Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Root Pruning, 1 by Kell

Kell wrote:
Poppysue, it gets in the 40s here also now. Days have been in the 50s with some low 70s. But you can feel spring in the air, it is palpable. I think the plants really respond to that.

Kristi, brugs will grow much better in the ground here. But that is the trouble. I have a small yard and cannot have huge bushes all over. However, if you have a large enough pot and fertilize well, they grow great in pots also, just not so huge. My aim is not to grow a huge brug in a pot which is why I root prune and canopy prune to control them. I do not have room for huge ones. I just want pretty ones.

Here is brug that I bought as a 5 gallon pot that was less then 3 feet tall last year, about 3 stalks. Less than one year later it is huge. I have this planted in a friend's yard. Most of the ones that were in my yard this big, I had to take out this last month. And they sucker like crazy!