EVEN a FEW MORE
EVEN a FEW MORE
Wow!!! Looked at all your pictures - and I want a yard like that!! How many Brugs are you growing? I can't wait to see the pictures of them blooming!
Should be quite a show!
Enjoying the picture show myself :)
Things are really looking good for you!
I can hardly wait. I have babied, not, these suckers over the winter. I quit giving them fert in Oct of last yr and only started giving fert to them in April of this yr. Oh, I would water them every other week during the winter. The low in my gh for the winter was 35.5 degrees and the high was 91.5 degrees. I did not have enough space to keep them really growing during the winter. I quit counting how many I have, but if it doesn't rain much this summer, I'll be using 2-3 hundred gallons of water daily. I may have to invest in a well.
Wow Hummer! You've gotta a lot of plants there ;o) I wish I could be a bee in your garden this summer! They look great. Most of mine are still naked. It will be awesome when things start blooming.
Look healthy plants than mine! LOL.. Now I know why??? Forget to feed mine with fert. I better go and feed them with fert today!
Hummer, you're going to have a yard full of blooms this summer.
I know I would love to have your yard, even before seeing it in full bloom. Hope you will bring some pictures to the forum when you have all the blooms.
Shirley, I'm always around, just do not post much. I have learned a lot from people here. The 1st thing I did when I joined Dave's was go back and read all the old post on the brugmansia thread. I bought Monika's book and even though I do not do everything like her, because of differences in climate, I have learned a lot from her. Calla has been a life saver to me. That girl has the "Midas" touch. She can grow just about anything. As for me, I garden on the premiss that if the Lord wanted me to have a particular plant then I could just put it in the ground and it would survive if he so desired.
You don't want to know how many lived short lives. Pics will be coming soon.
Yep, Susie has helped a lot of us a lot of times. I had the same attitude about growing things, but for some reason, brugs just don't do it like most of the perennials do. I love to give it a shot though.
Amazing how great yours do! God must like brugs! That is a lot of water. I am afraid to ask my husband how much I use. I can't wait to see your yard in color!
These darn brugs have caused me more work than I ever wanted to do, garden wise. I'm still undecided if they are worth it or not. It really is wonderful when they reward you with such unique scents and flowers though. I prefer the treatment my perennials get, almost none. I guess that is why I have never had much success growing roses. That and I think they like more sun than what I have available. I hate all the leaves in the fall and winter, but welcome the new green growth in the spring and shade in the summer from our southern heat and humidity.
I dont know much about your climate Larry, but when you speak of humidity, Brugmansias love high humidity. This is my problem here. Humidity seldom goes over 40%.
Monika posted: Brugmansias love high humidity. This is my problem here. Humidity seldom goes over 40%.
I'm in Larry's zone and our humidity is horrible, I do hope the brugs like it, the plant LOVED it last year and grew to over 10 feet; however, I would think we would have more bugs, mildew, etc. My 10 ft plant, is now about 2 feet. But, guess what. Amazingly, there are two plants this year, where there was only one last year and they are about 2 feet apart. What's that all about?? I did a terrible thing when I pulled off the mulch and cut them back. The top of the limbs was dried mush. First I cut them off leaving about 3 feet of what looked like dead wood. Later, when I bought a brug and saw how it was groomed, I went back and cut my two down to about 6 inches to the ground. Now, I could shoot myself, because that 'dead' wood is putting out new growth. I'd give anything if I had put the other 'dead' wood into the ground or water, or some in both. Oh, well...
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