These pics were taken this weekend. You will see yellow leaves and a few tattered blooms and leaves. It's been hot and windy here, and the plants have taken a beating. These froze at Christmas, so you will see a few dead stems sticking up, I just didn't get them taken off in time.
Georgia Peach by the pool. This poor abused plant takes such a battering. It's on a windy corner, in sandy soil.
Peaches and Cream, it has a green sport that is bigger than the variegated part, so it gets a little shade.
Island Girl
KBS Poolside. this is not the best place for brugs. When they shed it gets in the pool and when the wind blows it tears them to shreds.
Pink Beauty.
Grand Child. This one is a little fuzzy, the plant is growing at the back of the flowerbed and the gardens were a little muddy.
Susie, they look great! I can't imagine how hard it has been to change zones so drastically and start over! I am learning a whole new way of gardening with the greenhouse this year. I have one blooming and a few others with buds. I have never seen blooms in May!! I owe a lot of my tropical and daylily infatuation to you. LOL Hmmm, do I mean that in the good way? :)
Daybreak is still mostly buds.
Poor Charlie has one little flower
Last one for today, Rosamond.
I have more flowering, just didn't have time to take pics.
Those are beautiful, Susie. Boy, could I use your pool today. It is so darn hot here.
Susie, They all are beautiful. Your's are way ahead in blooming. I only have four blooming so far, but I know the best is yet to come. Now if I can just keep all those tiny ground slugs off them. They really did alot of damage to my seedlings while I was out of town for a couple weeks. In fact it was so bad that I moved some of the most damaged one's back in the greenhouse to protect them. Most of them were seedlings from Kells seeds, so I have been
really bummed about it.
They're all so beautiful! They definitely have acclimated themselves very well to your new growing climate!
Susie, they are all so stunning! Beautiful and so healthy!! Thanks for sharing your beautiful brugs with us :-)
Hugs
Julie
They are all beautiful! If anyone asks why I like Brugs I can point them to the lovely variety you have. Thanks for sharing.
Excuse me now. I'm going to go outside to talk to my Brugs about blooming...... soon!
Mary
Gosh Susie, have a few why don't you! LOL. Just lovely. I particularly like P & C. Your Grandchild looks interesing too. I would love to see a few more of that one. Is that the one you and Trace named after Gloria? I am trying to make my memory work, it is so tough to do. LOL I like GP also, she is such a different color and shape from the usual.
Thanks for such a great picture show.
Thanks guys, the wind this time of year is so unpredictable and I am surprised I have so many blooms. Last spring I was ready to give up, every time they would get buds and start to open we would have wind and the flowers would go flying across the yard.
Kell, Grandchild is the one we grew from Whiskers and asked Gloria if we could name it that and she said yes.
I love GP, and I've treated it so badly but it keeps on blooming. Poor thing, I forget that the bed around the pool is really sandy and dries out fast and it will wilt(then the leaves yellow and fall off). Last year the purple sugar cane got so big it beat GP half to death when the wind would blow.
Awwwwwwwwww poor GP
Susie,
Thanks for sharing your Brug photos. I especially like the tendrils on the Rosamond. I've seen Rosemond, Rosamond, Rosamund. Am I correct in assuming they are all the same? I'm too new to tell a good Brug from a bad one. I enjoy them all and have started a collection. I have a lot to learn. Lurking has helped.
Veronica
Great pictures, Susie. The wind and hail did a number on my Brugs also.
Veronica, I think they are all the same plant.
Ada, we're supposed to get a storm moving thru with hail. Figures, it hails about once every 20 years down here! Kind of like the once in a hundred year snow, sure as I move here, it will happen!
I still can't beleive how much you have done with your yard in such a short period of time, Susie. Man, it looks wonderful!!
I am jealous of the blooms tho. I am off with the fertilizer and my favorite costume to do my "Bloom Damnit" dance around the Brugs.
We need pics of that Mel. LOL
That's gotta be a site to see, lol. I agree, we need pics!
Gorgeous!! My brugs want to move to zone 10 and have you as their mother, but then I'd have to move with them too! Need a nurse?
Susan
Well Susie
If these things happen only once in a hundred years ,get it over with now and it will never happen again.....
well it sounded good when I thought it...LOL
and the brugs look wonderful
are there any that did better in Tenn than in TX?
They are all beautiful Susie. I know it smells really good at your house at sundown.
Mel, I'm anxiously awaiting the photographs of you in your costume...LOL
The "Bloom Damnit" Dance is a sacred ritual and I'm afriaid it might not work if I photographed the event.
The storm moved thru fast, wind and some rain, no damage, it's out in the Gulf of Mexico now and the sun is out. No hail, just a few tree limbs in the yard that I'll have to pick up.
calalily, when you come see roz will you give me some cuttings...LOL
Those are really nice....
ely..
Yes, I'll try to remember to bring you some cuttings. You will have to bring ears!
I will hook you up........ =)
ely
You will have to remind me or I will forget the cuttings. I'm making myself a note. It's sad to keep one's brain on a notepad!
LOL. I have never heard that before, Susie. Unfortunately, it is too late for me to keep it even there on a notepad. LOL
Hey Mel, I think you are confused. It says in the dance manual for nuts, that you MUST photograph every movement for it to work. So get busy.
Susan, are you a nurse too? So many of us gardeners are it seems.
Have a question. It looks like from the pics that you keep the brugs pretty upright and take off the lateral leaves.. Is that because you want them tall and thin................Oh, would I like that for me, ROTFL>>>>>>,) or they just bloom better?
Also, most of these that I see posted are short, like me....now that's a nice thing...LOL After the "Y" ,just let them get a little taller and then start pinching????
I have planted 5 for the first time this year and they are in the ground and will stay there. Don't want trees like my neighbors, but would like them to be about 8'. Tall by easy enough to keep that height.
Any info would be helpful...Thanks guys...
Hap
Hap, I've ended up with short plants this year, not sure why. I know Island Girl, Pink Beauty and KBS have always been short for me, but the others usually are over my head. I don't know if it was the freeze that did it or if it's the wind. Susanne Y'ed at 3 ft and she's usually 6 ft or more.
I pull the bottom leaves off so the plant as a whole gets less wind damage. Plus, I like the bare stem look, I can plant other stuff right up to the base of the plant.
Mel, in my manual it says you have to get someone to take pictures. It says you should ask a neighbor who already thinks youre nuts!
Thanks Calalily.
On one thing you can be sure, Susie. My neighbors do not THINK I am nuts. They KNOW I am nuts. I have a reputation to protect, you know!
Mel:
I really like costumes so If I show you mine http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/511596/ maybe you'll show me yours. :-)
Too funny and you are too cute Delecie. I love it.
