Tropicals & Tender Perennials: She's About To #25, 1 by AmandaTaylor7

AmandaTaylor7 wrote:
Hi ladies! Ok, just to repost my #23 posting here:

I'm doing fine! My brugs made it through the hurricane just fine. They lost all of their leaves in the 80+ mph winds, but they began putting out tons of buds the next week! I took 4 large cuttings of my possible CG brugs and stuck them in a pot of water with root tone and fertilizer (testing it out) and they are blooming like crazy in my garage with no roots yet!

I was very blessed to get a Dola this year on eBay so I planted her AFTER the hurricane (she's just a baby) and I can't wait for her to really grow! I also was able to purchase a cross from Liz (The Chief x Jacayna - not sure if that's the right order or not) and that baby made it through the hurricane just fine and now seems to have sprouted wings! She was about 8 inches tall above the soil line (grown from seed) about 2 months ago, and now she's about 3 1/2 feet tall! No Y yet, but that's not bothering me!! I hope she gets to be about 5 or 6 feet tall before the Y because of where I've planted her. I cannot wait to see how she performs! I also have a resiliant NOID Double White that is about 2 feet tall now. This guy has been battling mealybugs since the hurricane, but I'm out there daily attacking those guys with my sheers (yep, I'm snipping them in half!).

I thought after the hurricane that I'd lost most of my plants (some of which I did lose, including some palm trees), but not one of my Brugs was affected, thank God!

It's been hard to get on here very much since the storm because we have had SOOOOOOOOOOO much work to do around the house. We'd evacuated for 2 weeks, had some roof damage, electrical damage, very minimal vehicular damage, and lost some plants. The worse thing though was being without power after the storm, which is why we left. The clean-up has been crazy for us, and I'm having to baby pretty much all of my plants in hopes of getting the ones remaining back to full health before the winter hits us in January-February. So most of my time while at home has been spent on that. I'm going to try to log in once a day from work though until I can get on while at home again. Glad to see everyone is doing so well!!


Now in addition, here's a video that I put on YouTube of the Ike aftermath in my hometown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaRgvVGK93k

Our house is on the end there (our silver Camry and brother-in-law's gray Dodge truck) of the first strip of homes in the film. The scene where water is coming up over the road is on Hwy 35 in front of the western wear store there. The power lines in front of that place were all shredded and hanging open in the water. The one with the tan strip center actually has a billboard laying in it's parking lot that fell and blew from nearby. Shortly after that there is a shot of the railroad bridge in front of Wal-Mart on Hwy 35. The road actually dips down far there, but was impassible due to the standing water. We were blessed and faired pretty well. It turns out - the Cosmic Dancer hibiscus I thought I'd lost is putting on new leaves!! Yay!

The photo attached here is of an antiques store that was basically gutted by Ike. It's right by my house.