to get a Brug at? I've decided that I'd like to try a couple this year... I ordered an Angel Trumpet from Gurneys, and I'm assuming that it's the same thing, but I'd like to get a couple of others "just in case" Or, if I started seed now, would that work? If seed, where is the best place to get seed?
I'm a TOTAL newbie to this, but thought I'd like to have a few in pots on the deck this year, or even planted by the deck, if the smell is as heavenly as a few have told me it is....
I'm open to any and all suggestions.
Melissa
Where is the best place
JT
http://countrygdn.com/
mainfrog
http://www.tree-frog.net/
Tracy
http://www.angelsbyashley.com/
All those listed by scooter are good, plus
www.logees.com Logees
If you start seed now, you may have blooms this year or not.
But if you can make it to the TNRU in May, I have free rooted cuttings and plants to share! Nat
Here's my two year old Charles Grimaldi that is grown in a pot.
Nat, your CG is gorgeous. I love the smell of this one and it is such a good bloomer.
It's my favorite for scent and this is one that is easy to grow. I just wish that I had not let it grow so wide. I am rooting some of the longer shoots so that I can have standards instead of big bushes.
Of course, when this one is in bloom, I love to sit on my front porch and watch the cars slow down to get a good look. LOL
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Wowzers... What a beauty! Did you over winter it? What size pot does that tree need? Just beautiful, Nat!
Your CG is grown in a pot?!? Amazing! I'll just bet the cars slow down. That would be me!
Hah!
.............. Nat, I remember that picture, such a beautiful brug .
.........................Not to mention the beaming gardener standing so proudly with her gorgeous CG.
Life is good.
Thanks Morph, Much to my DH's displeasure, 1/2 of our 2 car garage is used as my winter greenhouse. This particular brug was bungee corded to the porch to keep it from falling over and it is so heavy that it takes both my husband and I to move it. I am a pretty strong woman, and I can hardly budge the thing! I had put it into the basement to go dormant until I discovered it had seedpods. Then, I moved it back upstairs to the garage when DH wasn't looking.
How big is the pot? Big, really big! I think it is in a 25 gallon pot ( I am not good with measurement or sizes, LOL). And it appears to be a solid mass of roots now. It may take a backhoe to dig a big enough hole, but this one is going into the ground this year. Maybe I can grow the largest brug in Tennessee this summer.
That would be great! You could get a picture taken by the World Record people!!! I can't imagine just the two of you managing it so you must be strong. Good luck with the transplanting this year and go for it on getting the largest brug ever! Maybe its fragrance will waft our way ~ lol.
I notice a pink sitting on the porch too!!
This is one of my Favorite pictures!
nathalyn, that is a beautiful brug and so are you. My CG has never been that large. I hope to creat several brug trees this summer if I can just keep at least part of my seedlings growing until the weather is warm enough to put them outside. I am really having a problem with aphids on them now. I spray every 3 days or oftener with the borax spray with some soap. Kills them but they are right back. Donna
Oh Nathalyn, THAT is gorgeous!!! And you said it's easy to grow? That is probably what I need to start with, something EASY!!
Good eyes, Root! My attention was so focused on the tree & Nat! Hey, this is my last ditch effort to request your snail mail. I can't get it from here since my addy is not listed. And, it seems that if you send it my hitting my name, I don't get it either. But, I'd like to get you those luffa seeds if you are still interested. Good timing about now, too, to get them started ;) Try this email if you'd like a bunch, okay?
FINALLY got it!!!!
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Nat, I think the shape of your CG is beautiful. I like the standards also but I would not like to have all my brugs the same shape and size. I love variety, therefore I like the natural form of brugs and also the standards.
What are some other names that are fragrant and forgiving?
I don't want to kill my first one!
Butterfly and Versicolor orange both have outstanding fragrance. Dr. Suess is also a strong smelling brug. I think you would like almost any of them. They all have something that makes them special.
You will do just fine Melissa!! Just water, fert. water, fert, fert, water, water water water!!! lol
Nat, your CG looks great and your pink on the porch looks so huge and beautiful also!
I love my CG but I was going to say good bye to it this year to make room for an unknown. I am beginning to enjoy the anticipation of seedling more than the brugs I already know. But now with Stangelbrand around so much, I will keep this one.
I am thinking of getting rid of all the ones I am not going to use in hybridizing and make room for seedlings.
Which means less blooms all summer till seedling bloom time............ so sad!
This was taken last spring.
LOL Shelly, you have lots of confidence in me! I'm used to DL's and Iris.... put em in the ground and forget em!
well, not quite that easy, but close!
