I have to go out to the solarium just before I go to bed every night (when I can remember), armed with my flashlight, to check for slugs. The darn things are chewing big holes in a few of my brugs. It's interesting that only a few are being chewed. I guess some taste better than others. Here's what I caught last night.
Speaking of brugs....LOL (good lead in eh?)...I've got another one blooming now. This one is Janet Reno. This is a few days ago. The blooms start out quite yellow.
Another picture taken a few days later. It's a bit darker.
And this is one I took last night when I was slug hunting.
Meanwhile, Kyle's Pink keeps blooming away.
Here's both blooming with Kyle's Pink in the background.
Here's a picture of my jungle. It's getting difficult to get through there. LOL
Sandy
Totally amazing Sandy. I'll have to go visit Dill Pickles regularly to get my brug fix. She has a lovely in house conservatory. Wonder if she will change things around next winter to accommodate all her brugs. Do you keep them in their pots all year round like Linda does? DG has really got me excited about so many other plants. Never thought I would crave things besides iris and lilium.
Rain today in Winnipeg with croci is bloom, iris greening up nicely.
Inanda - who LOVES all your pix.
Your JR Brug blossoms are lovely, Sandy. All your plants look so healthy. Thanks for sharing. You seem to have a hand up on those disgusting slugs. I am picturing you now... Sandy...skulking around in the dark with her flashlight! Who you gonna call? Slugbusters!
Oh Sandy *Ü*.......I can hardly wait to see your babies bloom for me!
LOL That's funny Donna. When I checked last night there weren't any so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I got them all.
This is the first year I've grown brugs Ginny but I intend to keep them in pots. I was just talking to Jeanne last night about how to keep the pots from blowing over when I have them out on the patio this summer. With those big leaves they might just take off. I thought you got those two brug cuttings from me at the RU so you have your own to get your fix from....once they get blooming of course.
Sandy
Sandy,
Am going to give your two cuttings to Wilma. I travel too much in the summer. She stays home and gardens. After lily bloom season -- I'm gone. Lots of mulch keeps the water in and weeds away.
Wilma will give them the TLC that they need.
Really sorry that we didn't get out of Victoria (except Lynne & Anne to Sooke). Next time we all end up on the island -with a hotel as our base Linda - !!!!
When living in Victoria neighbours and passerbys on the street used to think I was crazy, outside in the dark with a flashlight, slug hunting. I used to turn over boards on edge of the garden in the mornings, often slugs under them, plus half melon rinds.
The cuttings are laid in a pot of fairly sandy material, barely covered with the soil. How damp do I keep them though?
This answer for Wilma to read, of course.
Inanda
That's fine Ginny...it doesn't matter to me. Actually, I think one is a seedling and the other is a cutting. Is it the brugs that you're talking about regarding having them laid in a pot? If so, it would be better if you have them standing up because they'll grow all crooked. I find that they grow really fast and need frequent watering otherwise they droop. How long do you have to keep them before she gets them?
Wilma & Gerry came over tonight and picked up the brugs -- and also put my pix into the computer. Now I just have to try to remember how to resize them to add to the thread.
So, are you saying that the brug cuttings should be planted upright? I was just going by how Glenda started hers. LMK ASAP.
Inanda
I plant mine upright.
Me too.
Ginny both of the ones I gave you already had roots at one end so they need to be planted with the roots down. It's only short, fresh, log cuttings with no roots that you can start lying down. I've never done them that way so I don't know how successful that method is.
Thanks muchly Sandy. Think I had better start reading the brug forum. Help. help. Never in all my days thought I would get interested in another type of flower. Now to think where to keep them during the winter. Here the whole of a house is warm, far warmer than Lindas greenhouse. Ah me. Will check with Echoes to see where she keeps hers.
Here rain has gone, sunny, hope the mud will dry up. Great joy, my lewisia survived and is looking good. So.... wish I had bought some other ones while in BC.
Inanda
Thanks for the brug cuttings, Sandy
I did plant them up last night when I got home.. from Ginny's house, too tired to sleep, so had to keep busy,,
Planted then up, not laying down,
now just to watch them grow,, and have Ginny come visit her plants,,,as I am just the plant sitter...
but good to know that you can plant the logs laying down, if they don'thave roots, never hear of that before, but always something to learn,,.
happy gardening to all..
nice and sunny here this morning..
I always plant mine on end. I tried the log cutting method a couple of times with 100% failure. Glenda did such a good job with her log cuttings, I know it can be done, just not by me.....
You're welcome Wilma and Ginny. That's the beauty of it....you get to plantsit them Wilma, then if Ginny visits and decides she wants some, you can take cuttings and then both of you have them. I hope you have great success. I'm really enjoying my blooms.
Sandy, mine is beginning to look that way....can't get through in some places...........waiting to take them outside...we have some sunny days..that is, if one has his back to warm sun and then, right after, chilly days! This is definitely a weird spring....................E.
You are right Elaine. The overnight lows are still to darn chilly for this time of year in the Interior. Need a new weather pattern, I think.
we had frost this morning ;(
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How bad? :'(
not bad, just enough to frost the windsheilds and roofs, but not enough to curl leafs. My brug tree that was so infested with aphids I left it outside after I sprayed each and every leaf, looks OK.
It was sunny this morning, but it's clouding over now and suposed to rain for the w/e.
FROST ?? Where was I ? Was it very early and were you up with Kayla ?
Heather
Ahh, you guys just sleep in, that's all. We know!!!! LOL
Don't listen to Jeanne you guys. She lives in a little tropical Bermuda Triangle thing up on the hill there by the water or something. LOL Or maybe you're right Donna....she just sleeps in and misses it. *Ü* We had frost this morning and a couple of mornings ago. Everytime it's clear overnight actually. Like Linda's it isn't bad enough to do much damage but certainly means it's too soon to try to put out anything that's tender yet.
Yes Sandy, it's these little bits of frost that are keeping me emptying out the deck. I'm ready to get everything out, but realise it's just not time.
Heather, yes I was up, with Kayla at 5:30, but also to take my folks to the airport, for another cruise.... I wanne be like them when I grow up. They celebrated 52 years of marriage yesterday. I kow at some times, it really took a lot of owkr, but can see that the work was worth it.
Congrats to your folks, Linda. What a wonderful milestone...and what a way to celebrate!
I am sitting looking out of my office window at the rain - a cruise looks pretty good right now !
