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Thank you ladies you have solved a conundrum for me. A friend sent me this early last season and she didn't have the tag. It didn't bloom last year, but it did last night. I think maybe it is Maya!! Cool.

Juanita

Hi Bonnie, so nice to see you here again. Such beautiful blooms!. At least we know you are lurking around even though you don't post much.

Hello AuntB. We have all been wondering how your doing! Looks like you are pretty busy with all your beautiful blooms! Thanks for sharing. Take care, and post when you get the chance.
LK

Hello everyone!AuntB looks like you are in brug paradise : ) Joyce the Versi Peach you sent me has got some okra : ) Whooohooo!!!

Oh, Kim it won't be long now........

Hey Kim, how you doing? Figures all our plants are doing good, now that the cold weather is setting in!

I have been waiting for cooler weather, but alas our temps have been the hottest all summer - 100. Can't get out in the yard in this heat so hoping all my pretties are doing OK. At least our evenings cool down, this morning it was foggy and you could hear the water dripping off the eaves of the house. We have some very odd weather, and fires are running rampet again. So looking forward to rainy weather.

We never even hit a 100 not sure we ever hit 98, probably more like 95 but only just a few times and really wet. Now that fall is here the rain has stopped.....very strange.

Pegi, hope you are far away from the fires!

I hope it doesn't get into the 40's until after the middle of Oct, I have way too much to put up. I think I have a cold or the flu, but I still managed to put up a few plants tonight and drag some others down by the garden room. Would be nice to live somewhere where I wouldn't have to pu stuff up every fall.

I second that wish, Joyce.. gosh I hope u get to feeling better..
monster white is in a flush for me and you can see the back up buds behind her nice opened ones..
weird that little stick made three stems.. oh well, more to share with!

Looks like someone was late, or up really early?
Thanks for the pretties Debra.
Joyce, hope your feeling better soon.

Wheres the coffee? yup, I was up late hit the bed at one tho, work today, sittig here looking out my window and watching the daylight come over my gardens..

I nearly jumped out of my chair when I saw your posts Bonnie! Good to finally see you here... and your brugs!!!! WOW!!!! Mine just have not grown this year hardly at all. I have done well to keep some alive. WE have had luck with 3 in the ground a moms house though.. they grew to about 4 ft tall and have buds all over them right now. All of mine now have buds but have also dropped a lot of buds.. bugs! I have picked a thousand worms off the plants too.

Yes, I can take the Maya and get her growing before the cold sets in... fall has arrived early but it is warming up again and we should have at least another month of warm weather for good growing before I have to start thinking of moving things inside. I don't have a clue what I am going to do about the 3 in the ground at moms.. still trying to decide.. cutting back and major wrapping will be happening!

Look at all those beautiful brugs! And here I was so thrilled when I got a couple on mine. Oh well, maybe my turn will come soon. Worms were after mine too and left a lot of holy leaves, I sprayed them with malithion and I think that is working. I noticed a couple tiny buds this morning. How can anything grow and prosper in this darn heat.

I have pods on 2 of mine now. And it's getting close to time to bring them inside! What are some of you using to spray them with before bringing them indoors for the winter?

Hello everyone...and a special hello to our dear MIA friend Bonnie. So glad to see you here. Do you have any idea how much you are missed? You know we need you. Just look at your beautiful Brugs, mine are pretty, but not like yours. We need your advise, and besides, we just need you. Love and miss you!
Faye

Cat, I hear ya.. can feel the freeze coming .. we should have another month of non freeze, tho u and I.. 30 days seems like a minute when it comes to brugs..

Good Morning!!

Cool and rainy here, but it doesn't seem to be affecting these beauties.

Juanita

Another...

Weatherman is saying next Mon night is going to get in the middle 40's!!!!!

thats okay for the brugs.. at least here it is..

Hi Yall, just skimming through and wanted to say Hi. The pictures of brugs are lovely but gotta have some of that ginger. Have a good day and keep the cheer.

Such beautiful pics everyone!
30 days will fly by and if it is 40's for you all it will be colder up here where I am........darn. I did get alot of plants staged outside the garden room, course I still have 31 bags of mulch in front of the door........logic still escapes me.

I still have tons to plant and don't know where I am going to put them so I am just sticking them here and there......oh well need in the ground so they can get ready. Should of had them in Sept, but you know.....I am digging a trench and trenching alot of them in their pots (daylilies) so I can dig early, bring in the garden room and get ready for our plant sale the first Saturday in May.

Had worms on my trees but not so much on the brugs thank goodness.

Cat as far as getting ready for winter I have done 2 things. Sprayed with the receipe, neem oil and all that stuff and used bayer all in one diluted. So hopefully I am ready. The brugs and hibscus loved the bayer all in one, I no it is not organic but going in for the winter I need strength, then when inside I will use soapy water and the like.

I think I will get some of the Bayer too. I want all bugs DEAD before bringing therm inside! :-)

I can tell you the brugs, ee's, hibiscus, bird of paradise have all loved the Bayer stuff, just hope the bugs don't like it....LOL

I have found with the Bayer that one has to be a little careful. I almost killed everything I had a few years ago because I used too much. So folks just go easy on it. :))

Juanita

How much do you dilute it Joyce?

