Texas Gardening: Brugs - do you grow them?, 1 by bettydee

bettydee wrote:
I have about 50 named Brugs, but most are young cuttings since I've had to start over. I had more, but lost most of them this past summer when I couldn't go out and water them. I also received some replacement cuttings from a fellow DGer. Mine are in pots with the roots allowed to grow into the ground outside. When I take them into the greenhouse, I have to prune those roots off. Keeping them in pots allows me to give more of them the afternoon shade they need in this hot Texas summer.

Fly_girl, I can empathize with you on losing expensive Brugs. I love my pink Brugs, both single and double, but I had a lemon yellow small flowering Brug that had the most fantastic fragrance. You could smell it from across the yard. It died in the greenhouse last winter when my DH lowered the thermostat to save propane.

One of my favorites is Creamsickle, a double light peach, which usually blooms a creamy white here. Given what she needs, she'll have wonderful flushes with a few blooms in between. The fragrance is like baby powder.