The different brugs seem to be taking turns blooming, and I love it.
Today is Pink day and double stuffed white with very long tendrils.
Still wish I had a name for these. It is very prolific, easy to propogate and blooms lots.
It's certainly not as dark as Kells but it sure does bloom a lot. Pretty plant.
Here is a closeup!
This is on another plant, one I got from a nursery that was marked
Suavedlens Pink.
And this is my double stuffed white that has no name. Poor nameless flower, BUT wow, look at these tendrils.
oh, I like that first one. Please tell me it fills the air with perfume... ???
Buns what a beautiful plant and so loaded with blooms. The pictures surely make me smile. I love the large plants that are just loaded with blooms.
Did you just allow all the suckers to stay on the plant and that is why it is so full and pretty.? I had intended to remove all the suckers from mine, but after seeing pictures of fuller, bushier Brugs I have decided to allow them to remain on most of my plants in the larger pots.. I know it will slow the bloom production but that's OK with me.
I love your pictures!!
Judy
That double white is lovely!!! Oh, heck...they are all gorgeous!
Judy, I'm leaning towards the the full bush style myself. Especially with the ones that apparently came from cuttings above the Y, I'll just let them go. Hopefully lots of blooms in our short season and I'll start over from another cutting.
When I first started I just stuck them in the ground and let them go. No pruning here. Then I had tons of "sticks" (cuttings) left over from cutting them back before freezes so I just walked around like Johnny appleseed sticking them in the ground, now I have a jungle.
I have recently gotten a few plants that I am trying to make into little trees like all of your pictures. I haven't gotten the numbers of blooms that you all seem to get but I am just starting on them. These little trees have only had 1-3 blooms so far at a time.
As you can see I have potted up lots and stuck them out in the back. Looking at all those pots I may give up and just plant them, not sure I want to lug all those in for the winter.
You are in the Pink! Your blooms are lovely!
Beautiful blooms Buns. It must smell awesome in your yard at night.
Holy cow! Have you got a faucet back there or are you driving around in a golfcart with a big bucket. How many times a day do you have to water them? It's just now getting hot here but I'm already starting to worry about watering enough for the ones in containers.
Here is a versi peach that I am working on, it had ONE bloom. But it was a pretty one.
And I love the shape of this Amber Rose but look how dwarfed it looks in front of my Yellow.
I have a very long hose (actually several very long hoses from different parts of the yard) and actually love my time watering. I put the sprinkler on some of them the other night, the ones that it is hard reaching with the hose.
The ones I am having the most problems with are the verigated ones. They seem to be very touchy.
had to go back and look twice! I thought that was just property line trees/brush behind the Amber Rose. Is that in a pot as well? wow
Buns, looking good! Your Frosty type sure has alot of character in her skirt with all the dips. The tendrils on your DW are just fantastic.
So in your zone, why can't you leave them all out? I leave most of mine out. I do put special ones in a hoophouse my DH builds fo rme. It takes about 4 hours to put it up and it is cheap. Keeps the frost off them and the mess out of the house. With all your room, you should try it. If you plant those along the back they will get huge. What a sight that would be in full flower.
Oh please tell me how to build a hoop house, sounds interesting.
I have never had to baby my brugs here, but they are all in the ground and being in pots they might freeze back on those two occassions it goes below 32 every other year or so. It always catches me out of town, lol. I am sure I am babying these too much.
No 8ft, it isn't in a pot. I just stuck a stick in the ground by the bunnies to help shade them and you know that story about Jack and the beanstalk, well........
I do have some in pots back there but they have grown into the ground and one has busted out of it's pot. They do have a mind of their own.
You made me go take a picture of one, now I am feeling sorry for it.
LOL. What a great pic. Mine even root thru to the ground thru those small holes on the sides of the black nursery pots. They want to put down a good deep root system. LOL.
This is what my husband followed with some modificaitons. This last year he figured out how to make it 12 ft tall. We also lay bags of soil, the 2 cu ft. ones, all around the hoophouse on the plastic along the bottom. It keeps it from flying off in the bad storms. Make sure you leave enough plastic hanging off the sides to weigh it down well. They are very inexpensive to make and we just buy new new plastic every year at HD.
http://www.westsidegardener.com/howto/hoophouse.html
"..... the surly bonds of pots" BUSTED! That is a fantastic picture.
Hey, if you want to extend the life of cheap containers with those metal bands that only last a year and then fall apart (cheap 1/2 barrels in my case) I discovered some of to nylon zip-ties at the hardware store that were about 30" long. I connect two and pull them down in the groove the rusted bans are in.. Bada Boom, Bada Bing.. They were black too, so they kind of blend in.
All these blooms! I still have till probably July before I see anything that remotely resembles a bloom! At least I get to seem them here for now!
Absolutely beautiful!! I love pink..
8)
Love the brug pictures, especially the one "busted out of the pot", that is huge. I hope you get lots of blooms on all of them this summer. They are such an enjoyable plant, even if they do cause some stress from time to time.
Wow
the pictures are wonderful
That brug breaking out of its bonds of slavery is too much
like the hulk
they look fabulous Buns
Buns,
Check out the Greenhouse Forum for ideas on a hoop house. If you have high winds the PVC hoophouse might not survive. Start a thread asking questions, the people who visit that forum are good about giving information.
Judy
