Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Some pictures you might enjoy, 1 by diamond123

diamond123 wrote:
Couldn't wait to get up today and check my messages, I love compliments! I take them well -blush blush ah shucks. Thank you every one!

Sarv48, hey you are on the right track, it takes two years to get standards, and they are real easy. First year grow your brugs as tall as you can, then in the fall, before the frost, pick the straightest tallest branches and cut them off as close to the pot as you can, then completely defoliate the branch, cut off any side shoots and put them in a bucket of water with a air stone hooked up to an aqairiium pump, the bubbles keep the water fresh. Then leave them until next spring. In the meantime they will grow roots out the bottom of the branch. I kept mine on the cooler side around 55 degrees. You may have to add some water every once in a while.
All my other brugs (the bush type) I cut off all the leaves, flowers, stop watering, and spray real good with 3 in 1 spray (insecticide) then bring them in, in thier own buckets, in around 55 degrees for the rest of the winter, I will periodically give them some water.

GardenGuyKin, thank you, last spring I put in a sprinkler system with 4 garden zones in the back yard. I figured that out the first year after watering all this everyday. It's great, I just have to water the containers and that takes around 20 minutes or so everyday, sooo... I have more time to enjoy, but I can't set still for five minutes anyway. Next year I think I might put in a chemical injector into the sprinkler system and make my life still easier, I'll be able to fertilize everything through the sprinkler.

AlohaHoya if I lived where you do I could enjoy this all year! you lucky duck! I have seen your pictures too, you live in paradise, thanks for the compliment!

Here's a picture of Adora she's two years old and over ten feet, picture was taken on a foggy day.