Brugie said to "jump right in!" And since I have been taking much advice from you all, please allow me to say thank you, and Hello. Kaufman's Brug supplement is going to cost me a small bundle, Brugie's suggestion to go to Angels By Ashley already has, and Springsong's offer of cuttings has touched my heart. Monika replied quickly to my query, and so you see you have already enriched my life.
Last fall I asked about overwintering my Brugs from Plants Delights in NC, (everyone said don't), and soon I will see if you were right.
jumpin' in
You mean you left them in the ground? I hope they made it. I think a lot depends on how severe the winter gets and how much moisture is in the ground. I'm glad you are here. We aren't always serious, we love pictures, and I hope you are able to handle our funny side. Some days we can go way off the wall. LOL!! Jump in and have fun with us.
Welcome Polly!!!
You'd be surprised. My concoction is not that expensive... Its $14 for a gallon of seaweed, $11 for a gallon of molasses, $8 for the Super Thrive, $.89 for a big bottle of H202, and about $5. for the Tea Tree Oil. It all goes a LONG way! It will last quite a while... Gretchen
Hallo and welcome to Davesgarden Polly! Zone 7b would equal the mild climate regions in Germany. I keep my fingers crossed for you.
Glad you jumped in, Polly! We love new people around here.
Good luck on your brugs! I sure hope they did not die for your sake. Did you know about our Brug Abuse Court? Susie from Texas is the judge. Maybe she will take pity on you since you are a new member here in Brugland.
Welcome Polly ... glad to have you here with us!
Kell .... hehehe, don't scare her away!!!
Yeah Kell, nobody's perfect. Since she's new, we just might give her a second chance if she kills her first ones.
Hi Polly.
We had a scary 32 Sunday and Monday at 5:00am - was watching because we were supposed to go to 28. That should be our last under 40 degrees, but I will still wait until the 17th to remove my foot of mulch around Sunset and Snowbank. (Plant Delights called them perennials). That's the day my Chimney Swifts should return, (and I shut my dampers!)
Thank you for your kind welcomes! Hope to have cuttings to share in the fall.
I hope your Brugs. make it, maybe with all that mulch. Brugs. are tender perennials. They are tropical plants,and live where it doesn't freeze. If you are lucky and they are O.K., you will learn,from this site, other ways to make sure your plants overwinter safely.Welcome to the garden!
Bonnie
Hi and welcome pollygardening. I have my finger crossed that your Brugs made it. I left mine couple of mine out year before last and they never came back. I had a huge barrell full of leaves that I turned upside down over mine and they still didn't make it. Our winter was milder this past winter so hopefully yours made it.
Welcome Polly. You left a Snowbanks out? Please keep us posted on it. It's relatively new to most of us and we are still feeling our way around just how tough it is. The general opinion so far is that it isn't. Sun-wise anyway.
The stalk above the foot of mulch is certainly dead; I'm just hoping the roots survived and will send out new shoots.
I've ordered a new European hybrid, Pink Beauty -- anyone had experience with that?
Monika has answered my question with her beautiful Cinderella!
I have also ordered Rosemond.
Painted pots slate blue yesterday, and am anticipating a pink, purple, rose section of my patio. Went to our Botanical Gardens for a talk by Sydney ? (names are not my forte) on color in the garden using containers. She designs and arranges her colors from her favorite paintings , and I am eager to do the same.
You'll have to make pictures for us to see.
Many of us have Pink Beauty. She has large blooms, long tendrils, not a lot of fragrance, at least to my nose, and I thought she was very slow at getting started. She does get quite large too. Good bloomer once she gets going. You will like her. Yes.....we will need pictures of everything. LOL!
I also would love to see pictures. We are very curious LOL!
PB and Rosamond look alot alike. So make sure you keep the tags on them for you may be unable to tell which is which later. I will be interested in having side by side pictures when they both start putting on a show for you!
Rosamond is one of my all time favorites!
Wow! MAybe I can have something that spectacular with Kaufmann's brew!
YOU CAN!!! That is why we are all brug nuts here!! Brugs are such show offs. LOL
Gretchen,
This is the first I am hearing about your 'brew'! Do you others use it as well. How often do you apply it? Just to brugs or to other plants as well?
Were would I get the tea tree oil?
I am just starting with brugs and need all the help I can get!
Margie
Margie, I've not used Gretchen's brew, but I know you can get the tea tree oil at WalMart in the pharmacy section. It is near the vitamins and minerals. I'm sure you will do great with your brugs.
