Not really, but with a second day of misting overcast rain, it sure feels like it here in Northern California! Despite the icky boo-boo nasty weather in JUNE no less, the Brugs sure make for a bright spot in the garden.
Brugs in the Pacific Northwest
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And the added benefit of the gray misty garden is that the Brugs smell good in the daytime too!
Gorgeous brug and photos Candy...It sure does add sunshine to your day!!!
Thanks Margie and good morning to you in the South Bay!
This Brug is celebrating its 2nd birthday in the garden this week. Right now it stands at about 11 Feet tall and here it was on June 5th 2003.
That's a beauty.
Great looking brug pictures. I really do like yellow. So perky and cheery.
So pretty!! So tell me, does yours stay true yellow?
Thats a beautiful tree! Is that Big Yella?
those are great! My zone envy meter is pegged again.
My, my, my
They are all so beautiful. Your Pacific Northwest threw me for a minute! I was wondering when you moved....LOL
I sure am ready for the nice weather with temps above 65 degrees. All I have so far is buds on my plants which need some warm weather.....Two weeks ago we had record Highs and now we have had two weeks of really cool wet weather. Mid 40's at night and mid 60's during the day. Today is nice, no rain and just plain Sun. Yipeeeeeee
The Yellow Brug is beautiful and you are a marvelous garden designer!!! I love to visit your threads because I know they will make me smile. Thanks for taking the time to bring us this "sunshine".
Judy
What a lovely and stately tree! Judy is right. It really is a sunny plant and your garden looks beaugiful as well.
Evening Brug Lovers!
Thanks for all your nice comments!
Back home to blue skies and warmer temps predicted for the next few days.......that tantrum I threw in the garden this morning sure brought good results! LOL
Kell - This goes from very light pale lemon yellow in the winter months to a nice yellow turning to the orangey gold in very hot weather. You can see that it is probably at its best in this cool weather we've been having. I'll take HOT and orangey gold any day!
Shelley - There are a lot of threads here on DG about this particular Brug and until last year sometime it was a 'Charles Grimaldi'.......then when some of the experts here examined the pictures as it grew up they decided it was 'Dr. Seuss'. I have several fairly large babies from this plant that are 4-7 feet tall and in non-gardening company I call them "yellow." :-)
Thank you Judy.....remember that it all happens just by "happenstance." I take credit for bringing the plants in, but Mother Nature and our wonderful climate (despite all the naughty things I've said about the lousey weather the last couple of months) deserve the lion's share of the credit.
None of my Brugs are very "exotic," but the ones I do have are all good performers and require little to no care, except for pruning harshly several times a season.
I have another yellow, unknown name.....pretty yellow with almost a pink blush to it. It came to me as 'Janet Reno' , but isn't. I still love it and it has BIG blooms and very long necks!!
It's hard to capture in the images, but perhaps you can see a tinge of pink blush kind of overall.
And an indication of how big the blooms are......I could barely hold it up and still get the camera far enough away for a full on in your face shot.
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Very pretty, Candy.
Beautiful!!! I totally agree with your Brug strategy, healthy and low maintenance for my area.
Judy
just beautiful!
yeah, what's up with this weather?
Thanks you guys....she appreciated the adoration. :-)
Yeah.....weird weather for sure Moonglow! I had to laugh yesterday as the weed-whacker crews were coming through to clear the brush in the open space for fire breaks......in the rain.
Greetings,
I just bought a brug, my first, today, at Berkeley Hort...it's a suaveolens 'Angels Trumpet' yellow-gold. The woman who sold me the plant said it would need lots and lots of water, but from reading this thread, it seems I can water somewhat moderately and be fine. What do you experts say? Any other words of wisdom before I put it in the ground? It's going in a mostly sunny location on a west-facing hill, amongst some creeping rosemary, but shielded from the worst of the late afternoon sun.
Best,
Melanie
Very pretty plant and picture.
Candy,
I have been browsing your threads and your brugmansia photos...I was just looking at your Double White -- WOW! I hope mine is half as pretty when all grown up! We are nearly neighbors. I'm just north of Berkeley, actually, about two blocks north of Albany.
I read somewhere that you are planning a move? Where to?