I have a brother in law who used to be so into growing flowers... I'm thinking that I might get one for him for fathers day, I know he would love the size of it. He used to grow Dalias the size of a meat platter! LOL
I want to put them around the deck, wondering if I should try to find some datura too? Aren't they like a "mini" brug??
BS told me that they were fragrant too, I think.
Kell that is gorgeous!!!!
Melissa, when Nathalyn referred to the TNRU, that is the Tennessee Round-up. We have regional round-ups and you can read about the ones closest to you in the Round-up forum. I am going to one in Georgia on May 1.
Also, be sure to use the Garden Watchdog before you order from a company. It will tell you what kind of service/plants they send and some are pretty awful, others wonderful.
I was new to brugs last year and had some pretty fair results; expecting much better this year. I think all my cuttings came from DG members; I never paid for any except for the postage.
Errr, edited to say that I thought you were new to DG, but I see you've been here since last year, lol
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Melissa, I have two sitting in water that would just love a home.....but it's too cold to mail them!! Yes folks, I am really learning how to take care of a brug...haven't killled one this year....YET! Jo
Melissa, Datura are typically grown as annuals (from seed)in our zones. In your zone, I would recommend starting them from seed inside 6-8 weeks before your last frost. Here is another thread at Daves that better explains the differences.
http://davesgarden.com/t/415263/
Kell, I love your CG standard - - all of your pictures are always so beautiful. I have a large sucker on my CG that I am going to root and train as a standard as soon as my one bloom falls off. And I agree with you on being more cautious now that Stanglebrand is showing up more and more here in the US. I am going to limit acquiring plants from growers that I know and trust.
Root, this picture is for you. It is my effort at having a mini-container jungle in Tennessee. This year, I have been inspired by many of the DG pictures and will have a whole bed devoted to tropicals (yes, I now have bananas!).
What is Stranglebrand?
Sorry that that photo is so dark. My new Tropical bed will be located on the top of this hill outside the fence. It will have brugs (of course), nanas, ee's, cannas, tropical hibiscus and a few red castor beans for texture. The soil here is close to the woods and is nice and loose. Previously, I had avoided planting anything outside my fence as I didn't want to haul water up the hill. Last year, I stuck a vegetable/sunflower bed up there and used soaker hoses. I grew some pretty amazing things up there and now have visions of a tropical garden up there.
LOL! Nat!!
Wallpaper,but that means I had to take down the one with you in it,Hubba Hubba!!!
Kel,Wowser!! Are those Peruvian daffodils in the bottom of that pot???
Morph you have mail from DG and OE,if you don't get it....
Will someone PLEASE send Morph my addy??LOL!!!
That is the closest that I'll ever come to being a pinup girl! Thanks Root! :)
LOL,I don't think so Nat,your picture with your Castor beans looked like I could take you right out and pin you on the fridge!!!
.....Blushing
Nat, your gardens are lovely -- I hope mine look half that nice someday! Thanks for sharing it with us :)
Nat, everything is beautiful at your place. It looks so quiet and peaceful. A tropical bed would be beautiful.
heehee
root-if my peruvian daffodils made it, Ill take a pic. I couldnt get them out of the ground as I had burried them bewteen two oak tree roots before I realized I had to dig them up. Put a ton of mulch over them and still have my fingers crossed.
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Wow, your yard looks great. Would love to have all that green grass here with the plants to liven it up. Another month and maybe things will start to look better here.
Poor, poor Brugie! Such suffering! If I could, you know I would bring spring to you today!
Nat, your verandah looks so inviting. And all that space in your backyard. I love it. What is that red flower in the multi flower pot in the front? Looks too big to be a petunia.
And unfortunately, getting cuttings just from who you trust will not safeguard you against SB. That is the unfortunate thing. It may not have shown up before your friend sends you a piece of it. This is a time we must all be vigilant and if it pops up, immediately let anyone who maybe affected know. And we now must all use good technique in our gardens.
LOL Root, you are such a charmer! It is an amaryllis!
Love your yard, Nathalyn. Looks like a picture from one of the Home and Garden shows.
Thanks guys for your kind words. We had a bunch of rain last year that kept everything green for the entire season. Of course, right now, the only thing green at my house are the cuttings and plants in the garage.
Kell, the flowers in the strawberry jar are red and white impatiens, dianthus, with a touch of a blue/purple flower - - name escapes me.
Here's a closer picture with my godbaby.
I'm with Woodspirit...what is stranglebrand??? Jo
It is brughell!
http://davesgarden.com/t/419455/
edited to say Nat, your godbaby is a doll and your impatiens look huge! I love your mix in there!
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Here's one link with some pictures from Monika, and some great explanations. http://davesgarden.com/t/419455/