Here is a photo of a Peaches N Cream brug that I started from a cutting sent to me last fall by a DG member. I had a little trouble get it rooted, but once it started, I think it has done well inside over the winter. I had never heard of Brugs before joining DG, but sure am impressed with the photos I have seen. Hopefully this one will bloom for me this summer. I can understand how this could become an addiction!
Susan
This message was edited Apr 17, 2005 9:31 AM
Looks great, Susan.
Great job Susan! I just started last Nov as well and the P&C was one of first I ordered. It is stockier with better leaves and branching that any of the others I have. Really love this plant and hope it blooms.
Keep us posted. :)
blaine
Looks very healthy and happy Susan...you are doing a great job! And I am sure you will be rewarded with beautiful blooms!
Margie
You've got a nice full healthy plant Susan.
Good job keeping it over the winter.
Looks great Susan.
Just a word of advise with the P&C. It's best not to keep it outside until your weather remains above at least mid 50's. I placed mine out much to early last year and set it back some. Lost leaves and stoped new growth for several weeks. Just my experience I had here in my climate.
Wow! Looks great! LOL I wish mine looked like that after over-wintering it inside! Congratulations!
Susan, if you start having Brugmansia dreams, you know you are hooked, line and sinker.
I have some very funny Brug dreams. Then some, more realistic. Last night I dreamed that I pollinated my Whiskers with my Isabella X unknown. Then the dream went the speed of light and there were pods. Silly me - I don't have any blooms as of yet!
Your plant is very healthy and pretty Susan!!! Whatever you are doing, I'd keep right on, it looks super...
I've ordered 4 more from eBay, so I may be having brug dreams by the end of summer. I'm already having daylily and coleus dreams, so I might as well add a few more. Kin, I saw one of your driveway photos and it was beautiful! Mine may have to live in the drive too. My yard is about overflowing. With my brugs, cannas, castor beans and coleus I should have a real Nebraska jungle this year.
susan
I plan on putting about 3 or 4 or 5 of mine along our driveway - they get lotza sun there and are protected, pretty much from the wind. My seedlings, last year, did very well there. I might add some other potted plants as well, to help fill in down below.
Brugs in the driveway works for me too - I just wish mine were as beautiful and healthy as yours Kin, WOW!!! P & C has always been one of my favs and i hope to have one some day...it is an elegant brug and it always stands out...
Hi all,
In the picture above I said that the Brug on the right is my P&C. Long story but I was given this ID by others and thought it was a P&C. I was informed by a member some important details that I missed. So the poor Brug had an identity crisis over the past couple years and now will be called by it's true name. "Maya"
Thank you So much for pointing this out to me.
Maybe some day I'll be able to identify brugs too. So far, my batting average is zero. I'm like you Kin, if someone says it's a particular brug, I accept it as the gospel. But, I am a smidgen better than when I started. I also agree that they should be correctly identified, if at all possible. With mine, I have to depend on this forum because I'm maybe the only person in Arky, with exception of katny_ann, that has named brugs. I'm sure we aren't the only two brug addicts, but I just haven't run into a single person that knows what a named brug is, even at the nurseries...and I make all the rounds in my area, which includes four states...
Thanks for sharing Sherry.
I think of the times when I was just so happy to have an Angel Trumpet plant. Not many were sold here in Oregon or the Garden store didn't even know what they did let alone know their Names. (just something to sell) I then went on to be ~OH~ so happy to get a couple of blooms one summer. I then went on to being happy for successfully keeping a few alive over the winter. I then went on to learn they are Called Brugmansia and then of course Brugs. LOL
I guess the important thing to remember is that there is always much to learn, share and experience with our Brugs. What an excellent place we have here to do so.
I'm on the very same page, Kin!! And, sometimes, the further I go, the less, I find out, I know, whew!! Since we are 'identifying', where is a good online source of caterpillar IDs?? I have a small one, dark on top of it's body, with light green or white specks down the back, a round head and fuzzy around it's feet in a grayish color. They just hatched. Wonder if they are good or bad, tho I believe I know that answer...
This might help. Those Caterpillars can do good damage.
http://bugguide.net/node/view/57
Thank yew, Kin!!
Here's an update on my first Brug. I made the mistake of putting it out a little too early. Should have listened to you KIn! Think it got down to about 38 one night after I put it out. Then there was some hail, then wind damage, then a few 90 plus days followed by some really cool ones again. Poor thing lost most of the leaves that were on when the first photo was taken. I told it "Get tough! You live in Nebraska. This is what life is like here!" It seems to have listened and is doing OK. Or at least it looks OK to me. Does have a few bug or slug holes. Has a lot of new leaves and is growing some. Moved it into a pot with a 16" diameter. Not sure how many gallons that is. Much bigger than the pot in the first photo. Will keep you updated on progress or lack of. Here's before and after being outside.
Susan
What're you talking about? It looks great!!
You should have seen it before I took off all the damaged leaves!
Susan
Why, Susan, it looks absolutely wonderful, so healthy, congrats!!! I just love the variegated brugs, I wonder if yours will thrive in my area, southeast Arky?? I'm very much in love with Maya, so I do have one variegated that's doing nicely too...
They are looking great Susan! I just love love love varigated ones :-)
Hugs
Julie
Hey, Kin, that is one of the Charles Grimaldi ones you sent me right behind the P&C on the far right. It is doing just fine and so are the other ones. Thanks again!
Susan
Doesn't it just kill you to have to take off damaged leaves? My Super Nova was looking real hideous and it got a major hair-cut. The new leaves are appearing and are looking ok. The wind can really damage them.
Beautiful! Such healthy looking foliage!! Great job!!!
Susan, Your doing a great job. They are looking great and with the weather you kinda expect to have some damage and such going on. Glad to hear your having fun and I also wish the weather would get a hold on itself...LOL
Hope they all continue to grow well for you and you can share some photo's when they are in bloom.
Last week we had record High's and now I think we are having record lows. The poor brugs don't know what to do. The pests sure do! So far the slugs and earwigs have been doing their fair share of leaf damage.
I have cut off the lower damaged leaves then place them on the ground around the potted cuttings. I went out later in the night and found them munching on the leaves and gave them a leathal dose of ammonia spray. Good riddins to them. Those big slugs need a double dose of spray!
Susan, you did a great job growing it indoors. It looks very healthy and happy.
Way to go Susan! You won't be able to see any soil by the end of the season in that bed.
Here is an update on my first brugs. Peaches N' Creme has pods and is about 28" tall. Seems to have lost more leaves than my others, but looking good to me.
This is a CG that GardenGuyKin sent me and he noticed that it had pods in a photo before I saw them. About 3'. Another CG that I planted in the ground is only about half as tall and no pods yet.
Here is the potted CG again and a couple un-named ones from an eBay seller. The peach one on the right has pods.
Here is Dr Suess on the left, also from Kin and an un-named pink on the right. No pods on these yet, but I think both have Y'ed. Can't wait until I have some blooms!
Looks great. Congrats!!!
kin what is that HUGE purple flower over the brug?
They are looking Great! Thanks for the follow up. I knew I saw some buds in that photo...LOL You should be enjoying some good smelling blooms before long. THE WAITING GAME BEGINS!! I'm like a little kid when I'm waiting for the first blooms of the year.
Keep up the great growing of your brugs.
Annac, that is a wind sock. It's a fuchsia bloom with a hummingbird hanging from it. It's gone this year. It rotted!!
