Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Garden Tour...Plumies and things, 1 by Clare_CA

Clare_CA wrote:
Hi Michael!

That deformed one eventually bloomed normally. I don't know why it did that with the first few flowers. You are right that it has a Bali Whirl look to it and could very well be a seedling of BW.

I have CG in full sun here, and it does just fine with a lot of water, but it will grow and flower just as easily in part sun, filtered sun, or even full shade. It is one of the more reliable bloomers, given a ton of fertilizer, but it does tend to look ugly and get yellow leaves in the winter cold so mine are not looking very attractive right now. I had a huge one that got a bad case of Stangelbrand/Fusarium/Tomato Spotted Wilted Virus and had to be dug up and removed. Nearly all of my B. suaveolens and multihybrids have come down with this Fusarium, and I just tossed my B. suaveolens variegata the other day, which was showing the black circles around the nodes. B. suaveolens and multihybrids with B. suaveolens genes are very susceptible to this Fusarium/Blight/Stem Rot, and I have lost twelve brugs so far to it. I have only one CG left and only one B. suaveolens left (Isabella), and I'll be watching them both very carefully this summer. Happily, none of my B. veriscolors, aureas, or x candidas seem to be susceptible to it.

Here is what it used to look like before it became infected: