When in CA this is what you wake up to.
Preparation for a New Brug Alley . . .
And if in the master bedroom, this is what you wake up to.
Perspective from bed
Bedroom looks like this . . . crook pic; bed not made well . . . no time to re-take pic
Oops!
Bedroom:
WOW, what a fun thread, TwinLakesChef, I enjoyed every word, and each and every detail, and it wore me out - what an amazing mission you accomplished, in such a short time, and the updates are super!!! I have guest towels that match the pictures in your bedroom, the shoe and the handbag, gifts from my niece. I love your place and your brugs are wonderful!!!
Arlene...so nice to see your CA. home! How big were the cuttings when you put them in? They really grew large in a short time...now I can see where your cuttings are coming from!
Looks great! What good friends to plant for you, SoCal and Jul...you did good!!
Margie
Be sure to look at the "year"
In the Fall of '03 I drove 3 hours to Chariton and Brugie gave me many cuttings of her Brugs.
Started rooting them per Brugie's instructions
A few weeks later, SoCal had a DG get together at her home in CA; with Brugie's permission, I mailed a box to Donna for the garden party.
After the DG meeting at Donna's house I returned to Orange with cuttings from other Californians and left them at the house to root. My daughter changed the water periodically all winter. There was no time to plant them before I left as the gardener's didn't finish preparing the beds.
Donna and Jul offered to step in and help but because the gardener was so slow to come back and finish plus the holidays all came along, they were not really planted in the ground until Jan But you can see they really took off.
As it turned out, some people that Brugie's cuttings were promised to were unable to attend for various reasons last minute. So Donna babysat them all winter. She was a little "brug granny".
In Feb Donna gave me Brugies left overs people failed to pick up. So that bunch is a month behind the first bunch. Today all of them are about one year in the ground.
First six months they had NO attention; in July they were like a jungle~pruned some into tree form and others to bush out. In Nov ~ more pruning. And again in January!
Donna looked at them yesterday and showed me where I could still cut away on the tree form ones. So I have a ways to go to get them to be the shape they should be.
Also need to underplant with something attractive. That would detract from them when they are in their ugly stages.
This message was edited Mar 4, 2005 6:08 PM
Sherry,
Most of those cuttings were Brugies that she shared with me when I was a newbie. (still feel like a newbie considering how many I killed). Some came from the party at SoCal's. Lost most everthing in Iowa. Lucky they did so well on their own in CA or I would have very little to fall back on for Iowa.
Need to post the blooms to get ID; tags got mixed up and I can't identify most of them. Will do that when I get back to Iowa and have more time. Maybe an ID contest.
Glad you enjoyed the pictures.
When they all are in bloom it will be quite a sight to wake up to every morning!
Hi Kell,
Every one is loaded with buds; it is just that they are not quite open; I suspect the rains have been helpful to them plus the new good soil they are in.
They are pretty sad; crooked etc but what beautiful blooms for just being "thrown" in. They really like that grey wall ~ morning sun afternoon shade ~ of course except for the parts that peek over the top and get sun all day.
I think they are too close together so I will be lifting some or taking cuttings and re-starting. This is just the beginning.
Very nice update Arlene
thanks
Dick
LOL Arlene, that is the problem!! It is always just the beginning! LOL
Neat pics and story! I'm glad the rains didn't trample your Brugs! When we were down there, we lucked out and didn't get any rain, but it was cooler in P.S. than normal. We lucked out in Vegas as well - it started raining the night before we left - we watched the Bellagio fountain in the rain. :-)
Thank you for the complements.
Karrie, sorry I missed seeing you ~ the Bellagio fountain is very beautiful ~ even in the rain. Were you close enough to hear the music co-ordinated to the movement of the fountain?
How lovely! I'm so glad you took the after shots. The brugs look so healthy and what beauties. How much of the year are you in CA? Your zone really is 4b? YIKES.... I wouldn't be leaving my ca house if I was you.
Hard to discipline myself to follow through . . sorry so slow
I go to CA 6-7 times a year. I love both worlds for different reasons.
Glad you like it; it should only get better.
regards to all
a
TLC - Yes - we heard the music that was sychronized to the fountains. AWESOME! There were so many neat things that I saw there, it's really hard to say which ones were my favorite. I like the Bellagio for it's elegant decor, I loved Ceasars for it's shops & neat moving and colored fountains, I liked EVERYTHING but didn't, of course see everything. I was ready to come home after 4 days of it.
One more, taken in April
The brugs are beautiful!!
Judy
Gorgeus Arlene...
Oh look how they grew Arlene, they look GREAT! Good for you :-) Your brug alley looks wonderful I know you must be proud as you should be :-)
Hugs Julie
Thank you, everyone. . . Sure make a mess in the pool, though!
I was wondering about that but you take care of that I can see that....it's still little to pay in order to have beauty. That's what you've got my friend...it's very pretty. You are most welcome.