Tropicals & Tender Perennials: brugs not doing well this year, 1 by woodspirit1

woodspirit1 wrote:
I don't know if it was because we had drought or because I had white fly infestation, but my brugs didn't grow very tall. We watered them when we could but we are on a well, so we had to be careful that we didn't run it dry.
The brugs are beginning to bloom. Solid Gold has done the best for me as it has in past years but I keep hoping for more variety.
I got a cutting of Mountain Magic and it is indeed a nice deep pink, but the blooms only seem to last one day. Does anyone know if this is typical of Mountain Magic?
I sprayed for the white flies today. There were a lot of them under the leaves.
All the brugs have buds or blooms but are quite short, some of the blooms just barely above the ground. I was a little lax on fertilizer early in the year because I was unwell, but have been very disciplined about caring for them since early July.
The picture is last year's solid gold.