I only have 2 brugs & this fall I neglected to cut them back. Now I have dead looking sticks with no signs of life anywhere. Did I kill my plants? I sure hope not as they were so pretty. I promise to do better next time.
Sugar.. hoping not to be brugless this summer.
Bad Brug Mama??
you're lucky you live in FL !!! lol. just cut them back to the ground. they will start putting out soon for you.
I'm going to bring you something to the swap. not sure what yet, but something to make sure you aren't brugless. I think yours will come back though.
Gosh Bonnie, how many brugs cuttings do you have rooted? People are so lucky you have so many and can share them. I wouldn't have room to keep them all over the winter. How many seedlings do you have going? This is going to be a great brug summer. Can't wait to see everyone's pictures this year.
not enough. I could have made a fortune if I'd kept them all. I've had to turn the answering machine on for calls from our local market bulletin and am taking orders. but I'll always find something for a friend. I have over 100 seedlings, but more come up every day!
I don't know how you find time to do everything. With mailing out books, co-ops, your own stuff, working on BGI, doing your own thing on the computer, etc.....you must be stretched pretty thin some days. Better get some rest....spring is almost here.
lol! I bet you work hard too!! I don't think I know a brug lover that doesn't, do they go hand in hand?
Brugmania Yes we had 2 freezing spells. One in Nov while we were gone on a emergancy trip to my son in VA. I lost all my pond plants in that.. at least the floaters. We had PVC hoops up to make a minie green house over the pond but going QUICK to VA was more important than putting plastic over it. I had Ivy geraniums in the shed under lites that my daughter sent back with me from VA & they were blooming till a Freeze hit us in Jan. I was helping to put a cover & a lite over the well & somehow my lites were unplugged.. U guessed it.. they died. I do have some spider plants that were sent back from VA still living. I guess that's part of gardening *G*
TiG I'm not picky.. all brugs are pretty. I cut my back today & hoping.
Sugar
Sugar - I have no doubt that yours will be back, mine are starting to peek up now here near Atlanta.
Glory
Mar 21, 2003
Sugar,
Check the FL Plant swap listed in the roundup forum and let me know if there is any on my list you might be interested in.
Sugar,
I had 8 in the ground over winter. One of them seems to have not made it, but the others are shooting up sprouts now. If they were in pots outside, might be touchy as to whether or not they will come back. I did mulch mine with hay, but still lost the one. Maybe your will make it back too.
Azalea, you are in zone 7b and your brugs overwinter in the ground? Any special techniques you use? How cold did it get there in GA this winter??? Thanks, John
John, I'm here too, just a bit from PJ, and it got down to 9° which is really pretty low. We hadn't gotten that low in several years. None of mine have put out sprouts, but that's not to say they won't. I didn't leave anything out that I wasn't prepared to lose, it was more a test. Last winter I had some come back that I left out in an unprotected one gallon pot. I don't think any would have made it like that this winter ;) but I do hope some in the ground did.
Thanks tiG. As you know I am also in zone 7, but conditions are a bit more harsh here in NJ than in GA. Our low was probably 5 degrees...and no doubt lasted longer... I am within 10 miles of the shore, so there is some maritime influence (which in fact makes it 7 instead of 6, although borderline.) I have a hundred or so 1 gallon pots out there, (not Brugs) and am surprised almost everything is fine. Had some 3 gallon pots of cannas, and there are signs of life (probably more than in the roots that were stored indoors.) John
I just mulched them with compost - I have had one in the ground for 5 years now, but about 3 of the ones I planted last year are coming back too. As Tig said, we got down to 8-9F for a couple of nights, the first time in several years.
I will keep a good thought for all you that had such bad freezes!
Glory I will be happy with anything. A lot of our plants have not come back so far. It did get pretty cold a couple of times this winter. I'm still hoping though. One of the brugs was in a 5 gallon pot & the other in the ground in kinda a raised bed.. I would think it would be time for bedding plants like four O'Clock, Zinnias & all to reseed but nothing yet. I did find one bright red Gerbera Daisy hid under a butterfly bush today. The butterfly bush has done well.
Our lowest temp was 9F this winter.Most of my in-ground brugs seem to be coming back.
That's really strange gone2seed, Our lowest temp. here was approx. 28F!
Bruno
Wicklow, Ireland.
Bruno,we regularly get down into the lower teens in winter.
9 was the lowest I have seen in many years.The northern part of Florida is not like the tourist bureaus would have you believe.We get the extremes here.Highest I have ever seen is 107F and the lowest 6F.Usual summer humidity is
in the 85-95% range.About the only two places I can think of with worse climate are west Texas and Hell,not necessarily in that order.
roflol!!! JT, that sounds just like our weather here too.
Glory
Mar 26, 2003
JT,
LOL