Okay, I am intrigued. What is it about Brugs that fascinates you all? I have never grown them but everybody seems to love them. Tell me why....
Mobi
What's the deal with Brugs....
Even as a plain ole white,they are pretty,and you really can not beat the evening smell.
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Mobi:
Where else can you find a bush/tree that can grow in the garden or containers, can be trained as a shrub or a tree, can be grown in sun or shade, bloom continuously, at times covering itself completely with flushes of blooms, produce spectacular, mostly large, fragrant flowers that come in many shapes, forms and colors?
Need more reasons? Once you have one chances are high you'll want another. Then another. Then ... Well, it can become addictive, and brug addicts do NOT want to be cured!
to me...it was because they were so easily propagated and were at the same time so tricky. i'm always up for a challenge, especially when the reward is so beautiful.
i was wondering the same thing when i first found this forum...whats so great about brugs? and really it just intrigued me that so many people were *in love* that i needed to know more. and another thing, is that when i first started, this forum seemed the most friendly and active and i wanted to get to know these people. so, all these things were a draw for me.
art_n_garden: I agree with you whole heartedly! Are your babies doing well?
My vote goes to the fact that they are easily propagated. It is an easy plant to share cuttings of with friends. It ships well, it can be cross pollinated to get seeds that will give you a totally different brug that will be tall and straight from seeds. The smell is different on some of them, the colors used to be all white or pale colors and now there are some that are very dark. It is very forgiving in case it goes dry. One good drink and back it comes. Biggest drawback would be bugs and caterpillars, but once you figure out how to take care of them, everything will run smoothly. How's that for being windy, which by the way, they handle wind well too.
its a two sided coin----the plants on one side,--the gardeners on the other.
They are exciting!! from pollination to flower, only a year to wait!
yes kaufmann they are! I have one that's just taken off in soil. most of the others are in water and doing good. thank you for asking.
and another thing mobi-- due to its easy propagation, its a CHEAP addiction (thanks to all these nice people here)
LOL Art_n_garden! You must be new to this addicton. Just wait till you start to buy your 15 gallon pots by the case, and your dirt by the truck full and your fertilizer by the ton! Cheap..................LOL........not quite!!!
I am trying to rent some land just to grow out my seeds.
hahaha. hmmm. uhoooh. new, yes i am. i guess i should ammend my statement-- acquiring the brugs is cheap. upkeep, i guess not :)
living in an 800 sq ft apartment does NOT lend itself to raising brugs. so far i have 15 cuttings, since november. shelves have become my new best friend. i just keep building new ones to hold all my plants-brugs and other houseplants. especially with the new puppy, nothing can be on the floor. in may though, i am moving into a house. i get a yard!! yaaay.
i think i'm going to have to limit myself though...when they get bigger. but that never works!!
"i think i'm going to have to limit myself though..."
Hey guys, where have we all heard that before? LOL
Once the brug bug bites beware: addiction is sure to follow.
I started out to landscape my front and back yards with a tropical look: tupidanthus, bananas, cannas, and a few brugs along the wall but WHAM! the brug bug took over and I've pretty much turned over my backyard to their cultivation and propagation. I'm in a collecting mode now, so I will be looking for donations and trades from the good people here. I agree: everyone in this brug forum is so nice. I feel like I'm part of a large family.
mainfrog said it!!! Once the brug bug has bitten you, youare hooked. There is no cure for it! Take me for instance, I am hooked for more than 20 years and I am just as crazy aout these plants as I have been in my early days LOL! My 25th brug anniversary has already passed by.
And look at the difference in the brugs in those 25+ years.
Geez Monika, can you download all that information into a simple disk for my brain, I have to wait another 18 or 19 years to be that good....... I am already tired.
My answer to that question would be everything, smell, sight, satisfaction of growing, colors, seedpods,and don't forget all the friends we have made growing them.
Just look at all the potential new babies!
Way to go Tracey!!!!
Mobi Mobi Mobi!!! LOL Im gonna have to get you going on them!! They are only a car ride away.
I dont think I would have ever jumped both feet into brugs the way I did, if it wast for the wonderful, amazing, knowledgable, SO generous group of people. I agree with all the above said.
Tracey, these pods look promising!
I found a picture of my very first hybrid from way back in the eighties, which differed from all the suaveolens hybrids I had before. I composted the plant because I was so dissappointed LOL!
Post the pic Monika! PLEASE
Tracey, who made those wondrous pods hanging like grape clusters???