying to choose between, New Orleans Lady and Jamie's Monkey Business, or those gorgeous double whites makes my head hurt! I'll have to see how much I have from selling my cuttings at the garage sale at the end of the month, whatever I take in will have to go for one of them.

Michele
Jacksonville, Fl
Zone 9a
Nature, in order to be commanded must be obeyed. Sir Francis Bacon

They are all so breathtaking. I may have to get New Orleans Lady down the road!

Linda
Zone 9
Jacksonville FL

Linda,
New Orleans Lady makes me want to dig up Herrenhauser Garten and put him out with yard waste!

Michele
Jacksonville, Fl
Zone 9a
Nature, in order to be commanded must be obeyed. Sir Francis Bacon

New Orleans Lady is my choice, also --- what a brug !!!

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

All gorgeous, aren't they?? Genevieve caught my eye as did Miss B Havin, who's quite unusual. Something to dream about for awhile.

Jarie
Rio Grande Valley, TX
Zone 9

Seed Sprout is a wonderful place. I hope to someday get Painted Lady. All the pictures that I have seen, she is just beautiful!!

Melanie
Kittrell, NC
Zone 7b

I think all of them are beautiful!
But Bren, that photo at the top is just too adorable!

Lynne
USDA Zone 9b
Heat Zone 10
Bradenton, Florida

I think Bren has some great plants, due to putting some thought into her crosses as well as growing some good crosses from others and only keeping and naming the best of the best. Nice stuff!!

ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5

Thank you all so very much for such nice compliments. We do try our best to offer the best. We appreciate getting orders but hopefully I will also have enough stock plants going by next year to be able to trade and share a few of our new ones. Next year has got to be better than this year. We normally get two crops of cuttings off of our Brugs and this year we barely got one from most of them. It has been a sad year. Hopefully we will get more shade houses up for next year and have a better season.

I think next year seedlings in the next year or two are going to get even better thanks to growers like Shirley who are willing to share the new genes to work with. We are also trying very hard to get a purple or as close to purple as we can. I really see this one coming in 3 to 5 years. I keep saving my seedlings with strong lavender tones and then breed these two back together. It is just so frustrating that it takes 4 months or so to get a ripened seed pod and then another 5 to 9 months or so to see a bloom.





Bren
Northwest, Florida
Zone 8

Bren, I cannot express how much I appreciate the efforts and hard work that you and Shirley put into growing these beauties so that others may enjoy them. I wish I had more patience (working on it), but until then, I will depend on you to keep up the good work.

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

I second that! Bren and shirley do some incredibly gorgeous crosses! I am all for a purple brug!!! I am seriously thinking about breaking the bank to get New Orleans Lady, but I would probably have to take a second mortgage out on my house for a Purple!!!! That would be so incredible. Keep up the wonderful work!!!


Linda
Zone 9
Jacksonville FL

Bren,
I think the ones you have featured will hold us for a long time while you develop a purple one.

Michele
Jacksonville, Fl
Zone 9a
Nature, in order to be commanded must be obeyed. Sir Francis Bacon

Bren is as sweet as her plants are, she is the greatest.

Ruth
Zone7
Mathiston,Ms

Bren & Shirley, you're the best. Not only are you talented in crossing and presenting new brugs but you're both so generous with your advice and cuttings. We're quite fortunate to have your input.

Thanks, too, to all the members who make this forum a success. It's such a friendly atmosphere for sharing great ideas.

Bren, we're looking forward to a break through in the "purple" brug department.

Jarie
Rio Grande Valley, TX
Zone 9

Ruth you are too sweet!

I had the pleasure of meeting Ruth and her husband Lawrence (I think...I am terrible with names) a couple of weeks ago at the Georgia Round-Up. We all stayed at the same Lodge and had the greatest of times. I was looking for a photo and in the few that we took, Ruth has her back to the camera!

Bren
Northwest, Florida
Zone 8

Bren and Shirley - the new brugs are GORGEOUS!!!!

I want ALL of them... (something to dream about..)


Bren - Dawna B. is in CONNECTICUT??? A fellow Bruggie in CONNECTICUT??? I'm so excited! Would you contact Dawna and give her my e-mail address? I'd LOVE to have someone local to share my brug enthusiasm with...

Thanks

Kathy
USDA Zone 5
Connecticut