Brenda

She's more beautiful than last year! :)

Mike

Thanks, Mike! She is very pretty and is about to have a monster flush!
Guess this was not the venue to re-introduce BB to the forum , tho! LOL!

Brenda

Truly Beautiful Brenda!!!!Gotta love the color!!!Cool Birdhouse...

Kylie

Beautiful color Brenda!!

knotz

I love your whole garden. Paradise.

Lovely. Looks like it has freckles. Will it stay this way or will become a solid color? How does it smell?

Pat

Brenda it sure looks like a blossom that is strong enough to last for DAYS and days though!
Pat I was wondering about the freckles too.

Brenda can not wait to see the monster flush :-)

And CROSSING my fingers that it might still become stable

Lucy

Hey, Lucy, morning, glad you are able to join us from Florida!

This is a first day blossom- she is still coloring up. By the second day, the slugs had gotten to her more but what they left is solid peach. I have another to photograph this morning.

Kylie, my DIL Sandy is not only an incredible gardener, but she also carves wood and builds things. This birdhouse was a Mother's Day present 4 years ago, and was home to bluebirds- the metal on post was attempt to keep our cats away. The bluebirds finally left- their nerves were shot from constant bombardment from the felines.

Ingrid, thanks- it is wild out there now. My sunny driveway is lined with brugs and the garage area gardens are loaded, too. And one sunny pond area has the brugs circling the retaining wall. Not to mention seedlings (most not blooming yet) everywhere! Hard to all take in- that's why so many photos- will sustain me for the winter months!

Its beautiful Brenda. I love the birdhouse too. Can I adopt her, lol? My daydreams had one bloom and it was mottled like that and never changed. Weird looking.

Kristy, someone on DG brugmansia forum posted her photo of MEM, was all mottled and weird looking and someone asked her if there were tomatoes, or peppers or potatoes growing nearby the plant. Guess she was saying it was a virus! It is not SB, tho! And most brugs do have a virus, I can't remember which one, but most brugs outgrow it during the summer when they are growing so fast, then the signs of virus may show back up in the winter when growth is so slow. I have noticed that the doubles and the fuzzy leafed varieties show it more! Just my personal observation.
Oh, and smokers, stay away from your brugs when you are using tobacco products- Tobacco Rattle Virus is very contageous! Wash you hands before you touch your brugs. Don't smoke near them.

Oh, the virus is a potyvirus from South America.

Thank you Brenda!!! You dont know how much... I think this is my problem with a few.. I dont know but learning Hugs Barb