Kristi

Wow is right! what a sight! Aren't they beautiful!
Bet you are soooooooooooo happy.
Nice to see a frog, my cats get all of ours.

The pollen is ripe before the blossom opens- I make a slit on the side of the blossom and using hemostats (I think that is the name), I clamp onto the the anthers and give a little twist to break them off, and pull them out and lay them on a paper plate to either use later or to dry and store in my fridge. Be sure to label and date right on the plate. You have to be careful not to get the female part of the blossom clamped in with the anthers, of which there are usually five. Takes a little finagling to get good at doing it.

Hey, do you have a list of your brugs???

Brenda

WOW is the right word. gorgeous! I LOVE the frogs. they are so cute. You are so lucky!
The shredded white looks like a pretty pettycoat .
Adora has a great dark color. SEE I told you you will get to see a lot of blossoms. You just had to wait for the cooler weather.
Is the last one a ginger blossom...this is a test for myself lol

Kristy GREAT pics...Wating is over for me lol

Good night

Lucy

I swear I am trying. I just keep getting sidetracked every time I go outside. I gave you the rambling walk through the garden in head list didn't I? Lol. I will get off my butt and do it in the morning instead of talking to Lucy and Kylie on the phone, lol. I haven't had any trouble getting the pollen from any of the others but I can't find it in this one, lol. Gonna have to bring one in and disect it. I used to have some hemostats somewhere. I'll look for them. The ones out back are easier but the ones in the front are hard to get to with so many other plants around I am starting to step on things. I know just about everything is pink or white, lol. I need some other colors to bloom. John is so in love with the Miz Scarlett. The high wind we had blew the buds off her and Naughty Nick. I was so upset! I know I have double peach but it hasn't bloomed and I thought I had a yellow noid but haven't seen it either. Grrr. Edna is sending me poop, roflamo, Inside joke. I will try and get my list done and send it to you. I need to post in on my haves anyway for the Christmas thing.

Nite Lucy. The last pic is ginger. Just put you a little pond in and you will have frogs too. I never saw any until I put the little lotus pond in. Everytime I look at those shredded white that song White Wedding runs through my mind. I am so proud of this one! It took the heat all summer and is blooming its big ole head off for me. I love it!

I love the white brug against the colors of the bricks of your house. Dont't repaint your house Kristy, it's such a pretty background pallet for your flowers. It's reminds me of some castle's wall.

Kristy,

WOWEE WOW WOW!!
What have you been feeding that Hawaiian Double? That is just crazy. You have to be excited about that one. It's amazing.

Looks like your Shredded White is really putting on a show. And the Adora is a very nice shade of pink.

Your new frog is a pretty one. Do you just find them and bring them home?

Congrats on all your brug blooms. All your hard work really paid off.

Deb

Look at you go!!! Just took the dang heat to pass to get those Bruggies blooming!! WOW!!!
Brenda if she calles I won't answer...LOL
Kylie

Everything looks great and I like the critters. Hawaiian Dbl White has a great huge bloom. I used it's pollen on a number of brugs in previous years and all the plants that I used it's pollen on have had big blooms. Save some pollen from it if you can. The Butterfly Ginger smells so nice. Good luck finding the anthers in your shredded bloom. I wouldn't even know where to start looking. lol I like collecting the anthers when the bloom has just opened fully. I sometimes have to allow it to mature for a day but it's nice and fluffy on most plants. I have had a few who barely seem to make any pollen.

Wow beautiful Kristy I love the shredded white,also love the ginger are they hard to grow I want some,but I don't want to kill it.
Bonnie

That is a huge bloom Kristy! Love your shredded white; looks exactly like mine except they called it Confetti. I think people just make up names. Yep, start building those frog houses.

Kristy, WOW on the shredded white. It is beautiful. All the others are as well, but it is sooooo pretty. Love the froggies !!

The froggies just started coming when I started putting in the ponds. The toads came first then the frogs. John was pouting for a while that we only had toads and he heard the first frogs call one night and we went out and hunted for him with the flashlight. Thus began the nightly frog hunt, lol. Bonnie the ginger is easy to grow. It didn't do as well this year as usual. The leaves got burned badly and this is the first nice flower stalk. Usually they do much better. Mine overwinter outside in a pot. I am sure for you they would overwinter in the ground. They are really easy. Remind me in the spring and I'll pull you out a piece. They don't go dormant until the dead of winter. I divided them last year and my sister took a bunch home with her. Hong its just the wood trim on the house I want to paint. I love the color of the brick. Just don't like the blue trim. I don't know what made the shredded white grow so huge. Its right behind the pond and the statue so I guess that shaded the roots and it liked it, lol. You should have seen it before I stripped a lot of the great huge leaves off. Then I realized they were shading the flowers and had to let a lot grow back. Going out to get my list done and Take the pollen from Hawaiian Double white and shredded white. Gonna cut off a flower and get it out. Thats the only way I think I will find it in that one. I want to pollinate Miz Scarlett with it.