Thanks Veronica, I just saw that one last week and was going to do a search to get its name.
The one I saw of it because it dies back every year, was a messy looking bush. The branches were all over and hanging on the ground. But the flowers were pretty!
Well I am off for another garden adventure. See you all later.
Kell, You're right, in areas where it freezes down to the ground, it does come back as a bush. I need to cut into mine and see if I can find a straight limb to protect this winter and maybe I can coax it into looking more like a tree. In warmer zones it does take on more of a tree shape.
bettydee, you say the cattle get into your garden, are these shrubs poisoness? I have an oleander and I have to be very careful to not get any into my pastures because it is poisoness (?) spelling? , and I sure don't want my longears to get sick or die from it. I cut it back this spring and it hasn't bloomed. Oop! It is o.k. I don't care if it blooms or not. But it is a pretty red one.
The seeds of Erythrina crista-galli are poisonous. Erythrina x bidwillii doesn't produce seeds. Although cattle are grazers, they do browse from a few trees. I've discovered they like persimmon leaves and if the fruit is ripe, those disappear, too. If we leave the gate open, the cattle will rush in to graze on the grass, but will nibble of a few other things. However, they have never eaten any of my Brugs. Donkeys and mules are browsers as well as grazers.
Yes, they are. Charley was just grazing on my crape myrtle. they think they are hungry when they are not.
Believe I'll leave that plant alone. I worry enough about Blk. Walnuts, Cherry trees-all considered poisonous.
Thanks
I take back what I said about the Erythrina x bidwillii. My impression of it just 3 weeks ago was that it was a messy looking bushy thing with long branches arching up and over.
I saw it again today and it was much more attractive. It is large and sprawling but not so messy looking. It also was flowering much more and that might have made me think it looked better or maybe it just rounded out more in 3 weeks as it was putting out its buds.
The blooms are bright, bright red!
Kell, I think I know where you took the first picture of the Erythrina! Was it in Balboa Park here in San diego? I recognize that corner! If I'm right....I also got seeds from that SAME TREE, HHAHA!
I so wish, Roberta. I LOVE San Diego! I haven't been there in a very long time.
That tree was in San Mateo on the Peninsula just South of San Francisco.
Here is a bigger pic of the Erythrina x bidwillii.
Kell, almost everything in my back yard is poisionous, I have no young ones and my dog is not a plant eater,, he is old and spoiled..
there are alot of cool trees around here in Buffalo, got some seed pods and found a beauty berry bush and got cuttings and seeds.. the virginia creeper here has berrys is that normal? I guess mine is always cut back so it can't bloom.. lots of blooming shrubs here in Buffalo as well..
Wanted to show a friend, a Brug, so reupped, what a thread to come into thanks Kell!!
Root
Yes, I do believe they do get berries. You should find a variegated one. A very cool leaf!
Sounds like Buffalo is great. What kind of blooming shrubs. What one is Buffalo?
I have more seeds for you if you want them. An Acacia farnesiana. Gets covered in yellow in spring. Then some blooms here and there for months. Lots of cool seedpods decorate the tree.
WOW Root, I haven't seen you in ages. I was just thinking of you last week for I was tallking to Anna. Do you still keep in touch with her? How is your garden? You have moved again!
I am rarely here in the Brug Forum anymore. Amazing how intense we all were here over brugs and now seem to have all graduated. LOL
LOL! I could swear it was balboa park!
Hi Rob! I wanted to tell you thanks for the great Lobata seeds... my plants were eating my north fence when I left home.. I love them!
That's awesome Debra! Show us a picture!!! Mine didn't get as much sun as last year and it didn't grow quite as much!
How gorgeous! The single blooms on a Brug that size is sure special. If only I could get mine to grow that size.
I eventually will... that is my goal to have some large brugs like that by overwintering them.
Thanks for sharing the pictures!
Rob, they were all budded out when I left home Last Saturday, so they should be in full blast when I return home tommorrow.. will take pictures sunday and Post them.. the seeds I planted out fromt have already bloomed.. but NOTHING plant wise like the ones on the back north fence!
I love Ipomoea lobata too!
Great Pic Kell.... yep, that is my fence eater LOL between that one and the Messina Creeper, I bet the neighbors are ready to turn me in to the invasive plant police.. *shrug* oh well..
here is a picture from the Botanical Gardens In Buffalo, NY I thought was nice..
It was not tagged.. Sheesh!
Beautiful begonias! And I love that Aristolochia elegans. I have one of those and it is quite easy.
Really>? Hmmm, I will look it up.. here is another picture of a nice vine out there
Kell, I love Spanish Flag vine. I grew them last year and they covered my mailbox! My poor mailman was afraid he would get attack by the vines!
Debra, what is that pretty yellow vine?
