I'm having some rotten luck growing brugs this season. Pictured is Kyle's Pink. For two days we had rain and cloudy weather and it looked beautiful. Today the rain left and the sun and a light wind came. The results you can see for yourself. This has happened all spring with just about every single brug. I can't understand why this is happening. I've never had this problem before. Makes me want to not winter them over.
Here is Rosamond.. Looking melted. Both plants are in part shade and I never let them dry out.
Mine melt like that when we have wind, especially if the temps are high.
yes the same problem on this end. winds constantly blowin in my area. all my brugs are heavily ladden with buds, but the blooms only lasted overnight. so sad!
no rain in this part, only hot summery weather with lots of dry winds. can win for losing.
Rosamond is still pretty. We have 89 degrees/sun today, some of my plants are looking cooked in their pots. No rain, we really need some here.
Hoping you get some good weather Kristi.
We've had oodles of rain but when the sun comes out, mine looks like yours Datdog so you're not alone.
We had rain every single day last month and we have had rain 3 out of 6 days in July, it just finished pouring. I had a brug that did just what yours did datdog and several that have bloomed only one day. Plus I've lost a world of perennials and annuals. My shady bed stuff looks great, hostas, caladium's, impatiens, ferns, begonias, but the sunny bed stuff is pitiful. Just a very unusual spring and early summer. We generally don't get as much rain the entire month of July, as we did today...I surely hope a drought doesn't follow. Sure is lots of difference in my zone 8a and yours, MaVie.
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Even my "Old Faithful" is doing the same thing. The blooms seem to wilt before they even fully open. It has never done that before. I think it is just too hot.
I guess I have this to look forward to yet. There are only three blooms in my yard. LOL! Brug blooms, that is. Hope everything straightens up so everyone can have blooms like Kell is having.
Here is it like at MaVies', it was 102 earlier today, now the temps dropped a little and a few clouds but no rain since Feb here. Dry, hot and hotter.. and melted brugs too. We have had some June Gloom in the mornings but the heat hits hard in the afternoons. The gloom is the only thing saving the plants right now. Whatever has started to germinate gets back to dormancy when the weather drops everyday. Good Luck to everyone.. Gourd
mini and Gourd, that's the weird thing here, so far it hasn't been (((HOT))), just in the low 90-ties. some humidity, but none of the miserable stuff, actually pleasant temps, with mosquitoes the size of Blue Jays and, the continual r-a-i-n.
Kristi, I find that it is very hard on the brugs after raining and then to have the sun come out. It seems like it just steams them. The heat here is very hard on mine. We all have to work very hard to grow these in our different climates. Kell probably has the most ideal climate closest to the climate where they originated from. I know that they do so good for me in the fall and spring when the temperature is so much cooler during the day and night.
Sherry, we have mosquitoes that size and bigger. LOL All this rain has really brought them out.
Sigh... yes, that can happen in the summer. I've found the blooms last longer in the fall when the weather is cooler (especially the nights) and it doesn't rain as often.
I bet that is so frustrating! I bet Frannie is right, the hot sun or drying wind steams them if they are wet.
You're right, Kell. It is very frustrating.
I've found that the suaveolens and insignis hold up better in the wind and heat down here than the candidas and aurea hybrids do. The versicolors take a beating, but because they hang down and are closer to the inside of the plant, they seem more protected and last a bit longer. Anyone else noticed a difference in one type holding up better than another?
