All you BrugMavens out there...what brugs can I plant that will be smaller than most? I notice in some catalogues they mention, "does not grow tall", or "short"...any such thing? Or are they just talking about "slow" growers that seem to take forever to get larger?
I have some areas I want to plant brugs in front of...that wouldn't grow more than, say, 4' high. Ok..I know I can cut them off but would rather not...would rather have short full mounds/bushes.
Have already planted some of your Monsters out, Brugie...and they love it!!! Growing very well..."fleshing out". Even HG has gone along with the program and is growing (got the neighbours Rottweiler to bark at it...snapped right to!).
Thanks in advance...
Carol
Anudder question...
Carol, how about some versicolors. They stay shorter for me than anything. US Conn Treasure, Cuba, Ecuador Pink, Versi. Orange, Versi, Peach have all stayed around 4-5 ft. for me.
Oh, kewl...I was just send a Versi Peach and I have the Ecuador Pink..you're right, it does stay shortish.
Thanks
BRUGIE WAAAA. *LOL* then why is my Versie almost 5' tall and hasnt Yd yet
My EP is short, but my Versi was 6 feet (we loved the blossoms), I had another couple of short ones, maybe I'll remember. I meant to draw a map so I wouldn't have to go out and dig up the mini blind markers...
Sherry, EP is a versi. Some versi's do get tall. The Double Peach has always grown tall for me. Did you get a basal cutting Doris? That might tend to get a little taller. I generally have short trunks on my versi's. Don't know why. Could be that actively growing it in the house is causing it to stretch too. I guess it just depends on which one you have plus conditions.
Brugie I bought this rooted cutting on ebay, it is Jamaca Yello X Verie orange, it is in my bedroom heat is constant 70
Brugie, why are some, but not all versi(s) called, Versi Peach, Orange, Cuba, and EP is just EP??
Good question Sherry. Maybe because it was found in the wild and took the name of the place it was found. The others were bred to be versicolors would be my guess, and I believe they are NOT pure. I believe that you would have to find two pure versicolors to breed for pure versicolors. A pure versicolor has one slit in the calyx. Many crosses resemble versicolors because they take on many of the versi genes. Monika would be much better at answering this than I am. The US is still in need of a lot of the pure brugmansia. Especially Versicolor and Aurea.
Doris, yours is a cross of two species, not a versi. I'm not sure what Jam. Yellow is though. I've never had it. Jam. Yellow was crossed with a versi. That makes it a multihybrid.
I hope Monika can come in and explain this better.
Jamaican Yellow is not a pure suaveolens but very close to it.
SherryLikes seedling will be a Multihybrid. I have versicolor Orange but she didnt bloom last year. I hope, she will bloom this year so I can see, if she is a pure versicolor. Her leaves look different from those of Kaskade and Apricot Queen.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but for some reason, I thought Versi Peach was 'small'. Mine had HUGE blossoms and it grew forever, tiny when I received it, late, and was 6feet high and wide. It bloomed off and on several times, but not a big flush...
My VP was about 3-1/2 to 4 ft tall and probably 4-5 ft. wide. The height doesn't include the pot it was in. Give it another year Sherry. The older the plants get, the better they bloom. Just remember to always bring the versi. types in because they don't like the cold weather at all. I don't really know how they would take a freeze. Up here, they would be dead in no time.
WOWIE, Brugie, does that mean that Rosamond and PB might be 12 feet tall this year with blooms the size and length of Tennessee??!! I did not bring in VP or EP, I wanted to see if they would make it, but I did take cuttings. All of the ones outside have two big sacks of cypress/cedar mulch on each plant, and they were already mulched before I added the additional sacks. But, we've had considerable freezing weather, but when the sun does shine, it is hot and heavy on them, so I have all my digits crossed...
You don't really want them that tall, do you? You would have to climb a ladder to keep them clean and to pollinate. LOL! I'm too old and fat for ladders.
Brugie, I will tell you this about PB and Rosamond - they bloomed some in the summer but they bloomed all fall, up until the first hard freeze and every bloom had teeny tiny pods but the freeze got them. I might need the ladder to clean and debug them, but I don't think they will have any trouble being pollinated, can you say hussy? If they were people, I'm afraid that might be what they would be!!! BTW, I don't mind at all that my brugs do their best blooming in the late summer and all fall. It is wonderful because almost every thing else in the gardens is gone by that time - the late blooming brugs are always wonderful but, at that time of the year, they are special!!!
I agree. It just makes me sick when they are getting ready to bloom and the frost hits. So many wasted blooms. Are you going to try to do some pollinating this year? I can do it early in the summer, but by fall the bees are pollinating every single bloom. My Harlot in the garage has pods all over it. Not one of them is my fancy work.
Hahahaha, Harlot is appropriately named, huh?? After not seeing a pod all spring/summer, I was very surprised at seeing them in the fall, and with not nearly as many bees as when the Natchez whites were in full bloom, you have to swat the bees, there are soooo many. Yes, next year I will pollinate and try to do it as early as possible so that hopefully a pod would have time to ripen. I really would like to have seeds of my own!!!
Sherrylike, I think your versis will be fine in the ground the way you have them mulched. I've never lost any from doing this. I'm right on the line between 8a and 8b. Of course I just might end up eating my words. We are supposed to be down to 21 degrees for 10 hours tonight.
Kay