My little Iocroma babies (thanks Brinda for providing me with a link to another obsession!)are all potted up. Now what??? Do they like sun or shade. Should I just let them join my new brug family & let them grow up together. Do they eat & drink the same? Can they go in the ground when they grow up? They look like mini me's of brugs. But when they arrived the tiny purple blooms made up for size!
Keep them pretty dry and bright.
My iochromas don't get quite as much fertilizer as my brugs, and aren't as thirsty. I have them in part shade/part sun. They definitely don't like wet feet. They will get really big, but aren't real upright growing, tend to be pretty lax.
Here is Indigo.
Sky Blue.
Wine Red.
Ilie's Plum.
Royal Blue.
Beware Back to back! They will sprawl all over. I had 3 last year and had to take 2 out. They get huge. I just went out and took this pic for you. It is all the green you see in the background. It has totally smothered all the plants around it. Some hang down and some limbs go straight up.
Mine is in full sun and I water and fertilize it when I water and fertilize the brugs that are planted next to it in the garden. I am taking it out soon becauase I just do not have the room.
heck,I like them all.......
I just have to remind myself there is no room.....
Great pictures Mary.
Mary your killin' me! What a great collection.
Kell the ones you sent me definetly need more water where I'm at. Too hot and dry during the summer.
Did they live DR?
Barely hanging in there. I hope now that it's cooler and wetter they will be ok.
WRONG NAMES? Kurtuz sent Plum, Royal Blue, Indigo & was sold out of Grandiflora. I guess everybody lost their name tags! Who is this?
Mary, what an amazing collection & Kell.... is there any plant you don't have????
LOL Back2back! Unfortunately lots! My goal is to have grown every gaudy flowering one there at least once to get to know it.
These get huge and will where you are so beware! There is one here at a nursery in Berkeley that is in excess of 12 feet I bet. It is more tree like. I am not very good at pruning weekly. I have cut mine down to the ground several times.
Hard to tell from pictures, B2B, but that one looks like Plum.
Oops Bambi, good thing you have lots of space for your new babies. LOL I had no idea they would take over like that when I sent you that link. I just fell in love with them and knew I had no hope of growing them here. But I do think I'm going to try one or two next spring. (Uggg, another to worry about bringing in for the winter) Just stick them in the back somewhere and enjoy!!!