Sorry Margie, I've been busy working in my garden since 6 AM and just got back inside. Whew, I'm bushed! Anyway, I too am new to brugs. I started some cuttings in December and January, lots of seeds the end of January and I ended up with 80+ plants! I have given several away, but for the most part they're all residing in my tiny little greenhouse until the last danger of frost is past. So, I use that concoction on all my plants, it just so happens that brugs seem to love it too :)
Hi! I'm a newbie. What are the quantities in Kaufmann's Brew and how often to use it? I would love the recipe! I just got Snowbank, so we'll see if it survives ME! lol
Yvonne
I'll bring up the thread that has a lot of good stuff in it.
The Snowbank was dug up yesterday, and moved. After reading your discussion about its distaste for full sun, I took action and placed it in a shadier area. The leaves did yellow last summer, and it never thrived.
It overwintered and was alive from about 8 inches down. So now I'll see if it sends out new shoots. At this time of year, the foot of mulch it was under tends to keep plants cool, so it was time to remove that anyway.
What likes full sun, especially?
I think the easiest way to find out which can take the sun in your area is to just put them there and watch. When you get the horrible heat during the summer, watch to see how they react to it. If they wilt badly, you will know that they will need more shade the next summer. I never had a plant die from the heat, just wilt and then perk up again in the evenings. I still have more in full sun than half sun and they are planted in the ground out in full sun. Actually need less water than those in pots.
And can they wilt! My Sunset would bend all the way over last summer even in her protected area when she needed water, and the next morning she would be up on tiptoes and happy again. I moved her last fall because her large varigated leaves were too strong in with her neighbors the camellias.
Brugs need the right setting, for sure.
I've never had a camellia. In fact, I'm not sure I've ever seen one other than in pictures.
Oh Brugie! My garden is full of blooming camellias every time we have a few warm days in winter, and all March and April. I have roses, whites, pinks and reds -- bushes 8 feet tall with glistening dark green leaves surround my patio. Across the back we have susanquas (these bloom in the fall and grow to ten feet). Camellias are my very favorite evergreen plant of all,though I grow Daphne for beautiful scent in the late winter. Richmond VA is the place to visit in MArch to see a camellia display!
You will have to help satisfy my need for pictures. Would love to see some of your flowers in bloom
Pollygardening, Camellias are beautiful. I only have two. I have too many other things to have more of them. I love them because they bloom so early.
are there any camellias that can be grown in a GH?
The retail stores are full of Camellias that were grown in greenhouses; the problem is their nature to bloom after several warm days in winter, get zapped the next cold spell, and finally bloom profusely from early March on. There ae early and late varieties that would bloom through April, but I think all varieties would bloom before it is safe to put them out in zone 5.
There is a variety of fragrant Daphne that will overwinter in 5a with some mulching with pine; that is low growing cneorum - use as a ground cover; "Eximea" has the larger, pink
flower.
The beautiful evergreen Winter Daphne Odora only makes it through zone 7. It blooms late Feb rhrough MArch with the most incredible fragrance that fills the air.
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Lets see some pics Polly! I love camellias. Usually it is rainy here when they bloom so mine get brown alot. I think a neighbor has the Daphe Odora and it is incredibly fragrant.
Can you believe I live in the dark ages, and don't know how to get pictures onto the site. I took some yesterday for you, and would be happy to send them by snail mail.
I have a scanner -- unattached -- and would like to learn about using a DVD camera. Will take it up this summer.
Polly, have you tried the european Daphne mezereum? The flowers are pink and very fragrant.
Polly, I was like that also. When I first joined Dave's I had never even used a digital camera. My DH had bought me one 2 years before and it was in the closet unopened. I soon took it out and now I just love taking pictures and sharing. It is so much fun.
I have never heard of that one Monika.
It grows wild in our forests. You dont see it, you smell it. The fragrance is very strong. I have one in my garden. I love it.
It flowers very early.
Monika, that is a lovely lavender! Imagine going thru the forest and letting your nose guide you to its bloom. (Maybe the Spessart forest where my father's family name originates)! The Odora is evergreen, my varietiy is varigated, and will overpower if you bring a bouquet into the house.
Kell, you inspire me! I WILL get a DVD -- my daughter already
bought me a scanner that is cluttering up here. Plus I have my doggies to show off, too!