Cat, I will have to look at home, I wrote it on the bottle, I think Bonnie told me. I will look maybe I can find where she told me.

Ok thanks. I'm going to go by Walmarts this evening and get some

Good to see everyone! Thank you so much for such a warm welcome back to the thread. I only show you the pretty ones... I have many that aren't so big or mature (age only makes them more beautiful - kinda like us ;) Some grow slow, some grow small, some grow by leaps and bounds, some put out new starts and some are greedy.. what enjoyment and beauty they provide. Faye, you lil sweetie, thank you.. I will not stay away so long again.
40 at night is ideal for brugs... but I don't like it... means BELOW 40 isn't far away.. and I'm not ready. lol getting there, but a long way from loading them up.

Cat, I take a lot of the leaves off and spray the whole plant and top of soil with insecticidle(sp) soap.. making sure to coat under the leaves and the stems and into the growth tips. I've used Neem before, I don't like the oily residue it leaves behind but it does work...I also treat my brugs and tropical hibiscus with a Bayer product -12 month Tree & Shrub insect control - (used it in July 08 and then again, just last week) mix with water and drench the pots.. works great - Kim told me about it. I also will treat them with a systemic for roses. Then keep a watchful all winter for mites and aphids.. all that spraying and drenching and there's still no guarantee you won't find some kind of critter... but I'll take the chance..

I picked a bouquet last night. I took it to our local restaurant for the young lady who made us a pizza (she was having a bad day)... it smelled up the car and the restaurant.. (and brought a smile to her face-mission accomplished). This big pink one is Cupids Blush- I couldn't believe how BIG it was......bigger than my face, I HAD to show you! Sure didn't seem that big till I picked it..... Guess I've never really made them into bouquets (!!!, really??)... I don't think they last very long once picked, but I say pick a precious bloom and experience it---so rugged, yet so fragile... the texture, the color, the inside parts and of course that hipnotic smell -it's in your face... so interesting. I love brugs. (print out pic- works for scaring away mice -not mites-sorry:)
Have fun today.

Wow, Bonnie that bloom is huge! A big flush of those would send you into a trance.
Good to see you back.
Have a great day all.

That is one BIG bloom!!! Gorgeous! May need to put that one on my list next spring.

Thanks Bonnie for the pic. of the TWO beauties. I cannot imagine a bloom on anything that big or pretty.

((Faye)) I'm so tickled... it bloomed last year at the end of the season, but not SO big... I really didn't realize they were so wide! The only reason I noticed it was cause I picked it for the bouquet and held it upside down (wish you could have seen my face, LOL). I encourage everyone to pick and inspect.... such a wonderful surprise. I still giggling over it :) It is raining... no more playing in the dirt for me.. I wanted to post a pic for Deb.. she brought me this wonderful mixture basket... marigolds, lantana, violets and a tomato plant w/lil green maters, I prolly missed something she has in there... it is so cute.. there were MG seed heads in there, too! Deb, notice the pink clover??? Teehee, she brought me pink blooming oxalis, last Spring, and we couldn't find it when she visited last week...it was still waiting on me to find it's home.. :) I will take out some of the red blooming and add it to my big tub of oxalis.. ((Deb))

AuntB, those rain clouds are moving slowly. I can see the flashes to west but no rain yet at 11:18PM. It needs to get done before I get out tomorrow morning, I don't have time to wait for the rain to stop....LOL

Hi all, well I been sweeping scrubbing and arranging the basement and feel like I have a long ways to go, i had to stop when I broke the second bulb, and dropped the hammer on my foot.. bonnie I will send those pics in a .zip folder to you from my lap top tommorrow from work.. if it is ok I would post a picture of us, but need you ok first.. My brug blooms have been monster blooms as well and I just love it! went out in the rain and dark to untangle a corymbosa nervosa vine I started from seed in the little pouch planter on the south fence, it had grown clear up the mulberry tree, so hope it is okay now in the south window on the make shift shelf in its new pot, and the broken piece is in a start vase.. *sigh*

Funny you should mention the pink blooming oxalis because I was looking for some for over 2 years.. could find everything else but that one until just a week ago when I found someone with a yard full.. he dug up two huge clumps for my mother and me and we have now separated them and planted all over out beds so hopefully some will survive and multiply. Mom had some growing which she loved but I unfortunately managed to kill it with weed killer by mistake when getting rid of trumpet vine a couple years ago. She has been so unhappy without her pinks since.

is it winter hardy? I have some left, was going to take it to RU if it isn't..

It survives our mild winters here in Odessa, TX some snow and freezes into the mid teens.

Hello everyone!

Just wanted to share my brugs! They are so pretty now that the weather has cooled off!
First is this huge white one! It starts out yellow, but opens up white! And she smells so sweet. They all do!

And next is this pretty yellow one! Not quite as big, but a pretty one!