WEEKEND CONTEST

Oh Sue, I hate to say it, but that really is ugly. I'm surprised you took a picture of that one. LOL!

I think more than anything this thread is hilarious as well as comforting when you find out you're not the only one! :-)

Ok, This one is over 7 feet tall. I overwintered it even though the flower was kind of ugly and it had no fragrance. For some reason it kept growing in the dark with barely 1/2 cup water per month...

But even sadder still, this one I paid for (on eBay maybe). It's been a spidermite picnic ever since.

Poor thing!

I am feeling much better now as mine don't look quite this bad yet!!!

eileen - yours (2nd one) is lookin' the worst! ouch!

Actually Shirl - the plant was beautiful... until it bloomed - LOL!

So sorry Poppysue ... to wait all that time for that!!

We went to Manito Garden today - took lotza pics. When we were inside the conservatory I found a ONE Brugmansia amongst all the tropicals. It was a vareigated one, and wasn't labeled. It had peach blooms - but didn't have a scent - but the blooms looked spent/old and it was early afternoon.

Most of the tropicals in there were beautiful. But they don't know how to take care of a Brugmansia. It was very sad looking. Brown dry leaves on it, completely yellow leaves - just not a real healthy plant. Here are a couple of pics - I know they aren't THAT bad, but to me, being in a place like that, they shouldn't have looked like this.

Here is a pic of the bloom - looks so sad.

Hey Eileen, I think I have the twin sister of that one except that I still have a couple of leaves on the top. Pretty ugly. If you want it later this summer, you can then have a matched pair.

Kaufman sorry this is the Advanced Bayer granules, not MG,and you are supposed to sprinkle a teaspoon on the ground mix it in the soil and water, it also gets rid of insects. I only use it on the larger plants

The brugs at our local nurseries and really awful this year. They look like those lilies or poinsettias, that you see in WalMart for Easter or Christmas, just rows and rows of the same plant. I saw about 50, very sad, yellow leafed brugs at the nursery last week, labeled 'p', 'w', 'y' - at least they wrote it out last year, the suppliers apparently hear about brugs being in high demand, but they just don't know anything about the plants. Oh, well.

OK
here's the first shot of my SAD brugs
the story behind this one is......
I rooted a PB cutting......it was small and in a small pot so I put it in a Nana pot so it would be protected
that was last spring
it grew all last summer....in that tiny pot.......,I swore I was gunna repot it last fall ....but ran out of good sized pots.......figured, they go semi dormant in the GH over the winter so it can wait till this spring.......which came and is going........I can't get it out of the nana pot without dumping the nana out,and doing some serious surgery....sad....so sad

notice the tiny reddish pot that huge brug is in

Here is my intensive care unit
these are all still alive....but ya can't tell by looking at them
butterfly is in there
, desiree.......some other good ones.......

OMG...CC....ICU unit is right !!!

Are you sure that is not your morgue. LOL CC.

So?
Do I win????
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!

I can't tell you that...but I can tell you unless nothing more desperate looking gets posted, you will have my vote for sure! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

No one else is as willing to be as humiliated as me.....
still LMAO....
I can't believe I showed people that

ooppss
the brug police will see it.....

Oh dear oh dear Karyn! WHAT! This should be a poster ya know. About how not to treat your children or something along that line, lol! But I know how it feels to get behind - and it can get overwhelming. But I have to tell you - I am seriously considering two to vote on and you are one of them.

I may have to get CC to supply the grand prize. She sure has some great ones to pick from! LOL

errrrrrrrr YUP!

Oh my, what a lot of sorry looking plants! I had to go look at the Everlasting x Georgenpalais thread until I felt better again. :)

CC, what is the white stuff in the pots?

The first thing I saw when I looked at CC's photo was the cross on the upper right hand side...it looks like a cruxifiction !!! Really like a graveyard, although I wanted to be kind and not say it!!! ;-(

I think CC won this one hands down.................lol.........My goodness those are ugly......LOL
Poor CC has to look at them and pray...........what do you pray for them CC???

