Again another Beautiful Angel!
Your brugs are so pretty!
Dorothy

He is a good looking brug...:) Whistle whistle

Brenda

He is a handsome fella! :) After seeing yours - I can't wait for mine to open! Great shots! Love the color!

Mike

this brugs is really nice, i like it. and the colour is great

Yup, Naughty Nick has come thru, and he was only naughty once!! ;-)
Thanks! Hope yours blooms soon, Mike! Wish I could send this to you Siam- I working on some seed crosses with NN, so maybe............!!!!

~Brenda

Brenda, Naughty Nick is gorgeous! Love the color and form!

Karen

Thanks, Karen!

My DIL Sandy wants one and the only way I'm gonna get her one is if I air-root it. My NN is a Standard and all the growth above the Y is green, green, green!!! Well, so far I suck at air-rooting, so I have done a little twist to see if NN will root halfway up the stem!
Yesterday, I took a pot, sliced it up the side, cut a stem-size-diameter hole in the bottom, slipped on the stem, AFTER I made several slices that I dusted with rooting hormone. Taped pot shut and it is nice & snug on the stem. Used some moistened orchid moss, to block the holes at bottom of pot, filled with loose dirt full of perlite, watered and now, ............ we wait!!
I'm still waiting to see how Mike's method works in some pots where I have multiple stems coming from the soil. I know this has worked with Maya, I just don't want to poke around too much yet in the other pots, altho it have been a month since I tried this.
~Brenda

Great looking blooms, Brenda. Is your really tall? Mine got really tall and yed last year but didn't have time to bud, and it is trying the same thing this year, but I don't even think it will get to y. I will give it one more year to quit being naughty, then I think I'm done. I want to see some of those blooms!

Gorgeous looking brug. Love the color.

Brenda, why do you have to air layer NN? Is it hard to root a cutting or you just what to do an experiment ?
Pat

Oh! Brenda that is a beauty, I've been trying
to get a cutting of it with no luck:( Maybe
I'll get one this fall I hope,but yours is so
pretty, just perfect :)
Susan

Shawn, thanks! So, he's been naughty for you; bad boy, you better get with Shawn's program or you'll get a Chocolate treatment!!! Mine is 6', or slightly less, tall. ( hope those threats work on NN for you, Shawn!)

Pat, no cuttings to be had off this brug. So, if I take off the top by rooting 1/2 way up the stem, which is around 6' tall, then I get a nice plant, with a Y, I might add, when it finally roots, and my DIL gets the bottom half of the plant left in the pot, which will grow into a tall plant next year and bloom for her!

ooo I like that naughty boy, hehehe.
Can't wait for mine to bloom, wont be till next year tho..if he makes it thru winter..crossing fingers!! Thanks for sharing the pix, love it!

Wow, Brenda! All your brug pictures are so impressive, especially this one. Just gorgeous!

Jennifer

Doesn't that almost look like a rose?
Why does he deserve the name "naughty?"
Some of the names are crazy, just like the names they give horses.
And do you know who gives plants their name? Someone who crossbred and created a new plant?

They do look perfect. Kind of reminds me of Peanut but peach instead of pink.

Ingrid if you follow naughty Nick's blooming history...you will find out that he is teasing a lot of folks by NOT blooming.

Brenda so tickled for you that he IS behaving like a gentleman lol

Of course I have no Idea why he REALLY got that name. The hybridizer is a naughty one and goes by the name of Nick? roflmao

Lucy

Thanks, Lucy. I always can rely on you.
Hugs, Ingrid

Mine is being Naughty again this year. Had a lot of blooms but they got blown off in the wind. Yours is lovely!

MY NN is 14 feet tall so i have no choice but to air layer the top off again this year. I have never had a bad bloom, it is one of my favorite brugs.

He was named after the hybridizers grandson whose name is Nick.

I knew a Nick once that was very naughty but thats the nyquil talking, lol. I need to send mine to a cooler place to live thats not so windy, lol.

I remember you had to do the same thing last year, Brenda. I feel fortunate that mine bloomed at less than 6' tall.
When I removed the anthers, I did not see much pollen on them,but I have seen crosses using NN. Is it small pollen, like the blossoms are small? Sorry, ........... just being silly!!!

Guessing grandson Nick had his moments with grandpa! ;-)

Brenda B