Well, I've had a few brugs blooming, beginning in June. Now I have the season's first big flush coming on and the number of blooming plants, which recently dropped down to 3, is now 15 and others are about to join in.
Most noticeably, KBS popped open 18 flowers overnight and that's only about 1/5 of the blooms she's putting together for me.
A seedling I started last year, 1 of 3 Frosty Pink X Unknown, opened its first bloom. White, short corolla tips & NOT a nice fragrance.....lol...wanna see pics of me going at it with a machete?! Well, maybe I'll give it a more dignified demise, but this will be the 1rst brug I've culled. After nurturing it for 2 years, it's not easy, but I think I have the resolve to do it (after it finishes blooming?).
The moon will be full on Tuesday & I should have the largest array of brugs in bloom I've ever had. Coincidence? Maybe.
I will be taking pics as the show progresses.
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Can't wait to see your photos. I am in flower deprivation here. Just green green green lol. Any buds mine try to make just dry up and drop, most of them have quit trying. So I am enjoying others' photos for now. Sounds like everyone is having a strange year for brugs. It is interesting how brugs and will flower according to the lunar cycle, has anyone noticed any other plants doing it? I really need to pay more attention lol. I have a few passies that just started flowering again yesterday after a few months hiatus.
Patrick, I am so glad that you are having such wonderful blooms. It was 104 the first of the week and 100 predicted for today, no rain in site. It's such a struggle to just keep things alive. Cooler weather must be right around the corner!
I will have quiet a few bloom for me in sept And have quiet a few that have 'y'd now with buds growing.Alot of them are cuttings from the fall exchange So I doubt will sleep alot next month...I'll be too excited.
I've had my faithfuls blooming for the summer.frosty pink/unknown pink& seedling pink.Unknown always does the best,but this year frosty has grown the tallest.Frosty is about 9 ft right now with 4 trunks& 2 smaller sprouts.
Cypress gardens.Knightti.charles G have sulked.the first two have not even y'd and have grown slow.Charles the trunk bloomed in April& not since,then the one rooted trunk from neighbors yard gave one lone bloom in July.The returned plant from ground is about 2 ft with 2 trunks.Jean Pasco original has decided to grace us with a 'y' this year at almost 6 feet .Dr suess is doing better,the original must be shaded too much cause the rooted trunk is growing great& would have done better if was not a new bed.another one in yard that was in bed of cannas.I removed some cannas beside it and it grew some...so those may just be crowded.Its in front of chainlink& the 'y' is growing out the other side of fence& I wasn't paying attention. Jamicia yellow is growing,looks better the one has 'y'd,but no buds yet(Someone asked once about leaves following the sun....this one does.no leafs face the backside of plant when faceing the sun...looks like it grow on wall espliared...my hugs fig tree causes this,plus later in season frosty shades this plant)I got its color under control now and its 5 ft SIL haveing same problem(patricks cutting)she's still working on the color though...should be intresting....she gave it some triple calcuim joint vitemins.she also took home a bucket of my compost for it.
I can't wait for September though.I think my 1st one up will be Versicolor orange from Dott.
So whos everyone's faithful bloomers?Mine would be Unknown pink and frosty pink
I'm waiting for pics Patrick! We finally had a week of wonderful soaking rain. All my brugs look wonderful and are full of buds. Too bad we're so close to the end of the season here and probably won't have enough warm weather left for them to bloom. I had significantly fewer flowers then average so far this season. We're also back up over 100 and I don't know if they'll start dropping buds. At least my daturas have been blooming well. I'm having brug bloom deprivation Patrick I want to see your pics. lol
Karyn
Well Karyn, you'll have to settle for this teaser for now, lol. It's cloudy today & it may be a couple of days before good photo-taking weather, but I took this about 3 hours ago. I was setting up to take a self pic, with me sitting in a chair beside the brug for a sense of scale. My batteries died, however, & I hadn't recharged the back-up batteries.
This is KBS, which I got from Bren at Seed Sprout last year. It went from 18 newly opened blooms yesterday to about 3 times that today & more buds ready to open. It would make a little nicer display of blooms, but there's a basal shoot coming up thru the mother plant, as I marked in red.
KBS (my plant at least) would make a good brug to display where it can be seen from all sides...it loads up with tiers of blooms all the way around.
