Of note for today...several Brugs already put in the ground. 4 more cubic yards of compost to be added to soil...Candida species x Ecuador pink pods have taken. Still haven't checked to see how the Candida species x candida pink seedpods are doing, but sources say everything is good. Two unknown Brug assailants came by during a routine hoeing of the back nine and tried to get two Brugmansia out of me. Need less to say,I sent them away with seedlings as its too early in the year to be giving cuttings away. I plant to plan to have all Brugmansia in the ground within the following week, but then we all know how my plans go. Just hoping to have enough seeds this year for everyone that was wanting some last year. Of course, I am hoping to have enough for me to plant as well. I know those further south have already planted theirs in the ground, but for those further North we have to plant when it gets a bit warmer. Anyone else started planting and or hybridizing yet? I know someone has to have started some to die for seedpods already this spring. I know, I am easily excited. I can just see my plants leaping into the air and its only been a few hours for many of them in the soil and out of the pots. In the center I have placed a Daylilly bed of course and of course tomatoes, strawberries, watermellons, cantelopes, etc...Yes, I know I have no sense of what to plant where, but surrounded in a much larger square of Brugmansia...in the very center will be the family bench...won't have to leave this year to go outside of my Brugmansia fortress. A solid square enclosure of Brugmansia...as our food garden will be in the center. No need to go anywhere else...just living off of the melons and tomatoes and of course inhaling the wonderfully sweet fragrances from the Brugmanisia and of course the Rose bushes off to one side as well....
Hybridizing season has officially begun
Eric, I have some of your seeds that Arlene sent me. They are doing wonderfully well, under lights (finally) about 3-4 inches tall in 5 weeks. Arlene reminded me that you breed your brugs to flower the first year, so I am very hopeful and excited. I will plant some of yours directly in the ground with cannas around them.
Good luck Eric with your brug gardens, and thanks again to you and Arlene for the seeds.
Brugman - I like the idea of the enclosed brug garden. I can see it in my mind. I hope you take pictures.
Brugman, isn't life grand, glad you shared your plans. i garden for myself and critters, nothing like my local gardening friends, but we all seem to enjoy the outcome. i'm leaving several seedlings in the ground where they popped up, so far have had great luck transplanting the ones that i have-- 30 plus in pots, 70 plus to go and they are still popping up, 5 different areas so far. this year i sure won't just drop seeds i think are immature or frozen. Pebble, i am so glad the seeds are doing well for you.
I am doing a double wall pattern actually where each segment forms a "v" so a chain of Brugs in a square actually goes VVVVVVV
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This year the square is just my most favorite Brugmanisa and seedlings so the center has enough room for a single bench, a few melon plants, a daylilly bed, marigolds, tomatoes, etc. Nothing fancy. A rose wall is off to the right and outside of the Brugmansia fence. I do have a single oak tree in the center top of this square though its limbs only shadow the arborea's and a very few aurea's for a few hours on the west side.
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Arlene, do you remember how scared I was to even try them? You should see them now, I will have to take a picture of them and post them.
Maybe today when I get home from work...
Ahh, well I can see my above rendition did not come out as it was expected to. I tried editing to fix it and alas that was not possible. Suffice it to say if you can visualize a vvv line going around in a square then that is the shape of my square. This allows me to plant them a little closer together and still allows them to grow out a bit. Alternating color scheme as best I can manage between whites, pinks, yellows, oranges, peaches, and trying not to plant anything too close to another that looks too similar and those that are trully unique....I try to place on the inner circle of course.
I think staggard(is that spelled right?) is the word your looking for Eric.
I think staggard(is that spelled right?) is the word your looking for Eric.
Staggerd
Brugman. . . your garden sounds lovely and it will be a beautiful, peaceful place to go and sit.
All my cuttings are doing wonderful and I have potted them up and they getting so tall and wide. I also have seedlings that are actually small plants now. It is almost unbelievable to me when I see how large they are now. I also have some seeds that I planted in January that are just now coming up. I was just about ready to throw them out I took the tray outside and wet it down real good and left it in the sunshine and within 3 days I have four little heads popping up. Previously I had these on a heat mat inside and misted them daily. These seedlings are some of your crosses and I will let you know if there is something special there and also send you a picture and let you decide.
Brugnanny, I sincerely hope to you enjoy those little seedlings. I personally can't wait for the next generation to awaken from their slumber. I must confess though, I only kept my favorites so all of the potential crosses will be my favorites in the yard this year. Still, when it comes time to seperate the seeds there is always one cross that I desire most of all. I know what that one cross is this year, but I won't be able to make that one cross this year as I don't have access to enough of that pollen to grow a dozen or so seedpods. So, in effect I am making my second best cross for myself and not my most favorite for myself. But, as they say, perhaps my second best pick will prove to be my best pick and its a good thing we can't always do what we think is best sometimes. Still, I would be most confused if I actually kept all of my most desired seeds for myself...confused as always.