It looks like the Maya that's been talked about so much lately. The guy that rooted the cuttings said the blossoms are peach. Is that consistent with the Maya?
Anyhoo - I thought it was a steal - and I didn't even have to pay a shipping fee!
He'd been trying to pollinate it with the same type of brug and wondered why he wasn't getting any seeds. I told him he needed pollen from a completely different kind of brug. I told him I'd share some pollen with him when I mine bloom.
I bought a varigated brug today for $1.99 :-)
So where'd you find this guy? Garage sale, swap meet, hanging around outside a gas station with a box of cuttings in coke bottles and some woebegone hand painted sign around his neck?
I'd say you got the steal of the day! Hmmm, steal? That guy at the gas station- he wasn't wearing dark shades and had a white cane and 1.99 was the change from the 2 dollar bil you put in his cigar box?
lol! You're a hoot! I found him at this store called NW Seed & Pet. I went there to buy some more potting soil, and when I was looking around, found this room there I never knew existed - full of tropicals, etc..... It's like it was FATE for me to have this brug, as I'd never seen this room before and "voila" there they were! Someone slap me and wake me up! This must be one of my many brugsmansia dreams.........
you are a lucky duck, good for you....
You got a real good deal Karrie. Good for you.
Man...keep sniffing those Brugs!!!! You were hallucinating Karrie (was it the Mountain Magic again?) - out of your gourd and you actually paid 190.00 for it....I was there, I saw you....
;~)
oh wished i lived in washington.. wow lucky you.. good growing....
Karrie, you must have been to the one on Sprague. We went to the one out on Division and they had the most gorgeous Maya tree but had sold all of their smaller plants. And the clerk didn't know if the tree was for sale.
I did not expect to see any brugs in the stores around here. And THEN we went to the nursery out on Bigelow Gulch and Argonne and just kind of asked the lady there about them and she said that she has about a dozen and gets them from a nursery called Hangman Valley Nursery about 2 miles off of I 90 going toward Seattle.
My daughter is leaving for Seattle tomorrow and is going to go by and see what it is. You can get a map off of Yahoo.
Will let you know. Jeanette
Karrie, What a great way to find a Variegated Brug!
This reminded me how lucky one can be when not even looking for some. I was looking for any V. Brug about 3 years ago. I JUST had to have one!!!!! I about gave up when I was at our Saturday Open Market and Low and Behold outta the corner of my eye about 50 feet from me I spotted one. Well let's just say the crowd parted when this 6'3" 220 lbs. bearded man darted to it...LOL
The woman selling the Brug asked if I knew what it was and of course I did and asked for the price. It was about 2' tall and in excellent shape she only wanted $6.00 for it. So I gladly handed her the money. She said she had two more and if I really wanted them I could have all three for $15.00 well of course before she could say anything more I handed her the money!!!!! :-)
She ended up telling me she will never start any of those again because she had whitefly and believed they were the culprit because they were just loved by the aphids and whitefly. How lucky for me.... I kept one, one to a fellow brug addict and one taken to my place of work.
Good Luck With Your New Addition
Jeanette - I know where Hangman Valley Nursery is. Neat place.
Garden Guy Kin (what is your real name?) that is a cute story - you lucked out too!
I just took some pics of my new little baby. I will stand TALL against aphids and flies now oh, yes and spider mites as well - this newbie isn't a newbie anymore after this last year...... (please God....)
Here's a shot of it up with it's new big, but brothers and sisters on the table (I had to bring them in today before the wind hit big time). And the next one will be of a closer shot, so maybe someone can identify it for me - whether it is a Maya or not. As I specified earlier, the man that sold it to me said it had peach colored blooms.
And here is a closer shot.
Not born but raised Walla Wallan here buddy! :-) moved here to Spokane in 1985. How very close to home! We travel through Hermiston (or near) when we go to Bend - about once every 3 years for a conference.
So Peaches and Cream is a variegated? I'd not looked it up. But peach blooms, so that makes sense. WOW - very cool! What do the blooms from Maya look like? I'll post pics later in the season when the blooms happen. I think the guy who sold them would like to know what he has as well. He just had the labels as "variegated brugmansia" and I knew it was something I had to have. I haven't seen too many of these types.
Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!beautiful...only for 1.99$?????????// wonderful.
Kaleem
:-) yeppers! I was a lucky duck today. I am looking forward to doing some crosses with this, and sharing some pollen with the guy that did the cuttings. I could tell he was new to Brugs, and his eyes went kind of wide when I told him why his try at pollinating didn't work with using the same one - I myself did not know this until I joined this website - didn't make any sense to me really - would have thought they'd have all died out a long time ago, before we got ahold of them, nature wise.
Finding information about Brugmansias, how to grow them and how to pollinate them (especially) is not found in most garden books. In fact, most garden books do not even list them as plants. They are a new thing here in the USA and I was fortunate to find Dave's early in the game and learn all of this information. Hug dear to it. It's good info.
That's a really nice looking cutting Karrie. I like the pattern on the leafs. The only Maya I have are the cuttings for the field test and they are just starting some foliage growth. The pics I've seen have always been concentrated on the blooms for Maya so I'm not sure how different she is compared to the others.
My suaveolens variegata only had a white edge to the leafs and they aren't real big.
The Peaches and Cream variegated - Now she's got bigggg bold leafs with the blocky patterned variegation like in your picture. I hear she isn't a good bloomer but I love her foliage !!!
