Varigated brugs?

Just wondering if these are more delicate than the others? What is a good variety that is a heavy bloomer? I love the leaves! If anyone has a couple to trade please LMK If you have pics of your at home could you please post them?
Thanks,
Teresa in KY

Teresa, Some of the variegated Brugs are more prone to sun scorch than others. It depends on how much of the leaf is variegated. If the leaf is heavily variegated, growth is slower. It doesn't utilize water as quickly so root rot could be a problem if you treat it like other Brugs. You may have to move the plant around to get maximum growth while avoiding sun scorch on highly variegated ones like Snowbank and Miner's Claim. If only a slim portion of the leaf edge is white, you probably won't notice much difference between a variegated Brug and a non'variegated one.

Snowbank and Miner's Claim have to be in bright light, but no direct sunlight at all here in central Texas. None at all! Snowbank has never bloomed for me, but that's OK. I love its big variegated leaves. The variegation is stark white with no yellow. Gorgeous! It is a very slow grower and you have to be careful not to overwater.it. Miner's Claim bloomed once for me producing light apricot pink blooms. Fragrance was not very strong. Because I live way out in the middle of nowhere, I don't usually have spidermite problems, but Miner's Claim was a spidemite magnet. I wasn't using any systemics at the time. So, she went downhill and finally died. Snowbank was a grasshopper victim last summer. I just bought replacements from Plants Delight. They were healthy looking and definitely what they supposed to be. They are getting a systemic as soon as they get established.

Sunset and Maya have similar looking leaves. Maya is a faster grower and better bloomer than Sunset. If I could only have one variegated Brug, it might be Maya. Here, it needs protection from the hot afternoon sun and suffers in low humidity. It's relatively free of pests. Sets pods like crazy, but, alas, all its seedlings are albinos.

I can't tell you much about Peaches and Cream as I've had it for less than a year and it didn't get a fair trial. The grasshopper loved her almost to death last year. This year, I'm starting the systemic as soon as I take my Brugs out of the greenhouse.

Late summerl of 2008, I started with 3 rooted cuttings of Jamie, a sport of Charles Grimaldi. The variegation along the edge of the leaves is wider in Jamie. When you add the yellow/yellow-gold flower color, this Brug has a big "Wow!" factor. I planted 2 in the ground and kept one as back-up until the spring. The lowest temperature that winter was 26ºF. I covered the plants with bubble wrap and a fiberglass pot as extra protection. Both died down to the ground and didn't return in the spring. The 3rd Jamie finally "Y"ed (I started with vegetative growth cuttings.) and bloomed in the greenhouse this winter. I'm hooked on this one!

Betty, thanks for all that info! I saw one at the U of KY arboretum. It was in full sun, just beautiful! No blooms but still lovely.

I vote for Maya!
VERY good grower and last year (2009) it outdid itself. NEVER ever did i see this many blooms on it!

Unfortunately--because of the size of it--I could not even imagine taking it to my basement for the Winter--so I donated the whole plant away to our local Arboretum, along with another one (Rose Souvelons) that had outgrown my care.....

Here she is awaiting pick up by the Arboretum's truck.

Gita

Here's her "baby" following Mama's example--to carry on.

Still sitting in my dark, cool basement as i write this. In a couple of weeks--I will be bringing all 3 of my dormant Brugs outside, giving them a trimming back and pot them up in their pots for the season.

Gita

Gita if I knew you had that I would have hit you up for a trade to try a peice I tried rooting one this winter and lost the battle. That was super you really did a nice job on that!

If anyone has a Maya for sale please Dmail.
Thanks everyone for posting, Gitagal, I bet that was hard to give that beautiful plant up. I have given plants to our Western KY Botanical Garden for others to enjoy.

Teresa

Blue--It took me weeks of begging for them to take it.
I sent all these awesome photos and such.....I don't know what their problem was! They have Greenhouses to keep it in....I also think they may have been afraid that my plants would be diseased and all that--full of bugs....NEVER!
It was "hard"--but not really. I do not get overly attached to any plants....They are just plants.....

I bet by now they have taken a zillion cuttings and are planning to sell them for good $$$ at their Spring plant sale....
I would like to go just to see......or--I would just like to go. It is a very nice place and they do a wonderful job....

I do not have a cutting this year. maybe next?

The "Maya" is very similar to "Peaches and Cream". From what I know--the only difference is in the length and shape of the calyx. Anyone can correct me--I am NOT a Brug expert.....

Gita

Maya is listed as a B. candida, an aurea & versicolor hybrid. Peaches and Cream is a B. versicolor. The calx is slit only once in both. In Maya, however, the calx lobe covers the corolla neck on one side while the neck is very visible on all sides on the Peaches and Cream. Maya's flowers are slightly nodding while the flowers on Peaches and Cream hang straight down. The leaves are very similar being tricolor with a smooth slightly wavy edge. Mine have never bloomed at the same time, but at least for me, Maya blooms more often.

Gita your yard looks soo nice after seeing all the snow you had this winter. You really do a nice job there everything looks perfect! Nice job!

Thanks, Bettydee,

I will c/p that bit of information out and save it.
I remember a couple of years ago asking for clarification between these two--and all I remember is that it had to do with the length of the calyx...or something.....

Gita

Gita,
It's just beautiful!!
What did you feed it?

X-Cactus---

I am very negligent about feeding my plants......and it is so contrary to all my gardening knowledge to let it all slide.....
After all the Spring "euphoria"--life just seems to become so much Ho-Hum....

I am very aware that Brugs are "pigs"----anything you throw at them--they gobble up....I really don't do much regular feeding.....Now and then--I would mix something im my watering can and go pour it on the Brugs.....I don't really pay attention to any "rules"....

I had had this "Maya" for about 4 years,,,,The year before last (2008)--I root-pruned it, re-potted it, and mixed some "Dynamite" slow-release plant food granules (feeds for 9 months) in the potting soil I used to pot it in.

WELL! I have NEVER seen bigger leaves on a Brug--AND--less flowers than that year!!!! Too much "Dynamite" I imagine--and hardly any flowers! REALLY! Almost none to speak of!
THEN--It made up for it the following year--(2009)....

Here is a picture of how HUGE all the leaves grew in 2008. Unbelievable--I tell you!
I am sure it was due to the granules I mixed into the soil . Maybe too much "N"....It looked "insane"!!!!

SOOOO--
The amount of bloom it came up with last year might have been a carry-over from all that fertilizing....

It had FOUR huge flushes--starting in June. Each one bigger as the plant grew--but the amount of blooms for each flush was jus as amazing as the final one that I posted above....just proportionately bigger as the plant grew bigger as well.

What I think is most amazing about the "Maya" blooms is the 3 distinct phases of color the blooms go through.
They open yellow---proceed to a creamy white as the bloom opens---and then, slowly turn peach as it matures and fades....This may take 4-5 days total.

This hows pretty well all the 3 color stages of the "Maya" bloom.

edited to say that his sequence really represents the "peaches and cream" coloration.....

I also wanted to ad that all this phenomenal bloom in 2009 might have been, also, as a result of how root-bound this plant was. As you can see in the picture where it is dug up and awaiting p/u--the pot is dwarfed by the whole plant....Like--the "Swan Song".....

This message was edited Apr 11, 2010 8:09 PM

Gita,
Whatever it was, the dynamite or root pruning or maybe the combination of both; it's absolutely beautiful.
Thanks for the info.