90s This Weekend!

Hope everyone is getting ready for the 

heat wave!!   Ya know it's nice having

the windows open until someone starts

up their smokey BBQ  

Cancer is close by!   Second hand smoke!!

If you are not watering your yard getting 

ready for this heat and think recent rains

will help.  Think again!!  

Sat. 93 degrees by 6:30 PM  high winds

and all the pine junk was blowing over

the yard.

Sunday

Hybridizing Datura X Brugmansia

 

I was asked to explain this cross.   This is our

third attempt to cross a Dature X Brugmansia and

we know crossing variegated can produce albino

seedlings.  I have only had one that was grown

and produced a flower with a seedpod.  Those seeds

did germinate but sad to say none of them survived

the transplant.

There are some that state that this can not be done.

Wrong,  I have the paper work that was shared with

me of the 1940 work by a University back east that

did cross a Brugmansia X Datura and a Datura X

Brugmansia.  After reading the two studies I decided

why not try tissue culture plants?    So I set out to do

the cross with D. Missouri Marble X B. Shorty's 

Variegated.   I had a lot of seeds from the 3 crosses

and share these seeds with folks cross the globe.  

We called then Datmansia.

Last year I as gifted another D. Missouri Marble that

I again crossed with B. Shorty's and the above it what

the seeds produced.  We will see how they grow, 

Calla Lily Time!

 

Rose Time!!

 

First Visitors Today

 While out cleaning the north rain

barrels today I had a couple of elderly

ladies stop and I invited them to walk

in the garden.   It was a nice break!

There is so much to see this year!

Still cleaning rainbarrels and getting 

the last of the plants out.  Now that

the finches have left the Brug House

I can get the eppies cleaned up and

hung.  

We currently have B. Shorty's

Variegated in bloom so they got

to see it.  The Brugs are slow

to leaf out due to the weather

temps going up and down.  

The spring Columbines have

been pretty much cut down as

I'm not saving seeds of most

of them.  Only the special ones

and the front bed where they are

located.

We are a working garden!!

Itoh Peony

 This is the first year this P. Canary Brilliant

has bloomed, enjoy!!

I thought it would be more of a peach

color.

Clematis photos

 https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/4913187183769930086/6698079659847506736

For those of you that came here 

to look at our Brugmansias, let

me save you some time and here

is the link to the newest Clematis.

I will post a new post on Clematis

2022 when time permits.