Can someone explain what underplantings are. I'm hoping to plant my brugs in the ground soon & I need some brug planting ideas. What other plants will live happily with my brug babies? I guess a banana wouldn't be an underplant.
Thanks everyone!
Underplanting Photos?
I have Impatiens growing beneath of couple of my B. versicolors, and they seem to be doing quite well. Creeping sage is really nice too. I posted an old picture below, but they have really filled out since this picture. Nasturtiums would work too.
Petunias might look nice, think I saw a photo of this somewhere ;-)
I also read about planting herbs, to deter some insects. I think chives(?) were the most popular, and kept the most bugs away.
I used torenia in this one, but have used verbena under those in the ground as well as ice plant. I know....Ice plant likes it dry, but it did well under there with all the moisture and fertilizer. I've also used petunias with good luck. I would think that Parsley would be pretty and do well with the fertilizer and moisture too.
The underplanting as it was two years ago. I switch once in a while, even though, impatiens do best in my climate.
Here's mine with the double petunias. It was amazing with all the rain this past summer.
Monika, what a wonderful picture, all those brugs and other flowers. Hope spring comes soon!!! But guess I'll get more snow first. Donna
Monika's pic is to die for!
Underplanting is my middle name. I cram all the color in I can.
I underplant in pots mostly. I usually put in some dahlia tubers in the brug pots when I redo them in the early spring. They seem to do great and love the fertilizer. Amaryllis bulbs seem to do well in them also. I also use impatiens, verbena and petunias. Actually anything I have around!
All these are in pots.
Some great looking Brugs on this thread!!!!!
You gals sure know your stuff! Some really great photos and plantings. What I wouldn't give for a endless summer. Currently we have 6" of snow on the ground and it's frezzing.
I know I'm late...but I've been without a computer since Thanksgiving, so I'm reading all the posts that I missed. These pics are just gorgeous! I'm drooling while sitting here with 5" of snow on the ground.
Kristi, yours is so pretty! I just love your yard!
Kell, is that a picture from your tree? Sure looks pretty.
It is my tree at work Brugie that I decorated. I then went to Macy's yesterday and bought more ornaments for it. You would think it was mine! LOL We had a Christmas cookie social the other day at work so I got it together. Mine at home won't go up till Christmas eve!
What a beautiful tree!
I hadn't looked at this thread before, and those pictures from all of you are just beautiful. I hadn't thought of using underplantings before, but what a wonderful idea. The problem that I have in our climate is what to use. Impatiens need almost full shade here, petunias die off by June, torenias need shade and verbenas don't like a lot of water. Anyone have any suggestions?
Sylvia, if it is that hot, don't you put your brugs in some shade too? I would think they would cook otherwise. How about short zinnias or ice plant. Will have to think about this one for a while.
ur garden is beautiful monika. i hope some day to have one that pretty.
I had coleus do real well as an underplanting. It seems to like the excess water and fertilizer that brugs require.
The only brugs that I have that are big enough to be planted out are the 2 gold ones I call "Old Faithful". They have done great in full sun. I don't know about the others yet, as they are still small and on my covered patio. I sure hope they can take sun, because my yard doesn't have much shade anywhere.
I'm sitting here at the computer on a cold dreary day dreaming of Spring. As I look out the window on my backyard full of dead and dormant plants, I thought I would just bump this thread up, so we could all enjoy it and plan ahead.
mini, Already Jan 31 !
.....I think we should name this Hump-Day. I feel as if we are on the better side now as the days grow longer. Evidenced by all my window brugs waking up and putting leaves on so fast you can hear them growing at night....LOL
§hirley in Smallfrozentownrednecktractorville, WI
This message was edited Jan 31, 2004 4:11 PM
Sounds good to me. It was depressing yesterday. I actually went to HD and Lowe's looking for Spring annuals, and they didn't have anything but pansies. I know that I'm ahead of myself, but by another month we will be well on the way to warm weather here in South Texas. Hey, I think I just saw a ray of sunshine outside. I'm off to investigage. lol
Have fun,
I wouldn't make it to the truck before the pansies froze, but things are looking up.
.........Learned a lesson today... stockpile growing amenities for the winter. Everywhere I went the , the stacks of baggged composted cow-poo are frozen into one big ice-berg =(
SHOOT !!!
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Underplanting in brug containers
Wow, those look really nice, Monika.
Shirley-
LOVE that torenia! ...gotta find some of that...
-T
Monica has the BEST trees... I'm going to be striving to get mine into thinking like hers... and underplanting.... here's one.. Gordon.. roof gardening
Wow! It matches perfectly to the white color of the Brugmansia flowers.
Beautiful arrangement Gordon, where ya been so long?
Well thanks Monica... yes I love them togeher...They heve been growing there in the pot with Cypress Gardens for a couple of years.. as I keep them up and running year round.. but it doesn't seem to bother either of them.. this is the fourth flush of blooms this year.. I'll get some photos of other underplantings... this is the same CG plant from afar...
Linda.. thanks... well as you can see I've been busy keeping it all growing
Gorodn... rooftop gardening..
Just amazing, what a view. I've missed seeing your posts.
Beautiful GH...but how do you live in that SMOG?
Well .. Linda.. if you've missed them... You're in LUCK...here's a few more ... to this two year old thread..
Carol... Well yes it looks bad in the picture... but that's a low morning gray cloud behing the city.. making it look smoggy... the buildings are clear [ Wall Street / lower manhattan ] ... and that's about a mile or so away..across the Brooklyn Bridge years ago if it was smoggy... you couldn't make them out... and as far as seeing a mile away back then... an impossibility... buildings some 10-20 blocks away would be obscured .. but you're right .. terrible look to that particular photo.. like hadies blasting brimstone smoke...
OH Thanks for this thread.. it got me looking closer at this one.. I'd not noticed the return of the spider mites... just attributed it to being bare root shipped...
Miners Claim and something with the same coloration when everyone is healthy..
A pink with irish moss and portulaca [ sp ]
with a dusty miller
Double White and ivy
the feathery under planting has a brillant tiny red and yellow flower ... when it's not trying to cope with fall
