Windblown brugs

Here is some pink brugs before the wind got too bad. That's Bleu's head in the front corner.

Just lovely, wish our weather was like yours now(without the wind tho').

Here are some yellow ones, CG in front, JN is second.

that looks great, looking out my window right now it is snowing

Now here is a few minutes later. See the poor blooms, they are blown all over the yard now. The wind is still blowing. The temps are in the upper 60's and falling. Brrrrrrrr........gonna have to get out the sweaters!

I think you can see in this pic how the wind is blowing poor Ga Peach around. Poor thing has no leaves and now the flowers are gone too.

They all look better than mine. LOL! It's too bad you have all the winds, not only for the brugs, but your other plants too. It really looks good though, even if the wind is getting to it all.

Susie, even with the wind blowing, your yard is gorgeous! We have lots of wind here too, and it does blow the brug leaves and blooms right off. I have to spend hours picking up all the fallen leaves and flowers.

What do you have planted in your strawberry pots? I have two of them that are just lying empty and haven't figured out what to do with them.

Clare, those are Bill's. He had hens and chicks in the sides and ast. cacti in the tops. The cacti are doing great, but some kind of worm ate most of the hens and chicks. I have echeverias in another pot and they are doing pretty good.
Edited to add: I'm in the process of planting windbreak plants, but it will be a while before they are big enough to do much good. I've moved several of the brugs to more sheltered areas, but when they grow taller than the windbreaks, it doesn't do much good! I have a Rosemond that was loaded with buds and now they are all gone, but Rothkirch is in a very sheltered area and didn't look a bloom.

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Susie, I know exactly what you mean. Many of mine have gotten to be huge trees, and there is nothing that can be a windbreak for them. They are a windbreak for the next thing! I'm sorry about your Rosemond, but that is good that your Rothkirch is protected.

This is a shot of part of my front yard, taken last September and shows my two largest brugs. I have since pulled out that Butterfly Bush that is crowding Pink Beauty in the picture. There isn't anything that will work as a wind break for these two.

Wow, they are gorgeous even if they are windblown!

Gosh, those are some nice brugs, Clare. Great pictures you guys.

Thanks, Susie! That picture is pre-fierce wind blowing. They look pretty bare post-wind blowing! Charles Grimaldi is practically bare now, and so I cut it back and am waiting for new growth on that one.

You guys are warmer than us in winter, so it should grow back fast. Do yours bloom more fall to spring than in the summer? Does your wind lessen in the summer?

I agree it looks beautiful! I bet the wind drives you nuts... I know when we get a strong wind in the summer my brugs go to heck if they are in bloom.

Susie, everything looks so pretty in spite of the winds. I can tell it is a beautiful day. I saw the nanas that look like shredded ribbons. We are cooler today and tomorrow night it is suppose to get real cold.

Clare, your yard looks very pretty.

Susie -- your yard is gorgeous! Its come so far since you moved in! And so is yours Clare! I want your PB!!! She's just fabulous!!!

Beautiful pic Clare. Brugs are lovely.

Susie, your garden is very pretty and the brugs look great despite the wind.

Susie, your yard looks like a tropicl paradise.

Beautiful Brugs, Clare.

Thanks, everyone, for the wonderful complements!

Susie, we just had 25-30 mile per hour winds just a few weeks ago. I think those winds came from the gulf of Alaska, and they were very cold. We get them in the summer too, but they are usually Santa Ana's then. I think I get the most blooms in the spring and summer, but I do get some nice flushes in the fall. They slow down in the winter though, and my Ecuador Pink will even have some leaf drop and dieback when the temperatures dip into the 30's.

Right now, whiskers is putting on a show:

Thanks, Gretchen. PB is my pride and joy. She looks terrible now, but this is how she looked this past September:

Susie and Clare .. they look great to me. I will not show mine, although when I went downstairs tonight to water I did have a bloom on Golden Lady.

At least you don't have hail, Suz! A couple springs ago, right after I got all my Brugs and Hoyas moved outside and placed in their summer homes, a MONSTER hail storm hit with baseball size balls. The brugs all looked like a giant snail and all his friends had a party on the leaves and all my other plants were beat up too. As I remember Suz, you were in your greenhouse when that storm hit. What a mess. Plus, I am looking out the window watching it snow right now. SO, is that wind REALLY that bad???? (The temps will not be getting over 30 this week.) The sweaters are already out and I have got to dig out the winter coats!!!

