Barb I am happy you are still having a great time with little Bro. Even if you are slaving away for him lol. At least you captured your excitement on camera and can go back and be excited anytime you feel like it :-) It is beautiful! perfect shape and opening! I wonder if it still turns darker. I thought mine bloomed a darker last year???

Lucy

Barb your brug is pretty!
Thanks for shareing!
Susan

Very nice indeed! Congrats on your first double bloom!
Joyce

Goodmorning :)

Lucy I will check her today..Yesterday was her first day..I think she needs more time to open and color up...I hope...lol

Thanks Susan and Joyce! I am really excited to go and check her but it is still dark out and we just had a pack of coyotes howling in the yard..That is why I am awake... I need to look for kiki again...

I hope you all dont think I am bragging but here is some more of my brothers work he did..(I guess I am bragging because I am proud of him!) I cant draw nothing lol he is so talented...I will get a pic of the brug later when I get my courage up to go outside...hahhaha
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Very nice Barb. Keep us updated if it gets darker. I like the shape and the 'tame' tendrils. I have this one but it is just sitting there not growing.

Hi Shawn here is day two on it..It is getting more color and it's skirt dropped...I really like it alot and it has a nice soft smell to it not overpowering like some...

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I hope you all dont mind but I am posting her large I want you to see her...

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Wow I really like this one. It has the shape I really like for a double....A nice amount of separation and nice recurve, but not too much. I guess I'll start giving mine some extra TLC.

Thanks Shawn... I have a question...In the middle of the flower it looks like there is something inside it...Do you know what it is or called...Almost another skirt? Can you see what I am wonderfing about?

Barb that is awesome!!! I am really happy for you that the 1st bloom turned out to be perfect and such a beauty!

Lucy

Hey Barb,
That's Beautiful!!! I love the color!
Brag all you want to. I love the art work also!
Thanks for sharing,
hugs
Dorothy

Barb, I think they call those shredded skirts or partially formed skirts. I don't know if there is a real name for it. I think it is pretty common with the multiples. I had some of those on my NOL. I think sometimes Phanomenal can have triple blooms too, so keep an eye out for a full 3rd skirt on other blooms.

Thank you Shawn! I will keep a eye out..Something interesting too..Our temps dropped dramatically and it dropped a lot of buds... I was bummed lol Kinda neat to know about it...Thanks everybody for the nice comments..Al and Danny are cutting wood...I am downloading my music...lol Carpenters, bread, dirks bentley...hahahah

Wow, I got this plant this spring also and its first flush of buds are starting to swell. Hope mine turn out like yours are showing. Thanks for the preview.
Will

Barb,she is a beauty! Your brothers art is nice!
Dorothy does very nice art some times she share's
with me, ain't it great! lol
Susan

What a beautiful brug! The colors with the yellow in the center surrounded by such a soft pink are really attractive. Does it have a name?

Goodmorning

Will yes please post yours when it opens...They take forever to finally open...lol

Susan isnt it great having a artist in the family...Dorothy quit holding out on us and post some of your work...I love seeing art too..

Diana its name is phanomenal...Eddie of World Of Brugmansia I believe is selling it.... It might also be on ebay...But watch your sellers on Ebay there are some bad ones..Come back here and ask if they are good or not....I dont want you to get a bad seller...:)

OT LOL We went to a car show and a guy seen dannys work and took our number for a job for him...He is with me for another week..Cant turn down work in this economy..We are waiting to see if he calls him.... :)

Cool. I'm still waiting for my double peach to set buds. Only one of my brugs has bloomed this year so far. I'll be waiting for the brug show in the fall.

WOW that is very pretty. I do not have any doubles yet. LOL

Barb...that is so very pretty! Looks like ice cream LOL.
I'm trying to imagine a mature plant with all of those lovely dbl skirts.
Margaret

Thanks guys This is my first double...I really love her and she likes WI weather too...She did have ten buds on her and we got a cool snap and she dropped all but two... I cant wait for her to get bigger...Most of all I like her fragrance not overpwering at all...Oh and I didnt feed her either....Just miracle gro dirt and Wi well water lol..Have a great weekend everybody Barb