I spoke with Brugie a bit ago and we both are wondering if anyone would be interested in posting a few their favorite pictures? We are both buried in the 'white stuff' up here in the frozen tundra and sure would Welcome a little "Eye Therapy". As a newbie here...I sure hope I'm not over-stepping any bounds with this type of request? This is the Brug that started it all.
Ruby, have you checked out the contest pictures? Click on 'extras' on the right side menu. Then you'll see the contest link. Some great pictures in there:)
I'd post one if I knew how to add it to this thread without starting another thread.
you do have to start another thread, but that' okay, we want to see it!!
Oh Yes Liz...go for it!!! Will be watching for it.
Ruby, that's a lovely plant!! I can't wait for spring!!
Jeanne, that is your problem. Renee had the same trouble. She has to shut it off when visiting Daves.
Puhleeezzzzzz post pictures of brugs. Winter just arrived here in Ontario, Canada 3 months late. All of the spring bulbs are through the ground and now buried beneath the snow. The flower buds on the forysthia and leaf buds on the lilac are now toast. The helleborus just started blooming.
I hate winter!! I hate winter!! I hate winter!!
Joydie
You go girl!!!!
Ruby,
What variety is the Yellow hybrid in your post?
Hi Eclipse...I received that Brug as a cutting from an individual in Kentucky. She had labeled it Chas. Grimaldi. From what little I know...it looks to be as she said. It is 3 years old now. I hard prune it just before I let it go dormant for the winter. It blooms as vigorously as you see it 3-4 times throughout our short summer months here in Wisconsin. I don't know that much about Brug characteristics to know if this plant would be a different variety. Do you think it is something other than CG?
Renee
I'm curious Ruby, when you say you prune it hard, do you cut it below the Y ?
I was wondering that too. Glad you asked TiG!!
tiG...I have been cutting the main "Y" back so that it is about 1/3 the length of the main stem. I then remove all the other branches. What I end up with is a tall bare stick with one bare "Y" for the winter months. It seems that this method works out well for me because I have such limited growing and storing areas. In summer, the end result turns out to be a bare main stem with a very full canopy. I wonder if this is why the plant gets so many blossoms? Less energy used for multiple branches and more used for flowering? Does that make sense?
I've got a couple I may try this with (as soon as those danged pods get ripe) I cut a couple of the CG's back to a "stick" to get all the cuttings I could, and will see how they do this summer. They are in one gallon pots, were at least 8 feet tall, and have such HUGE roots that have grown into the floor of the green house that I may never be able to move them. I tried digging them out with a shovel, but I think I will need a back hoe, lol.
Oh Oh. I think I made a mistake. I cut my two bigger ones right down before I brought them in for the winter.Will they flower this year again or should I have left the tall branch with the Y on it and just cut all the others down?????
Snow, they will flower again, it will just take a little longer. Even mine I leave in the ground bloom each year. They die back to the soil line, have to put out new growth, yet still have 20 or more blooms at a time, just later than the ones I bring in.
Snow...I agree with Cala. I've done it both ways. The CG I left tall and a peach versicolor I cut down to the soil. I bring mine in because it gets so very cold here but the result is exactly what Cala described. My reason for doing CG the way I did was to have a "standard" type of plant with a full canopy and narrow width because of space limitations. Renee
Whew! Thanks. I can go back to dreaming of Brugs full of blooms. LOL
I'm dreaming along with you, Snow. I can ALMOST smell them when I look at the pix from the lucky ones in the south.
DH and I are heading south next week. Maybe I'll be lucky enough to find a Brug I can sniff before heading home to get me through the rest of the winter. LOL
Dave....is it possible to make it so that everyone in the threads in brug forum can post pics without starting a new thread? or would that be too difficult to set up?
Owen
I'm no expert, but if you have a lot of pictures on one thread, Owen, it would take a long time for that thread to load. I don't know if I could wait on each thread to come up that way. Sometimes they are long in loading the way it is. Especially when there are a lot of posts on one.
Shirley, very good point. I never thought of that.....takes some of them too long to load the way it is:)
I guess maybe the best thing is either seperate threads with pics here or else go to the photos forum and post pics.
Am still waiting for the brug want/available thingie:)
Owen
