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First heavy flush! (pics)

18 years ago

With this heat, all of the extra watering and fertilizing has payed off. All of my brugs are exploding with buds. Here are a couple of pics:



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And here are a couple of other pics from around my place.

Asclepias curassavica


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stephanotis floribunda (Madagascar Jasmine)- This is probably the sweetest jasmine i've smelled.


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Mixed Cannas


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Salmon Cannas


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Unknown roses


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Impatiens Balsamina "tree". I wonder if these could be trained as a perennial bonsai? I'm tempted to try.


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Tibouchina Urvilleana (Princess Flower). These really dislike our heat, but with the smoke cover in the sky, the flowers are able to stay open for a couple of days each. The best flowering occurs in the fall when temperatures are cool.


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Erythrina Crista-galii flower buds. This is the first time it will bloom. I grew these from seed.


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Two more Agave Desmettiana Variegata that i found at the local dollar store.


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My two cockatiels are finally outside of their nesting box. They have a couple of eggs so they rarely come out.


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Mirabilis Jalapa broken colors


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And finally a couple of canna "wyoming" I like the bold, almost-black color of the leaves.


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On a side note: last Saturday there were lightning storms across central and northern Cal, and lightning alone started over 800 fires! some were small and quickly contained, but there are several large ones. Our air is full of smoke and the sky is a dull gray color. It's been opaque and smokey outside for the last three days, and if you step outside it smells like a campfire and the smell sticks to your clothes and your hair....it's bad. It makes wonderful sunsets though, with bright pinks, purples and oranges. Look at the background in some of the photos above. The last one of the canna "wyoming" and some of the pics of the brugs show the purple sky, well, all of that is smoke. It's a thick layer covering our whole valley.

Comments (12)

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I recognize those brugs from last year. They are beauties. What are the names of those fuzzy fellers ? Is that a NBJ under pic 3?

    Very nice keep the pictures coming. The four O clocks are one of my new favorites.

    Jim

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Yeah, i can't wait till their in full bloom. Jim, we havn't names the birds, but my little cousing calls one of them Chico. haha. maybe we'll keep that name for one and come up with another name for the other. What is NBJ? In the third picture, under the brug, is a dwarf valencia orange. This is the first year it has fruit (only one though) The following years should be more fruitful.

    I like the four o' clocks in broken colors better than the solid colors. Does anyone else have cool-colored four o'clocks?

    Here are two more pics i forgot to include:
    Here are two Brachychiton seedlings i am trying to bonsai. (lol a myself). I grew them from seeds that i collected from trees at the local IRS office (hey, they're good for something after all!) I have a large rock in the pot so that the roots can grow around it. In a couple of years i'll repot the brachychiton and expose the roots, which will hopefully be grown all around the rock. Any advice on bonsai'ing? i have no clue and to tell you the truth have never even read up on it.

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    And i spoiled myself with two Aloe Marlothii. Here's one of them. These are cheap at this size, but REALLY expensive when older. I got these for four dollars a piece.

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  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I truly enjoyed all your pictures, your flowers are gorgeous.

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I really love that photo with the Wyoming canna and the dramatic looking sky. The flowers even look ablaze!
    NBJ=night blooming jasmine (cestrum nocturnum). Those grew good for me in a desert climate, amazingly ~I always thought they needed humidity. They bloomed for me around Christmas there instead of during summer like they do in the south.

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Very pretty!! I love those salmon cannas! Everything is beautiful..as always!
    Man, I wish my dollar store carried plants! lol!

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Yes, plants can be found at the dollar store. They can be found for free when you make trades with people here on gardenweb but never follow through on your end. Especially when you do it lots of times to lots of people, before the word finally gets around. Just saying.

    Here is a link that might be useful: interesting ...

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    What happened to the pictures??? Says moved or deleted.

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    What happened to the pictures? All seem to be removed.

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    I wasn't able to see pics either. I thought it might have been a glitch with my computer, guess not.
    Karyn

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Possibly, they were deleted after romando's posting and link.

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    Boo Hoo no pictures I wanted to see!

  • 18 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    sorry guys and gals, i changed a setting in my photobucket account and all of the links were changed. Here's a link to my albums. feel free to browse through, the guest password is "brugmansia". The new photos are on pages 1 and 2. The rest are older pics.

    To explain a bit of the above: when i first joined GW, i was really into the seed trading forums. I traded a lot and for several reasons did not come through with several trades. I've appolagized and been away from the trading forums for a long time already, and really don't plan of being active there again. well, there's people who track my every move and sabotage every attempt to carry on an informative conversation. I've emailed romando with an appology so we'll see how it goes. I appolagize to you all for all of this.

    Here is a link that might be useful: June 2008 photos

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