A big Welcome to nightowl2 from Vancouver Island

Hi nightowl2,

From Castlegar, B.C. and welcome to the Canadian contingent of Dave's Garden. We hope you stop in and tell us what you have growing in your garden.

Welcome Nightowl! :D With a name like yours we will be thinking you'll be available for our late night gab sessions! ;)

Welcome Nightowl from Ontario! Happy gardening, well, at least once this darn cold weather leaves us ... lol.
Christine.

Hi Nightowl. Hope you visit the Canadian corner often.

Welcome nightowl to our forum. You will enjoy us, I know. We give 2 hoots!

Wow!! Thanks for the great welcome. It reminds of when I moved up to Bella Coola 20 years ago. I arrived in the evening and when I walked into the Co-op the next day everyone knew who I was. I'll definitely be spending lots of time here...I'm hooked already.

What have I got growing in the garden? Well, I've become obsessed with brugmansias so that's what I'm spending most of my time on these days. I'm new to them though, so I haven't actually grown any yet, but thanks to a very generous friend I have a couple of seeds sprouting, cuttings rooting and plants starting to sprout new leaves after having just been brought into my solarium for the winter. I am so excited. Other than that I have a plot at the community garden for mostly vegetables which I still haven't quite finished putting to bed. We still haven't had a really bad frost but I'm expecting it any day so I'll have to get up there. I'm interested in lots of different kinds of plants like orchids, clematis, cacti and succulents. I really like tropical looking plants. I've just discovered exchanging seeds with other people across Canada and I love it. I can hardly wait until the spring when I can start trying some of my new seeds.

Thanks again for the welcome. I'll still got lots of exploring to do on this site to see what's available.
Sandy

Sandy, a BIG Quebec welcome to you!!! Where on the Island do you live?

Be sure to check out the low-key RoundUp we're planning in Victoria, 1-5 April 2005 - the latest plot twists are at this link.

http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/467718/

Glad to see you in the Canadian forum,
Shannon

Well Sandy, if it's Brugs you want to know about, Dave's Garden is the best place to get info. The Brugmansia and Friends Forum has so many well informed and experienced people to help out and answer any question you have. I know, 'cause I am in exactly the same situation as you are and have tapped into their "know-how" many times. And here at the Canadian Trading Forum, we have our own local experts who are always willing to help. Liz, from North Vancouver is a wonderful resource and has the most gorgeous website, with the most gorgeous Brugs you have ever seen, brugmansiaetc.com. MG99 (Linda) from Victoria is another lady with lots of experience growing wonderful looking Brugs, and Brugcrazy (Jeanne) from Vancouver Island as well, (as the name suggests), is a wealth of information on the subject. There are many others that check into this forum regularly, some of them are listed above and others I am sure will be dropping in to say welcome. So many of these great people can help with any garden subject or problem you might have. So be sure to visit often! :D

welcome from the prairie folk across your border. hope you'll check out the forthcoming roundup

I live in Campbell River. Thanks for the information. I have been spending quite a bit of time reading the posts on the Brugmansia forum. There certainly is a wealth of information there. It's great because I have a lot to learn. I'll have to check out the roundup.
Sandy

Welcome Nightowl2. Campbell river. the BEST salmon. There is a great little eatery there. Senior moment - can't remember the name. What a lovely place to live. Do you live on the water?

Brugs, holy cow, you guys are determined to get me going with them. Was so disasppointed with how Echoes one turned out that decided I didn't need to add any to my nursery. Can't wait to see all the island ones though. What will they be doing in April? Are we going to take a day trip to Nanaimo?

We def. have to get some more prairie subscribers on here.

Ginny with -7 here this AM.

Gee, I think Brugcrazy (Jeanne) is from Campbell River too. I think we need some more subscribers from the interior BC too!

Donna with +1 here this morning.

Welcome nightowl from another member in Ontario....Hope you drop by
often.

Anna

Welcome from the sandstone cliffs and canyons of Utah, Nightowl. Checkout our nightowls thread on Jokes and Chat. Always glad for more input and laughter in the middle of the night. ~Blooms

Welcome Sandy.

Yes Sandy and I know each other. She's been digging up tree size brugs from my garden and giving them a new home. She has a wonderful orchid collection and has been bringing me some beauties. It's great to have another brug enthusiast so close.

hello, there to you, nightowl...love the nomer! Elaine

Thanks again for the great welcome. It's kind of a drizzly, gray day here but at least it's above zero. I live about a block from the ocean. The Rotary club has built a lovely walkway along the ocean. I love to take the dog for a walk along there. Of course he prefers to go along the beach but I only let him choose where we walk one direction.
Hi Jeanne. Yes, she's the one who has given me most of my brugmansias and told me I ought to join Dave's Garden. She's too kind and I don't think I'll ever be able to thank her enough. I just hope the orchids I give her will bloom. I'm trying not to bug her with too many questions. That's why I'm trying to read everything on the Brugmansia forum.
I'm curious Ginny. What happened to Echoes brugmansias? You've got me worried now.
I am a bit of a nightowl all right. However, I'm on call so I have to try to control myself. There's nothing worse that going to bed at 1:00 am and getting called at 6:05 in the morning.
Sandy

Echoes brug was a miserable little stick when it arrived from the supplier and really didn't grow too well. Mind you, we had a horrible summer and no, I won't mention the supplier. We might get flamed again.

