Joyce your tree is beautiful. That's the first brug flower I've seen whose color lightens as it ages. Did you prune it into that shape?
Karyn

Beautiful!

Joyce that is absolutly beautiful...Gigi is quite a cutie as well...Thanks for sharing the pic...
Blessings
Chena

Thanks Karyn, Ruth, and Chena!

Karyn, I really didn't prune it much, the original rooted cutting suddenly grew a side shoot which was more robust and faster growing. When it got about 4 feet tall, I started whacking the bottom leaves off it. This caused it to grow straight up even more. Then I snipped off the original cutting which wasn't doing much. Then I gave it some cheapo 10-10-10 pellets and some compost tea. Kept on snapping the bottom leaves off as it grew.
By the way, it's in a HUGE pot, about 30" wide and deep. Planted in Peters Professional Potting Soil mixed with my own compost in a 1:1 ratio. And some Veggie Osmocote mixed into all that. It gets full sun from early morning until about 2:30. Then shade. I water the heck out of it every day, always giving some compost tea.
Here are some pix of the first bloom this year.
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My 10 yo daughter...
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In mid August...
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That was nice. Love to see family in the pictures

Thanks

someone please tell me how I can add my brug pics... smurfboy77@aol.com