Clare, I have been in California when they have Santa Ana winds. I didn't like those at all, it was so hot and people were in a bad mood everywhere. I remember once we were in Long Beach(I think that's where we were, there was a park there) and the wind was cold and damp(and hard to walk because the winds were terrible).
Mel, I remember that storm! Your yard looked like a giant weedeater had been thru it.
We had 48*F this morning, 10 degrees below normal and the wind is 26mph from the NW(that's a cold wind, it usually comes from the SE and is warm). My toes got cold when I went outside this morning. It's about 51 and gusty winds here in San Benito(where I work). It's supposed to be 40* in the morning! My poor bananas and brugs are gonna get cold! I hope this is not a sign of a bad winter, this is way below normal for this time of year. Those are Jan/Feb temps!

It's ten degrees and sunny here right now. It's supposed to warm up some for the rest of the week though.

Thank you all so much for the beautiful Pictures!
I'ts cold here and no sunshine so those pics were a great warm up even if it is windy -Simply awesome
Barb

Here are the pink ones, they are still pretty despite the wind.

Awe, Susie, that is just beautiful. We're having a warm spell right now so I won't look a gift horse in the mouth (stupid expression, but you know what I mean)! I don't think it got below 50 last night, and my greenhouse is heating up to 105 before I open it up in the morning.

Wow, you must be having a nice sunny day!

Clare, so pretty! And your PB is much darker than mine.

Gee Susie now that I see what the wind did to them, I am sure crying big tears for you.....NOT!! LOL

Here is my Pure Love. A sight to behold. What a difference a zone makes.

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Thanks, Kell! Oh, poor Pure Love (great name). Well, at least you still have your seedpod! We had warm Santa Ana's today up to 30 miles per hour. Pink Beauty is still holding up.

Whew! Susie,looks like they like the south,between you and Clare,I see it is not just compost,it is climate,climate,climate,they sure look happy.

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Well, my brugs are bare now! We are having winds right now from 33 to 41 miles per hours, and there is an urgent warning for this area and Los Angeles County:

This message was edited Feb 29, 2008 6:29 PM

clare & calilily...both of you have such beautiful gardens and brugs. A question for calilily...how far apart do you have your brugs planted along the fence? You have given me an idea of how I can plant mine!
Clare...Some winds...don't think we are expecting any up north.

Margie, I guess it is just us getting a beating. All my brugs are now bare!

I realize that you didn't ask me and Cala knows more than I do, but I just put five big brugs in the ground all in a row. They were getting too large for their containers, and I had them in the biggest containers that I had available. I pulled up six artichoke plants and put in five brugs, and I spaced them about three feet apart. That may be too close, but I don't mind if their roots are crowded a bit because it wouldn't be bad if they were somewhat stunted, given the area that they are growing in. I hope that they stay somewhat compact and will prune them to be so; otherwise, the area might get a little crowded.

This is what they looked like after they were first planted. Sorry that the picture isn't great, but you can get the idea.

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I do about like Clare, mine are close too, they grow together and cover up the fence. Doesn't seem to hurt them, they bloom a lot. I had coleus and elephant ears under them, but that didn't work. The brugs shaded them too much so I moved the ears and coleus to some pots. In another bed, I cut the lower limbs off the brugs and the stuff planted under them is doing fine, but those pink brugs were just too pretty to cut.

Thanks Clare for your answer and photo...if I plant every 3' or so in the spring...I will beable to fit in more brugs than I thought ! Yippee....how small can they be when they first get planted in the ground? Could they be say shorter than 3' or so? I have to really get thinking this winter...and get out there and dig some holes for my brugs to plant come spring!
These in the little GH would be the ones that I would plant first...

Thank you calalily also...good, I am glad that it would be OK to plant them close together....I can fit more that way!!!

I've put them in the ground when they were 6 inches tall, but be very careful and don't let them get too dry. I also lost a couple to a big footed puppy who doesn't watch where he steps! I think my next ones I'm going to wait till they are a foot tall to put in the ground.