This is Rosabelle. A real beauty.
Here is her winter color.
This brug is such a beauty. I fell in love the moment I saw it even though she was in her winter white and not her summer pink!
See how hardy brugs are!!!
Sadly, the gardener at my friend's house weedwacked it 360 degrees around the base of the stem. I was sure it was a goner!
I saw this today with great joy! Not only is it survivinig but growing and has over 40 buds on its little 3 foot frame!
It has several that are about to pop!
I love the flower form...did you wack that gardener with a 2X4 upside the head?:)
Wow thats crazy! and biologically should not be possible! Very pretty flower, I like the shape.
Kell, is that scar clear around the trunk? I was always told if the cambium bark is cut completely around a tree it will kill it. It interups the sap flow. I wonder how a brug can live....
Yes Sue, clear around!! None left. I was amazed when it put put all this new growth. When we first noticed it in the winter, I emailed Monika pictures. I was not sure what had caused it. At one point we thought a rodent had gnawed it all around. Then we noticed lots of the plants and trees have damage in the same place. This one is the worst. Then we realized it was a weedwacker that had done it. Or so we think.
You should see all the buds!!! And it is a small plant.
I didn't realize my DH had gone to CA to do yardwork, but that picture sure looks like his handiwork. LOL
These just don't cease to amaze me. I am not surprise that this one made it. Even more reason to grow and get more brugs. They are just awsome in the surivial department and have such beautiful flowers to......LOL... :o)
Dee
The picture of the weed wacked Brug stem is almost to painful to look at! It obviously was a very hardy Brug to withstand such disfigurement!
I see i am not the only one who has a crazy man weed wacking things .every thing in my yard has a scar on it from his handy weed wacking frenzy!
What just occurred to me is that what I should have done in February or March, is dig this one out and replant it much deeper past the wound so it would root further up the trunk.
Gosh Kell!! That new growth IS from the ground right?! (or at least lower than where the damage was done)
I sure am glad she decided to hang in there. Such a lovely flower!
NO. The damage is on the only stalk that comes up from the ground. See in the picture, the damage is aobut 2 inch from the ground. All the growth starts about a foot up from that.
It is going to be beautiful Kell!!!
Unreal...that's why I do all my own gardening, trimming, weeding and weedwacking! Even if DH would do it for me, I wouldn't even begin to allow it LOL!
She is very pretty Kell. You have some of the most beautiful brugs I've ever seen.
I second that, Shirley. LOL Even if she does let people weedwhack on them
Right...I had forgotten about that. See how quick my memory fails me when I'm tired. LOL!
Kell - I must tell you this thread had me exclaiming out loaud. So loud in fact that my DH & DD both came to see what was going on with this crazy woman in here just talking & laughing so outrageously. Your photos took my breath away, it is stunning. Then to see the damage from that weed wacker had me cursing aloud! I am so glad it survived.
minigranie - your post had me in tears of laughter!
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Oh my gosh!! This one loves you somthin fierce!!! :o)
This is why I am glad,I am the the DH here,I do not even have a Wally Weed Whacker!
Oh My Kell, I just saw this...
I didn't know my hubby was there working in your yard! LOL
It looks beautiful though so wonderful it survived!
Gotta love it! She is a beauty!!