This is a brug that I was calling It's My Baby until about an hour ago when I decided it needed a permanent name. It will now be known by its name of Sweet Cakes.
I've had Sweet Cakes for two years. She has dainty blooms and a slight resembelance to an Arborea the way her petal edges are formed. This is a Rosa Zauber x Charleston cross. I recently checked the registration list at ABADS to make sure this name was not previously taken. To see how delicate she is, please click on her picture.
ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5
This message has been edited by ChSam on Sep 2, 2007 4:18 PM
Shirley, Sweet Cakes is a lovely pastel pink. When you call her "delicate", are you also referring to the bloom size? While I like blooms of all sizes...and am impressed by large blooms, I currently have a special interest in the small-flowered brugs. I'm enjoying Alex and Gemini at the moment.
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Ohhhh, Shirley, that is sooooo beautiful, and such an ethereal pink! I would love....NO! if I got all that I love, my half acre would be totally overrun!!
Thanks everyone. She will darken up some and I'll get a picture of her after that happens.
Patrick, I guess size would fit also. I wasn't thinking of that when I said delicate. She is a small plant with small blooms, compared to most other brugs.
Very fresh and delicate pink. There goes that tendril thing again lol~ You always seem to get those nice tendrils. How does she smell? How great to have those charleston genes!
I also am liking smaller flowers now. I have a particular thing right now for those fat little double flowers where the top of the flower tube is partially covered and the bottom of the skirts are really full. Don't know why lol. Nice curly tendrils are always a good thing too
This message has been edited by Lenette on Sep 2, 2007 6:19 PM
Here is Sweet Cakes tonight. When she bloomed last year, she was in the house in October and her blooms were a lot darker. By the way, she nods just as she looks. Maybe just a bit higher. I was holding down a leaf to take the picture and it may have pulled her down a bit.
Shirley, her skirt edge is simply gorgeous. It's one of the most unusual I've seen in a brug. She's brightened up a bit but still delicately soft pink. Love her.
She was still very lovely today. Looking into her "face" makes me think of a nice morning glory. I'm glad to hear she's rather diminutive...nice to have some variety in the smaller brugs.
Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place
Thanks everyone. Now, if I can just keep her alive long enough to see her bloom with a full flush. It appears that it won't happen this year. What a terrible year it has been for most brug growers.
Another beautiful flower. It has been a disappointing year for brugs here also. Of course my plants are now loaded with buds but many/most are so small I don't know if there will be enough nice weather left here for them to open
Karyn
I agree this has been the worst year for brug growing I have ever had. Mites, hot winds, caterpillars in the buds, you name it lol. Of course the temps we had been having, had even our night temps in the low 100's. That is what killed off some of my bananas- those 100 degree nights where it doesn't cool off at all, really seem to do the tropical plants in, worse than hot days and cooler (90 degree) nights. Really, if I was planning to stay here, I would not grow brugs at all and just stick to plumeria, bougies and cactus.
