Tropicals & Tender Perennials: First summer with a blossoming brug, 1 by Joyous

Joyous wrote:
Hi I have been following this site drooling over all the beautiful brugs. Last summer '10 I purchased a variegated noid at a local nursery. It grew but didn't produce a 'y' till late Sept. I got 3 blossoms from it in early Oct. and felt so blessed to have it happen before frost. I dug it up and put it in an unheated bedroom upstairs for the winter. We are a 5b--6a zone here and last winter was cold! It lost all its leaves but survived.

I replanted it in the spring and it graced me with about 75 blossoms. I was crazy to think that I grew it. It then produced a side shoot that I didn't know what to do with so I left it.

Come late August it again produced about 150 blossoms!!!!!!!! Oh, my. Even the shoot had 'y'd' so it too blossomed.

Now mid October it is again ready to blossom. Not near as many buds as in August but still getting ready. I am babying it, covering it on cool nights and so hoping that I will get a third set of blossoms.

My question is . . . . . what do I do with it to keep it. Just dig it up and pot it up for the winter? Try to remove the side shoot that is almost as big as the main stem and then have two plants? Or do I cut, trim or ????

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Joy

This is the June blossoming. I picked up every spent blossom just to count how many.