This is the backyard with the Greenhouses.
Pictures of my backyard
The walkway between the Greenhouses
Drool! It must smell like Heaven at night!
Beautiful Monika.
Wow they look great, which one is the pink blooming right up front love that shape. I bet you are right Root, I bet the smell at night is just awesome.
It is Esmeraldas. Esmeraldas is a natural B. x candida-hybrid out of the province of Esmeraldas in Ecuador.
Thats not the galos is it?
I can't spell worth a dang
Everything in your yard looks just great Monika!
Looks like a tropical paradise!!
Esmeraldas was the first brug that I absolutely HAD to have. My heart skipped a beat whenever I saw a pic of it. I still don't have it but I sure love to see it.
Even your hidden areas look wonderful Monika.
Monika, your backyard is so beautiful! I am envious. How do you find the time and energy to move all those huge plants from the greenhouse and back again every year?
Looks wonderful Monika. One day I'd like to grow up to be just like you.
Monika, what size are those pots the brugs are growing in....I have some in 7 gallon pots but I am sure I will need to get larger ones for some of mine. Luckily I found a local greenhouse that I can trade brugs for as many pots as I need. I am just not sure how big to go.
LOL Trace, my eye went right to that pink also. So very nice.
Thank you all for your nice comments.
Tom, I use the pot-in-pot method for many years. After the cutback in the fall and digging them out, there is not much left but a woody skeleton. I admit, it is heavy.
Earthling, I use 90l (appr. 25 gallons) container. The plant itself is potted into a 5 gallon pot. The pot has holes on the side and the bottom that the roots can grow into the soil of the larger pot.
All of your pics look like a beautiful haven in paradise Monika! Esmeraldas is a beauty!
It is so beautiful there Monika. Someday when my yard grows up I hope it looks like that.
Thanks for the reply. So them when you get ready to winter it, you pull it out of the larger pot and store it in the smaller pot..?
I know you had mentioned once that is what you do, but I thought that was for the ones you have in the ground.
Does this mean that every spring you have to use fresh soil to re-plant the brugs into the larger pots?
Earthling, they are planted with the smaller pot in a large pot.
I dont have to use fresh soil in the large pots. The soil I use, is a industrial soil for nurseries. All I do in the spring is removing the old roots out of the large pot, add fresh soil if needed and plant the brug back in it.
YOur plants are gorgeous Monika. I too love Esmereldas. I think it's the most beautiful brug there is.
I LOVE the trees!!!
Okay, I got it, and thanks for the info. Since I have access to the larger pots, I will do your method next year. I know that in this Texas heat, the brugs do overheat and get dry very quick. I imagine this protects the roots from the heat of summer as long as one is keeping the smaller pots in the larger pots.
I do not have a greenhouse to overwinter my brugs, they have to be satisfied on the enclosed patio. My fear is that some will be too large to fit in there this fall. They are strange plants, some love to grow tall, others are satisfied staying shorter and rounder...(kind of like me)
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LOL Earthling! Cuttings taken out of the flowering region generally stay smaller than cuttings of the growing region.
...and so, no matter how old they get, they will ALWAYS be shorter and smaller if taken out of the flowering areas ????
Yes! They will flower earlier than such out of the growing region. There are a few exceptions. I can name only european hybrids like Goldkrone or Marie Gerrits. Cuttings will bloom early, even cuttings out of the growing region.
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*sigh* so much to learn, so little time.
Thanks once again, Monika...
Gosh, earthling, thank goodness you asked that question, I had absolutely no idea, whew. Thanks, Monika for clearing that up.