OK Karrie GO BACK, and any Brugs you find for that price I will give you $3 for, see you already doubled your money, just let me know when you ship them OK.
Doris
Tell ya what Blaine - for $2.00 I can afford to get rid of her if she doesn't bloom well. We'll see how she does. Doris - If this ends up a good one, I'll just give you a cutting.
Good buy Karrie. I think it looks like Maya because of the width of the leaves and the nice green that the new leaf is showing. Just a guess until it gets bigger. Whatever it is, you got a good deal. I hope it is Maya since P&C is so slow growing for most people.
Karrie, I've been waiting for an excuse to go back home. I grew up in Omak, and Tonasket. Now I have to go to that nursery and see what I can find.... LOL Good fine with the burg!
Viv
Karrie thanks that sounds like a good deal to me. :)
Vizz8, WOW, coincindents, I was born in Oroville, and have lived in Wash. all my long life. My sister lives in Omak. My youngest son lives with his family in Sumner and his wife Barb is an attorney in Tacoma. . when did you live in Tonasket and Omak., and are any of your family still in this area. DonnaS
Thanks for the tip Karrie. I stopped on my way out of town this morning and bought two of them. They still had a few. I also bought a couple of starts of that neat verigated (sp) hibiscus that they had and a bouganvillia start and some strange little verigated thing I'm going to have to post on the ID forum to find out what it is. I haven't been in there in years. What a nice morning.
Robinz
DonnaS
All my family are passed except a sis that lives here in Parkland. I lived in Tonasket in the 70's, we owned a buisness there, the old noots cafe, after it was noots, lived in Omak most of my life, 50's and 60's, have lived in Tacoma sinse 84 and love it, the climate is wonderful, but I truly miss the winter season, all the snow, and ice skating on Blue Lake. We lived in the mountains toword Havilla, near Fanchers Dam. LOL we were concidered Hippies.
Viv
Wow Karrie! You got a great deal. I saw some sorry little sticks at one of the most expensive nurseries around. They were asking $20 for pinkie finger sized sticks with a few leaves, not even on the top mind you. They were labelled as the famous pink, white and yellow. LOL Every tag did say FRAGRANT and BRUGMANSIA, etc.
I guess all of you Midwesterners and Southerners must know that Northwesterners do not stray far. LOL
Btw, my daughter bought 2 of those cuttings today on her way to Seattle. One for me.
Jeanette
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRGGHH.. FIrst time I wished I lived there..lol.. Congrats guys,,!
:-) Glad other people were able to take advantage of this deal!
Question: Do both Peaches & Cream and Maya have fuzz on their leaves? Mine are fuzzy - wondering if this will help with identification. (please oh please be a Maya!)
yup, fuzzy wuzzy was a brug(bear) .......... lol
Hi, I'm new to this thread and fairly new to DG. I'm going to a plant Round Up this weekend and hope to come home with my first Brug. Also hoping to keep it alive. Problem is I live in the Texas hillcountry. The water is very hard and alkaline. I garden organically because it's so much easier. Mostly what I have is antique roses, irises and herbs and veges. I'm wondering what I need to do for this Brug. Can I do this organically?
I do !
If you use potting soil and keep your Brug in a pot, you should do fine. As for the rest of your garden, save your used coffee grounds (if you drink coffee, that is) and add that to your soil. Helps create acidity. People use coffee grounds on Rhododendrums and Azaleas that require higher acid. I am just starting in on Gardenias and hear they are acid lovers as well.
Karrie, thanks for the info. I don't drink coffee anymore, but I know lots of people who do. Does it matter if the coffee is not organic? There is something called Teeccino that I drink sometimes. It's not coffee, but you make it the same way. The ingredients are roasted carob barley, chicory root, figs, almonds, dates and natural hazelnut flavor. Any ideas on what that would do to the acidity?
I have no idea - I have hard of people substituting coffee with chicory, for drinking - but whether it has acid in it like coffee does, I don't know - I doubt it though.
You can use Peat Moss in the soil to bring up acidity. I think (but am not positive) that mulching with pine needles can help as well - but I could have that one backwards so I'd check on it first.
Thanks, Karrie. The Gardenville place that Kaufmann talked about sells bags of rose dirt made with dirt from a little place called Poteet in Tx. The dirt is very acid there for some reason. The potting soil is very good, but expensive and I don't know how long it stays acid. That is how long before the acidity leaches out. Or if it does. The acidity in peat moss leaches out too. Howard Garrett, a Dallas organic guru on the radio, recommends putting apple cider vinegar in hard water for houseplants. I tried that once and they didn't seem to appreciate it. Maybe I used too much. I guess I need to start finding people who grow pine trees around here. That's going to be a very limited group.LOL Mary Lee
Mary Lee -- I use Green Light soil acidifier. My soil (like yours, I imagine) is very alkaline. Also, the GardenVille products and soils are very good. I've been buying from them for several years, and all the soil in my (slightly) raised beds is theirs. Here's the green light:
PS -- Karrie -- congrats on your great find!
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Kaufmann, have you tried vinegar in the water to acidify the soil? I don't know anything about Greenlight. Is it organic? Malcom Beck seemed to think that 1tsp vinegar per gallon water would be good to use on my Sunshine blueberry bush.
As long as it doesn't "pickle" the roots!
Vinegar is used to kill weeds - so I'd use caution and a very high dilution rate.
Yes, it's the vinegar you buy at the grocery store. The vinegar that kills weeds is 20% strength.