Ginny

That's too bad but I would say not to give up. Of course I'm a bit obsessed. I haven't had total success with mine though, so I understand. In the summer somebody at the community garden gave me a seedling they had started. They said it would be red and that it was either a Datura or a Brugmansia. I went home and looked them up on the internet. That was when I discovered Brugmansias and desperately wanted one. The plant in my community garden plot grew to be 5 feet tall but turned out to be a very plain, single white Datura, much to my disappointment.
I kept looking up Brugmansias on the computer, drooling over them. In September I stumbled onto somebody on the GW site who wanted succulents and was willing to trade Brug cuttings for them. I happened to have a stapelia so I signed up on the spot and made the trade. I had never traded anything before so I wasn't sure how to send things. I made what I thought was a pretty thin box. It's amazing how much it could hold though. I guess that should have been my clue that it wasn't that thin and couldn't possibly fit through the mailbox slot. I ended up putting in a couple of pieces of the stapelia plus a few other bits of succulents. I noticed that she also wanted hoyas so I threw in a piece of my hoya as well. When I took it to the post office I was shocked to find that the cheapest I could send it for was over 6 bucks. I figured it was worth it though to get a white, a yellow and a pink brug cutting. Well, my cuttings arrived on Oct. 1st. They took over a week to get here and the pink one was quite emaciated. It started to turn mushy on the bottom so I gradually had to keep cutting the bottom off until it was only about 2 inches long. I tried laying it down in soil but it just turned to mush. However, the other two are doing great. The white one especially. I have since acquired a few more cuttings and have learned a few things. I've also lost a few more but I'm having fun. I must admit it's nicer to have named cuttings because I like to look them up on the internet and see what they'll look like some day. Oh, dear. I'm sorry..I've rambled on. Do try again. Our summer was pretty strange too but you never know what the next summer's going to be like.
Sandy

You appear to be at the same place with your Brugs as I am with mine, Sandy. I wish us both good luck next summer with our babies. :)

Sandy

Welcome to DG's. You are very lucky to have Jeanne in your neighbourhood. She's one of the true brug goddess's as is Liz in Vancouver. Of course there's others, but those 2 are the local guru's. I've been growing brugs now for 2 years, but have learned a lot as I go. It's quite an addiction.

Hopefully you'll be able to join us during our first ever Canadian roundup in April 2005.

Linda in Victoria

Thanks Linda. Yes, I am lucky to have met Jeanne and live nearby. It was nice to be able to see some of her brugs as I hadn't actually seen any blooming except a couple in 2 different nurseries. I hope I'll be able to see some of them next summer when they are in full bloom. Actually, now that I know they stick up above her fence I'll be able to tell when they're blooming. LOL She sure knows a lot about them and has given me lots of good advice.

I didn't realize that the roundup you're having in April is the first one ever. I assumed you'd been doing it every year for a few years.

Sandy

Sandy, I just saw that you're in CR too. It's lovely up there. I have been doing an annual trek up there every May to visit Jeanne, Oscar, Molly and of course Rob. Everytime I've gone up there the weather has been perfect.

And hopefully you'll be coming this May again.

Welcome nightowl2 from another Canadian - but living stateside the past 28 years. I haven't got a brug (yet) but the itch is there. Kinda hoping for a greenhouse in the next year or two... also am working on a trip to BC for the RU and can't wait to meet everyone and drool over flowers! I have a sis and bro in Surrey, plus an aunt and cousin in the Vancouver area too. Sounds like you've been digging right in here at DG. That's GREAT!!

Hello.
NIce to meet you.
I am from the island too!


Yumiko

Hi Yumiko,

How have you been? We have missed hearing from you. Are you coming to the RU in April? Hope so. Would so much like to meet you. :D

Donna

Yes, Yumiko. We were all wondering where you'd disappeared to. Hope all is well with you.

echoes

HI, Donna and echoes!

It is been a while since I came here last. Just been busy.
My children have bad allegy and I was sort of stressed out.

I will come up tp the RU in April.
It is going to be few days? I probably can stay one day though.
I would love to see you all!

Great to hear Yumiko! We are looking forward to meeting you too.