I just returned from a very quick drive to Denver and back to find my brugs blooming, with more getting ready.
For some reason I am having trouble putting photo bucket thumbnails up so here is a sideshow link.
Enjoying my garden
Sally

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Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Oh, Sally, I can smell them now! Thanks for the lovely tour. Mine haven't started to bud out yet. Hopefully soon.

Thanks, Sally, I needed to be reminded of what they look like in bloom. Your brugs are beautiful and your garden is lovely. I suppose you know of our heat wave, so I do not expect blooms until our nights cool a bit.

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

Well Sally, that's what you call a real "Welcome Home" !
I have 2 brugs blooming & more that are getting close...happy days are here.


Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

a wonderful welcome home, little moon is loaded with buds ready to burst forth and Pink Beauty is going to slow traffic, she is planted near the end of my driveway instead of the backyard. I expect a lot of comments. 7 feet tall and probably at least 40 buds on her, all dropping there skirts right now. I have a Pink Beauty / Emily Mackenzie cross that is also showing awesome potential. Over 7 feet tall and just starting to make buds for the first time. I love big tall plants. My perennials are very tall this year...lots of rain, wish I could share some with you in Texas. I certainly have not used my drip irrigation much this summer.

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Keep us posted on the PB/EM cross...sounds like very interesting potential!

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Sally you have some beautiful blooms. I especially liked the Inca Gold. I love the yellows and oranges. I bet it smells great. Doing Great for the pics.

Jason
Royse City,TX
USDA Zone 8a

a few more in bloom

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Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Way to go, Sally .........those are beautiful !!!!

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

They make me smile

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Sally...simply put, but it says a lot.
I wore a big ol' smile this morning...my NOL has her first 2 blooms open. The first is coloring up and it's just beautiful. Last year I had a seedling plant that is a NOL cross. I was very impressed & now I can see the strong family resemblence.

Patrick
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

I've never seen NOL, I hear she is beautiful.

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Oh, I hope my NOL blooms this fall.......

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

Sally, I have really missed the people on the forumn. I finally had enough of working for the government and left April 30. I found out it was easier to get a job with them than to retire. I had to deal with state retirement and federal retirement. What a mess it turned out to be. Mississippi has one of the top ten reirement systems in the nation. I am drawing 78% of my salary after putting in 34 years. The did cut my check by 200.00 cause my wife is 17 years younger than me. Now what has that got to do with my job. They have a thing where at Christmas the give you a 13 check, say I get check, beside my Dec. one of say 500.00, The next year they add another 500.00,and they will continue adding 500.00 each year as long as I live. I really had problems with so called social security. They really did not know what to do with me, cause of my 11 year old and 17 year old. But I get 700.00 a month per each child, I never knew about this, I told the lady it was about time they started earning their way. Two weeks ago I was up your way. A good friend and I drove to Maine. That is a long way from south Ms. We staid in a cabin about 20 yards from the ocean. Saw a moose, bald eagles and other critters I knew nothing about. We were about 30 miles from Canada, It never came to us that we two fools from the south had to have a passport, till we got up their. I don't know how I talked my way out of that one. I called my wife on the 4th, it was 103 here. We were so cold we had to build a fire, we found two heaters but none worked. I slept under 3 blankete, it was 47 at night and 63 in the day. I met a couple up there who were flower people like me. They were ver curious of the weather and what i grew here, as I was there. They were growing flowers that got to hot 3 months ago for me. I had some pictures they could not take in the huge lantanas I had. I am going to send them some brug. cuttings. They have a large sun room they can put in. All and all I saw all kinds of flowers I had no idea what they were. I took pictures, an of course got some seeds an cuttings.

Great pictures, Sally. I love the flowers and especially the Yellowstone pictures. They brought back memories.

ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5

Hey Larry good to hear from you. I navigated social security when my husband was ill. Quite a adventure, but easier than medicare to figure out. I decided to stay put for now, Mike left me able to retire, but I am unsure where I want to be. You should have sent a email, I would have put you up for a few nites.

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Sally, Your garden is beautiful with a nice variety of other plants to go with the Brugs. I like your stone paths too, double wide is a good idea.

Larry, Your kids will probably get SS until they turn 18 or graduate from high school, whichever comes last. When the 1st kid turns 18, the other kid's check will be a little larger. My Dad died when I was 11 & I got death benefits. It used to pay until you were 22 as long as you stayed in some kind of school. I went to a business school, secretarial science at college & then started beauty school before I got too old. My kids got death benefits from my 2nd husband. It only pays to 18 like retirement SS. If they are stupid enough to drop out of school (like my hard-headed youngest son), the checks stop & they are throwing away money.



Linda
Western MD
Zone 5b

I love my yard, when ever i think about relocating I figure it will be a nightmare to sell the property, you need to REALLY like flowers to want to buy this place. With all the rain this year which my various gardening friends blame on my extending the drip irrigation to the entire yard....it is a jungle.

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Drip irrigation...made me chuckle...I'd have to have it on from April-October 24/7

I'm finally getting some blooms.My faithful Variegated peach






faithfully 5-6 weeks and just re flushed after being done for 1 week and has more buds growing(won't be no 1 week turnaround this time) cypress Gardens,unknown pink,jamicia yellow. Bolero x AQ getting buds and dropping,but one might stay
I'd love to feel 54,my AC won't even get that low.best I can do is 64 and thats durring the night like 3 am.we stay upper 70s-80s at night.I get excited if I hit 72

Njoy


SE TX Z8b
Coastal~Tyler Co TX

Brugs in New England ROCK this year.


Jean Pasco



Angels Summer Dream


Little Moon


KBS

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



http://community.webshots.com/user/sallycummings

Angels summer dream would make a wonderful hanging basket, I don't have a strong enough place to hang one from.


Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



http://community.webshots.com/user/sallycummings

Pink Beauty/Miss Emily Mckenzie cross has started to bloom. 18 months from seed, it is 7-8 feet tall and 13 bud/blooms on it. Not bad for a first bloom. The shape needs some refining and will be pruned of some side branches when I get to it. The picture isn't great, but I think this one will get to winter over to see what it does next year. I have decided to be brutal this fall. The german double-year 3 - no blooms is out of here as are a few other less than grand crosses.





Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



http://community.webshots.com/user/sallycummings

Those are beautiful, Sally, and I am so glad someone is having a good brug year, because it certainly is not I !!!! This is only the sixth season of my growing brugs, and it has been my most disappointing. I am going to regroup and hope for a better season next year.

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

Sally, I think our cool and damp spring and early summer made our Brugs feel like they were in their native environment,mine are all blooming at the moment as well, a couple have big flushes on them.
Yours look great, I especially like the 'layered' look on the white one 'Little Moon' and KBS you have.

Canada 5b
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