Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Someone made me very sad!, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
I want to thank you all. I was so shocked last night about it I couldn't even post it till this morning. You are all so nice.

And Delecie, you made me laugh with your song!! Too good!!!

And thanks Patricia and Margie for your offer of help. I will get it raked this weekend. And Margie, no way this was from a storm. The bad storm was the week before and I had some plants lean way over from the roots up from that, but no damage to stalks or even a leaf off. And all the damage is to the brugs in the center of my patch, right around the 2 most colorful brugs I have there.

I went back tonight after work, I left work early so it would be still light out. I picked up tons of tops and tried to figure out which brugs they were from. I have a pile of pieces to pot up.

HINT for newbies when you recover or receive in the mail a very wilted piece of brug: Cut off all the leaves except the very small ones on the growth tip. Cut a new end to it. Place in water. Wet the inside of a plastic bag, shake it out to make just damp not wet. Place glass of water and cutting in bag and seal it. The brug will rehydrate. You can leave for one or 2 days then remove and root it your favorite way!

Anyway, the center cut of the stalk, the easiest to root, are mostly missing. The ground is littered in the tender tops and also in single leaves which must have come off the missing stalks. I found nothing of my 2 brugs that had lots of flowers on them and were of good color. I only found the tops, no stalks at all!

Here is one of them. As you can see, it is tall (I mean WAS!), the tallest one I had at about 4 and half feet. It was very full with lots of trunks. None found!