I don't believe that anyone in the US has a lavender brug. Those folks sound like they are giving you the old line, "check's in the mail and I won't...." (can't finish the rest of that saying here). If I had one I'd be posting pics of it on every forum I could find. lol
Karyn

Unless it is a stowaway from the German varieties, this is doubtful, you say you saw it with your two eyes? but not flowering? Why didn't you get a cutting?

I saw the lady's plant that lives near me in her greenhouse through the window and she wouldn't let me in, lol. But I was able to verify that is was a brug and not a datura. She promised me a cutting in the spring. She said it was lavender blooming and had been blooming but got hit by frost.She is an older lady that said her some brought it home for her from a trip someplace. I will see about this one for myself when she gives me the cuttins. She didn't think anything of it and not talking about it like it was something special. I doubt this lady would know how to go on the internet so if it is one she doesn't realize what its worth. The other guy is from another forum and I am not believing him. I told him I would trade after he grows them out and I see it bloom. I am going to do one trade with him of a common brug for a tuberose and see what I get then will decide if I do any more trades with him.

good sensible Kristy :) Wouldn't that be exciting if it really is one that developed and because of ignorance, was only passed on to a few.... What a dilemma you will have if it is Lavender! sell? tell the lady??

I would buy it from the lady with a receipt, just in case it is for real, so you then have the right to do what you want!

I will tell her its rare after I get the cuttings, lol. Yes, buying it would be a good idea but she said she would trade for another color. I went there to look at a lawn mower and just happened to see the homemade greenhouse and asked to look at her plants. She doesn't sell them. I was standing on top of a riding lawn mower to see inside when I spotted it and almost fell off when she said Oh, thats a purple one, lol.

I'm sorry I have to agree with Karyn1, show me the Brugmansia photo!! Do not take their word for it. Two,
a Brugmansia bloom this time of season is not the true color, greenhouse or not. Sorry but this make a person feel, well not right??? If this was brought over across the pond, beings that they have a lot of viruses over there I too would walk the other direction!

Kristy

I'm cutting in line for a cutting of a 'Lavender' brug! :) If only it really existed!? Wow - what a delight!

Mike

LOL Kristy.

Since she wouldn't let you in to the garage to see it - and obviously wasn't willing to share a cutting with you now - don't tell her it's rare (nasty grin) - and trade her a Charles Grimaldi. (grin)

Lol, you really should have seen my face. This is how it went. Can I see your plants? Its too cold but if you stand on the lawnmower you can look in the window. I only open it the door on warm days to water. Here I go up the lawnmower. Is that a brug back there in the corner. Yes. What color is it. Oh its purple. PURPLE! Stunned look on my face nearly fall off. Oh well kind of lavender. Are you sure? Yes, it has been blooming on and off since last year but it got hit by the frost. I see obvious frost damage. Again are you sure its lavender? Well yes I'm sure. Where did you get it. My son brought it back from a trip. He is always bringing me things if he sees something unusual that I don't have yet. She does have some unusual plants. Do you know where he got it from? No he travels all over. I have brugs too. Would you like to trade a cutting of that for one of mine? Yes that would be nice but I'll have to wait til the weather warms up and see if it survives. (Its about 5 ft tall) Couldn't I go get you one of mine now if I'm very careful? No not until later. I won't open the door today. You should have seen me sweating. I go around the yard and try to buy various other garden stuff she has laying around all over. No I am keeping that. Dang not interested in the 20 weed eaters, lawn mowers, dog kennels and bird cages she has collected from junking and is trying to sell. My mind keeps returning to the brug. You sure you can't just let me squeeze in for a minute, lol. No but you can come back this spring and see my 30 foot Lady Banks rose bush in bloom. It is unreal. Climbing a full grown tree. I will be back for sure. Get in the truck with my husband. He says whats wrong with you. I say she has a PURPLE brug! He said why didn't you get a cutting. I TRIED, lol. I will be going back and check on it later. I'm afraid if I get too pushy she won't share with me, lol. I tell him buy the messed up lawn mower that she wants $150 for so I can get my brug, lol. He says I don't want that piece of junk. I think I'll call her and see if its still available and tell her if she will swap cuttings with me I'll take it, lol.

Kristy

Very interesting story! lol! And share a cutting with me! Though I can't use a $150.00 useless lawn mower!

Mike

I will see how many I can talk her out of when the time comes. Of course I will share with as many of you as I can. Wouldn't it be something if its real! I sure hope it makes it. She has it in an unheated homemade green house. I actually think I will call her. I should have done it today. It was 80 degrees but I didn't think about it being warm and her possibly letting me in today, lol. I washed a car we were selling instead and I got it sold so I will call her tomorrow. That would be cool if it is something at least unusual. Hubby is a mechanic. I can make him fix the lawnmower but he didn't want to fool with it. You had to start it with a screw driver, lol. Mine is ancient and really falling apart.

I seriously doubt she has a purple or lavender. Maybe pink with lavender hues...Many hybridizers are trying for lavender hues/tints right now in order to breed them out to get purple or lavender. Ask her where she got it lol, or what the parentage is.
If she just has a few brugs in her greenhouse, she prob isn;t a serious grower, hybridizer, or collector~so what are the odds?
I am growing a few diff. crosses and supposed to be looking for lavender hues when they bloom. I know some others are as well. These are all from brugs that are in the pink catagories and just have tints of lavender. We can't get purple because we don't have blue to cross with pink but by trying to bring out lavender, perhaps purple will come someday.
I think there are some sanguineas that have more of a lavender tint to them.
I have heard that some other plant hyb.(not brug hyb.) will use browns to get bluish tones. There aren't really too many brownish tones in brugs either-

WOW!! What a wonderful afternoon in your world..Not much here..LOL I would just love to peek in the greenhouse.. That would be really cool ..I know you probably have plenty to share but if not let me know I will donate 3'+ tree just to see if it is real....GOOD JOB!!!
Kylie

No, Lennette she isn't a hybridizer or a grower. Just an older lady who loves plants and her son brings her things from all over. I doubt it is really lavender either but will see hopefully. She only had 2 one she said was pink and the other lavender, lol.

Lets not forget that several years ago 3 lavender Brugs were introduced by German Growers! So it is entirely possible that she got it from here son, who only had to be over in Europe to get one!

She said she would ask him where he got it but don't know if she remembered to or not.

Great story, hope it turns out that she does have a pruple!!!
And that she doesn't charge a first born for a cutting!
Mickey