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
This message has been edited by Celtguy on Aug 25, 2007 4:50 PM
That's beautiful and I bet it smells heavenly. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we don't get an early frost. I'd love to see more blooms on mine but I won't bring them inside to open ever again. The smell of so many blooms inside a confined space was nauseating!
Karyn
Nice photo patrick. Wow, that basal shoot will make a good standard. I just got Naughty Nick and it looks like it is gonna get very tall before it Y's. I used to like standards better but have now changed my mind and like shrub styles better because they have more flowers. Your KBS looks beautiful.
Ok, I promise I'm not just trying to tease you. I've uploaded a lot of pics on my computer's hard drive. Now I need to find time to pick thru them and select some to move to Photobucket & on to my album here. For now, here's a pic I took tonight, just before dark.
The predominate brugs seen here are Betty Marshall & Pink Beauty.
Selma, I'm so crowded with brugs this year that I wouldn't be able to get more than 3 or 4 people in my backyard at once! I need to reduce the number of seedlings living out there before I'll have room to host the group.
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Thanks, Selma & Shirley. I took this pic at the point where the hummingbird garden meets the brug jungle. There are 2 pathways that intersect behind & to the left of red cannas. I've quit using one of the paths to preserve 2 daturas (La Fleur Lilac) that volunteered there & now "join hands" across the path.
Pink Beauty is a big hummer! Most of the blooms are at least 7'-8' above the ground. Betty Marshall kinda drug its feet this year, until now. I may have over-trimmed the root ball last spring.
Well, I've had my coffee & the Ibuprofen has taken the edge off yesterday's physical work...my "Labor Day" weekend of laboring needs to get back under way.
(Thank you too, Jarie.)
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
This message has been edited by Celtguy on Sep 1, 2007 12:21 PM
Thanks for the lovely comments, everyone. It is an exciting time, not only to have a lot of brugs in bloom, but also to have my seedlings getting so big. One of those has a good Y & yesterday I saw another just starting to show a Y.
I had my sister & bro-in-law come to visit yesterday afternoon, so they could see the "show" and then we went to a seafood restaurant on the shore of Puget Sound. I timed it so when we returned just before sunset, the brugs would be releasing their fragrance.
I have 2 plants of Pink Beauty, so gave one to my sister earlier in the summer. Last year I gave her a triple purple datura and when it bloomed, she carried the pot up and down her street to show her lady friends. When I gave her the brug, I told her she might need to get a wagon if she decided to cart that up and down the street! She compromised & has had the ladies come to her deck to see the blooms. Even her friend who is quite a gardener told her the brug blooms were the most beautiful flowers she's ever seen.
I wish you could have seen my sister trying to get up close to smell a bloom on the arborea that Allison gave me last fall. It has an incredible vanilla fragrance, often very noticeable without getting really close. But it was just starting to release its fragrance, so my sister leaned up into the plant to smell a flower. The potted plant sits on a bit of a slope & the farther my sis leaned, the stronger the image I got of her & the brug both tipping over. We had a big laugh over the idea.
I have "first blooms" open on some of my cuttings:
Peanut (poor plant is still very small, but looking good)
Little Moon
Alex
Delta Dawn
Gemini
Photos are still being gathered!
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Patrick, Arborea I believe are self fertile so if you get seed pods and are willing to waith the 4 or so months for them to mature I would love to try some seeds.
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And have quiet a few that have 'y'd now with buds growing.Alot of them are cuttings from the fall exchange 
So I doubt will sleep alot next month...I'll be too excited. 
.Dr suess is doing better,the original must be shaded too much cause the rooted trunk is growing great& would have done better if was not a new bed.another one in yard that was in bed of cannas.I removed some cannas beside it and it grew some...so those may just be crowded.Its in front of chainlink& the 'y' is growing out the other side of fence& I wasn't paying attention. Jamicia yellow is growing,looks better the one has 'y'd,but no buds yet(Someone asked once about leaves following the sun....this one does.no leafs face the backside of plant when faceing the sun...looks like it grow on wall espliared...my hugs fig tree causes this,plus later in season frosty shades this plant)I got its color under control now and its 5 ft SIL haveing same problem(patricks cutting)she's still working on the color though...should be intresting....she gave it some triple calcuim joint vitemins.she also took home a bucket of my compost for it.
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if your garden is about to bloom, we really should have another pot-luck, this time at YOUR place!!! <VBG>
