Brugmansia in Australia. Spring 2009

Wayne, a wonderful opening to spring, thank you.
Hello Chrissy, I hope to have a photo gallery like yours soon. I was out yesterday talking to the angels and found that Elfin Pink has a tiny Y with a tiny first bud. Also one of the Frosty pinks has a tiny bud too. Of course there are little buds coming on GHA as she never stops.
One of my seedling crosses has two lovely trunks ( not a Y but grown from the start) but is now devoid of leaves with tiny tiny new leaves forming. I will cut one of the trunks and plant out .It is one of the crosses from The Chief so I hope something beautiful comes from it.
My BB x GHA seedlings are going to have to go into tubes today as they have reached the top of the propagater box. The GHA x BB are coming up well now. I am looking forward to warm waeather to push all the large angels towards flowering. Jean.

It's quite intoxicating up in the Far North right now. Lovely dry weather is making all my brugs flush. Some for the first time. I'll start with Zabaglione, it's been amazingly prolific in it's flowering! Ann

And Lipstick Pink has flowered for the first time. I can see it has alot of Equador Pink in it but a deeper color. Thanks Maya :) Ann

Avalanche has turned out to be a real beauty. So many flowers on such a small plant!! Ann

Ann ,your 3 lovely babies are all growing well here now. The cold hasn't seemed to bother them but they are in the greenhouse. Polar comet is by far the biggest of the three. Looking forward to flowers . Jean.

Aurea is such a sweetie. Think I'll move a bit to a sunnier spot and see how it fairs. Ann

Jean, I'm glad to hear. They weren't very pretty to start with but I hope tough. Remember any problems and I'll fix it :)
Aztec Gold flowering away. I'll post more later, the kids want to go to school. Ann

Good morning everyone ...who drank too much strong coffee last night *blushing*.
I thought some of you may not have seen this yet ...although you cannot understand the Language ...the magnificent pictures are worth a look (though I must say it's a bit confusing to see some "names" here that don't appear elsewhere.
Enjoy these lovely blooms (and improve your German ^_^)
http://www.gartenfreunde.eu/viewforum.php?f=12&topicdays=0&start=50
just click onto the names ...it dose not take long to figure out what double ...white ...orange etc means in german.
jean every multi cot grows 2 trunks so watch that one because we are tracking what these multi cots may mean ...it is thought that they carry more blooms.These multi cots (and many more) came from the Alphonse Mucha crosses, I think this is quite unusual the 5 cot is unique in that it may be the only observed one so far.Hopefully thise may mean huge flushes in the future though it may mean zilch ...great thrill though.
here is to our new plants of the coming season.

Ann how wonderful! I have a great fondness for Zabaglione (same genes as Alphonse Mucha) both lovely Angels ...it must be very exciting up your way, we are all very excited about your new garden I know it will be spectacular!
Happy Spring!
Brugmansia Lipstick
(in a heatwave) interesting to compare.

G'Day
This is a genuine request for information not a snide remark.
Chrissy, all the Brug flowers I see here look wonderful. So what makes "FFA" better than any other yellow Brug flower or "GHA" for that matter? The "Old Sydney Apricot" seems to get good publicity but no excitement over its performance. I suppose from my point of view what constitutes a poor or bad Brug flower?
Here the Brugs are so few that if one is alive and flowering it's a good one as far as we are concerned, whereas you might say that it is so bad it should be removed.
Brian

Chrissy, the seedling with the 2 trunks was not a multicot as I understand the meaning. Looking at yours from last year, I see a difference. My little one was just a normal seedling at first but developed the tiny Y as it grew its 2nd lot of leaves ( or is that first set of real leaves ?). It was still a baby then but the 2 trunks have developed well and are nearly identical in size, both coming from just above the soil line straight up to around 2' tall . Do you think I should leave them both on the plant and see what happens ? I can always cut one off later. I have a second seedling of the same cross but it has grown normally with one straight trunk. Funny though , that one has not lost a leaf and is very strong and green. Just went out and snapped pics while the sun was out.
Jean.

The kindergarten tribe waiting for summer. Waving to auntie Chrissy.