Yeah! I'm so happy for you. I have one bloom on my old faithful noid and a few with buds so I am excited right along with you.

Very nice Lucy :)
Susan

Oh you are so lucky Lucy....My Flamenco cutting DIED...BooHoo...I can't wait to see yours bloom :)

knotz

I am so
Happy For You Lucy!!
Be Sure Post Pictures
When The Blooms Open.!!!!.

Chocolate Brug

Post pics when it opens. I don't know what that one looks like. I stll get excited when I see the first buds of the season. For some reason my Butterfly sent out buds before foliage and the buds are still bigger then the leaves. Very odd. This will be the earliest I've ever had a plant that was dormant over the winter bloom.

Congrats Lucy! :)

Thanks everyone. Most of you know what the FIRST discovery of a bud feels like.

Karyn I put that photo in the album from the Flamenco from last year. My goal is to let it show how ONE species changes over the years. IF I can keep them alive over the winter lol.

Yesterday I also saw Candida double white is putting buds on. So far it is going well.

Pictures WILL continue to come. Do not worry lol

Lucy

Yay Lucy, soon those buds will open up and you can take pictures to show us. Same as Kristy, a noid (pink) has buds for me, but I also have one bloom on a small Shooting Star!

hey, awesome! take lots of pictures when it opens! :D

I've been dying for a flamenco for some time now. where'd you get it?

Ria

Eloise and where is the photo of your shooting star? :-)

Ria got it from SeedSprout last year but I have seen it at a lot of places for sale.

Shawn got a link to a place that has em?

Lucy

Lucy, here it is; I said it was small, but the scent is delightful, LOL!
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Eloise thanks. rofl because that beautiful flower is bigger then the stem and the pot. Amazing how much they want to bloom isn't it :-))

Lucy

Hey that actually looks like a shooting star coming from that stem!!!! I too have my first buds of the season, a noid white and yellow!

Mary

Congratson the buds Lucy! Can't wait until they open. I see tiny buds on my 'cerise wonder', but I doubt they'll hold.
Sorry, the only place I saw Flamenco for sale was country gardens but they are sold out right now.
Shawn

aahh! how is it that I have such a small wishlist and you guys manage to tease with stuff from it, LOL.

my shooting star cutting and a bunch of others kicked the bucket when the heater died a few times over the winter :\ I hope I can live vicariously through your pictures, LOL.

Ria

Ria when I will take cuttings...I will think of you. But it will be a while. I like that one bushy.

Lucy

awwww, Lucy! I wasn't hinting, but thanks! I really appreciate it :) for now, mass pictures will do :D

Ria

Hello Lucy,

Did you start this Flamenco from a cutting or did you purchase a plant? Do you have any problems with it? I have a cutting of this that I am struggling to root. Tried water, with no results so I cut the end off and planted in a pot. Still waiting....

Can't wait to see pics of the blooms!
Tammy

Tammy if you click the link below the picture it leads you to the photos of it from last year.

I bought it as a small plant. It is one of my best growing brugs. But it did not even like the midday sun. Even used a big umbrella to give it shade so the flowers wood not wilt in hours instead of days.

Now it is in a almost shady place all day.

Again, this one also roots like crazy and easy for me. I took cuttings all year long to give it this shape. Just put the end in some rooting hormone. Stuck it in a small plastic pot filled with MG. Sunk it in the soil behind a big bush so it would be in the shade all the time while rooting. The warmer days will make it root a lot faster!

Good luck.

Lucy

Hello Lucy,

I happened to click the picture earlier and looked at the other photos. It has really pretty blooms. Sorta looks like photos I have seen of Adora, but different shape maybe. I have that one rooting too. It seems to be doing pretty good.

I will move the Flamenco to the shade. I had it inside by a window when I had it in water. Then I moved it outside when I potted it up. Then put it in a little heated sunroom I built onto a storage building as we were still having cold nights. Since it has warmed up I put it (and other cuttings and tropicals)outside. Brugs are getting parital sun/shade. Funny thing I was looking at the brug cuttings this afternoon and one new one was gone! :(
I had broken off a tip of peaches and cream when I was moving it outside and so I thought I would pot it up too. It disappeared! Don't know if it was the rabbit, groundhog, raccoon or birds that visit daily/nightly. Hope it didn't kill whatever got it. I talk to much, sorry! Thanks for the info!

Sincerely,
Tammy

Tammy you are so nice to worry about the animal that got your brug cutting.

I would not worry to much. It might make them sick and they throw up or what have you. Hopefully it teaches them NOT to come back for more.

If you can not root the Flamenco, come fall I will have plenty to share.

Lucy

Oh Lucy, Thanks so much for offering. Hopefully one day I might grow some big brugs to share.

I am a critter person. My cat brought home a baby on the night before Easter. I was over in my storage building fixing my son's Easter Basket and putting out The Big Lighted Bunny. (He is only 16 but the tradition continues lol) When I came towards the front door, I kept hearing something. I was out in the front yard shining my button light and finally found it. It was all wet but not hurt. I think it was in shock. I thought it was a mouse at first. I kept looking at it and finally got the nerve to pick it up in a papertowel I had stuck down in my pocket. It was a baby flying squirrel. Needless to say I have now have to be mommy to it. haha I tried to take it to the woods last week. Left it in a tall tree and went home. Breaking my heart of course:(. About 2 hours later I went to check to see if it moved on. Poor little thing was in the exact spot I left it in. I got it and brought it back home. haha I was worried about it. It's a crazy little thing. Has grown and fluffed up a bit. It rides around on me like I am a big old tree. I have taken it outside and sit it on the ground and it jumps back on me before I can straighten up. See here I go again, I don't shut up that's why I don't post much. haha When I figure out how to post pics I will put one on here. It's a cutie.

Tammy