Oh my goodness all those vines are beautiful and I'm always looking for some new ones to grow. I had a Aristolochia elegans last year and it grow so beautiful. Unfortunately it didn't come back this year. I guess I should have cut it back and took it into the greenhouse.
If any of you ever have any seeds or small starts of your vines to share I'd certainly be interested in getting some different things to grow here in the country/boonies where I live. LOL
my plant from last year.
I forgot to say to look at my trade list and see if you see anything you might want to trade for.
Here's a morning glory that's bloomed it's head off all summer. It came up on it's own so I have no ideal what the name is and I can't find any seed on it either. Any idea what it might be and when the blooms go to seed?
Happy Gardening, Marian
One more vine. LOL I have all these little trails and paths on my farm and I try to tuck something in that will surprise people when they walk around the next little bend in the trail. I use cattle panels cut into 3 pieces that are 20ft long for my little arbors or trellis for the vines to grow up. That way we can drive the lawn mower or tractor under them when we need to.
Happy Gardening, Marian
Cardinal vine, just getting started. Man it was completely covered before the end of summer.
Hi Marion.
Beware of that vine! It is seductively gorgeous but so invasive it will cover a house in no time. It roots where it hits the ground and puts outs runners that travel hundreds of feet. And does it fast.
My advice is if it in the ground, dig it up ASAP unless you have freezes there that will kill it off in winter.
Ipomoea indica. It does not set seed, just roots if it touches the ground.
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/showimage/251705/
Just a white Noid Brug hanging from the clouds. I really enjoyed these photos taken looking up at the clouds.
I had not ideal that they would look this pretty!
Marian
Oh Kell, I'm so glad you told me that. I didn't plant it and it has the biggest most beautiful blooms I've ever seen on a morning glory. I have noticed the runners all over the ground and since I didn't know anything about it I've been training them to go up another trellis arbor/ cow panel or whatever you want to call it. Now I know I need to start pulling it up when it's running everywhere.
I will keep a close eye on them and pull everything that touches the ground up. I would like to keep a couple of them growing as the bees, and everything else just loves them. No wonder that sucker got so big so fast. I can't thank you enough for telling me about how invasive it actually is. I would have had the entire backyard covered in that stuff and been pulling it up for years. At least this way I know it's got a take over the world attitude.
Thanks again for the heads up.
Marian
Is it the blue vine or the cardinal vine that is invasive?
cardinal vine is invasive. Just plant them in a container and you will be fine. Don't forget to collect their seeds too. Great for trading. I love their leaves. I have lots of hummingbird seeds too. The flowers on hummingbird vine is smaller but they look exactly like the cardinal vines and the leaves on hummingbird fine is soft fern like. Very cool.
The pictures I posted up there are in the botanical Gardens.. I love invasive vines.
I love blooms
I love flowers
I love leaves
Life is awsome isn't it?
I am home.. see you in the am... Debra
Peony they are both invasive but breath taking. It is my understanding that you just have to keep both of them in check or they will get out of hand pretty quickly.
The blue morning glory came up on it's own. I didn't plant it. I let it grow and cover the arbor and the next thing I know I have runners all over the ground. Not knowing it had a take over the world attitude I started it up some of the other things in the yard. I'm going to be pulling it up except for EXACTLY where I want it growing.
I love all kinds of vines and if any of you have any that you would care to share, I'd be more than a little interested.
Thanks again and happy Gardening, Marian
How lovely, everyone! Debra, your spanish flags are definitely doing better than mine! But at least I got seeds again, so next season, will do it in a sunnier position!
The Aristolochia is gorgeous...I tried it from seed this year and the only one that came up died on me! : (
Rob, I have four vines in four different locations, and the one on the north fence is just going crazy, so if you want some seeds back just let me know, plant them with the ones you already have to get some cross pollinating maybe?
my coral vine is blooming too..
Question.. I have about 11 brugs in small pots, they are blooming.. should I move them to larger pots before I move inside to the winter nursery in the basement , or let them go dormant in a dark room down there , or or just save cuttings ( which is what these are all from )
I would die for a flush like those. The brugs must really like California! They hate Texas, lol. Too hot and dry I think but I try anyway. Joeswife do you know the name of the next to last flower pic you posted? I have a huge bush of it and can't find out what it is. I took a cutting from someplace and planted it in a bad spot thinking it was going to be a small bush and need to move it, lol. Here is mine. The flowers look just like those in your pic.
Nite blooming Cestrum ( pink) very nice bush!
Thanks, I hope it survives the move. As to your question if you are letting them go dormant leave them in the same pot. Repotting will encourage new growth. You can take cuttings if you want to ensure they survive.
okay.. so.. potted ones let them go dormant after cutting.. got it..