(Hiding my face here!) I haven't learned to overwinter brugs well. This one looked good until late winter,then gave up. I wasn't ready to quit so I planted it out and mulched. Can you see a tiny bit of green at its foot? Aha! I have long ago lost the name of it.
farizona

farezona...it looks bad, but I am afraid that the green at the base makes it look hopeful & I don't think this contest is a place for hopefuls! Sorry...but my vote will have to stay with CC !!! :-))))

farizona, while I do agree it looks bad but so does Kells LOL...and it her's isn't dead either, so it does belong in this contest as well as all of the others that aren't totally dead LOL :-) Even the ICU one's have some hope I believe. Never give up is what I say, nursing them back to health is just as rewarding as having a healthy one to me!!!

Good luck to all of the entries thus far!

Hugs
Julie

ROTFLMAO
You guys are soooo funny

the white stuff is the petals falling from my apple tree
it looks like snow out there....
The "cross " is an optical illusion
its one brug holding another one up....so its really a crutch....LOL

I think if I win this contest everyone should send me new "pretty brugs " to cheer me up....lol
giggle...still giggling......LOL

But if I post this picture, no one would ever trust me with another cutting! I am a bad brug mommy to these 2, but only these 2, really!
I have had these 2 cuttings in a small drink glass on my kitchen window sill since last fall, dont even remeber what they are. They are well rooted I should say, why don't I just pot them up, I dunno!

lol Sue! Reminds me of some of the stunts I've pulled this winter/spring. I started soaking seeds to plant and didn't necessarily forget them, just never got to them. My crocosmia lucifers sprouted and were growing leaves in the jar of water, my canna seeds sprouted, my nasturtiam seeds didn't sprout, but after I planted them it only took them two days to come up instead of the usual 2 weeks. The others.........well....... the water in the jars dried up, along with the shriveled seeds and now I just have more dishes to scrub. I think it's called having to much on our plates.

Wow!! Thanks!! I've taken myself off the guilt trip -- and am moving on with my life!! LOL -- I feel so much better looking at these pix and then looking at my boo-boo brug.

If I can get my camera working I'll take a pix of a tiny variegated "Snowbank" brug that escaped the Bayer application the rest of my plants got. The leaves look like swiss cheese or lace from something eating it up. I can't find what is eating it, but I suspect it is the "grasshoppers from hell" we have here. These grasshoppers are HUGE yellow and black monsters. The cat won't mess with them and the birds don't even eat them -- they must be toxic. I hate to kill things, but these are on the top of my "hit list".

Hopefully the Bayer application I gave it last week was in time to save its life... poor baby.

The Brug police will surely fine me heavily for this neglect ... but honestly ... Snowbank is in an out of the way place and I forgot to Bayer it... snifff!!! I am burning insense at the altar of the Brug Goddess in prayer and atonement. LOL

Marie

Zingy - go get yourself some preying manthis! I'm going to go get some for my gardens. I actually kind of like the looks of them - so big, ugly and strange.

Sorry Sue...not desperate looking at all...just pot them up! Is that the best you can do!! Rather the worse!!! You'll never win with that one! Sorry, you don't have my vote! It is staying with CC !

Calif_Sue, when I do stuff like that, I call it 'fear' of my brugs. Like, they are doing great rooting but I fear that if I put them in a pot, they won't do well or if I put them in the ground, they will get too much sun or too little. I kept about 15 in pots last growing season, I totally passed up spring and it was the middle of the summer before i got them in the ground. I don't know what causes me to have that fear, and I'll admit that I'm not as bad about it this year...good luck, they are sweet rootings!!!

Ahhh, Sherry, yeah, that sounds good to me, 'fear' of the brugs. I mean after all, it's got roots, why mess things up?!
Ok, Margie, I didn't think mine was quite as bad a CC's morgue. But I did try!

Karrie,
Where do you buy Praying Mantis? I've seen a few of them around here -- but don't know if they will eat the GFH.

Thanks for the input!!
Marie