Your garden is amazing. I hope you don't mind my picking your brain from time to time!
Thanks for your lovely photos.
I was just in your neighborhood this morning, stopped at Berkeley Horticultural Nursery on my way back from some family business. My DD & family live in Berkeley, just listed their house yesterday and they are moving to Santa Rosa (LOTS & LOTS of great nurseries up that way!). DH and I bought land in Solano County last summer, planning to build and move sometime in '06......at least 75% of the garden will go with us. :-)
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/448023/
Hah! I was just at Berkeley Hort yesterday -- that's where I got the brug, hehe! That's good to know about the nurseries in Santa Rosa, because I still have plants to purchase and if I can't find them here, I'd prefer to drive up there than mail order. It's a long story, but I'm doing some emergency gardening, shall we say, to hide 84 portables which have sprouted nearly in my backyard, soon to house 1400 teens for three years. : 0
Solano County, nice choice! It is so gorgeous up there. I can't imagine any property up there that wouldn't be beautiful. And once you work the land for a few years it will be paradise I'm sure.
75% of the garden is coming with, you say? Holy, moly! Wow, good luck with that! I don't blame you. I wouldn't want to leave any of that behind. I can't imagine how you're going to do it, but then I can't even imagine moving the interior contents of my home.
Candy, can I just mix in some fir mulch with the existing soil when I plant this brug...will that be sufficient?
thanks!
mel
This is how I do it, I'm sure others will give you ideas on what works for them too!
I just dig a big hole. (3 times bigger than root ball)
Load it up with water, which goes no where because of the solid adobe clay "soil" we have. (This is after I pull out all the boulders!)
Mix commercial bagged manure together with commercial planting mix. (about half and half)
Fill in the hole about a third of the way up the depth, add one of those big fertilizer pellets, put the plant in with the crown an inch or two above the original soil line, fill in the hole and mound the soil mixture up to the crown, but not above it.
My brugs are all in the ground.....I just can't deal with them in pots and moving them in and out of a greenhouse that doesn't have room for them anyway. :-)
Who can argue with success!!!
Judy
Thank you Candy!!
I just noticed you provided a link about your new property -- I can't wait to browse it later tonight, after sundown, and the brugmansia is (hopefully) happily in the ground...
mel
I do water it in when I'm done, but I guess that would be a given no matter what method one used. :-)
Candy, beautiful brug photos. Look very happy and healthy. Thanks for posting. DonnaS
Dang, I wish I could post a picture of my young brug. She looks pretty content amongst the prostrate rosemary. Oh, and I have a heap of boulders left over from the planting hole if anyone needs them, he he. Hubby couldn't believe the pile. Being as this is on a hill, I thought I would never finish the hole -- it was very awkward. It nearly did me in! But well worth it, and I've got lots of rosemary left over to plant in another area that needs it. Soaker hose installed. Staked it too (just with two 5' bamboo poles -- I don't know if that will do much). Then I cultivated an area for a row of mexican sunflowers. At midnight! Well, this is life with ms -- I have a little problem with heat sensitivity, so nightime gardening, what the hey, why not? I've actually taken to gardening in the winter rain, lol.
Candy, your Field of Dreams is just beautiful! I love the oaks, the rolling hills, the idea of a creek running through the property. What I wouldn't give to have that kind of acreage. I'd have to drug my husband to get him out of the city though. (We're musicians, hard to find enough work outside major cities, but aside from that, he just freaks out at the idea of living in the country, arrgh.) I couldn't believe all you had to go through to figure out the septic. Good grief! Are you really going to dig another pond? I couldn't believe the pond you built at your present place -- you truly are amazing!
How are things coming along with the property presently...or is there already a thread going that you would prefer to link me to?
BTW, I'm coming over for Thanksgiving!
Best,
Melanie
Slow going as we battle the permit, grading, septic issues. House plans continue to progress.....we still hope to break ground sometime this year! Some days I'm confident and others I'm ready to market the land and look for somewhere else. Up, down, and around with the paperwork involved.
We have friends that bought property and built and just moved in this week, about 6 years later. Paperwork and fights with Santa Cruz County over permits, envirmental studies, everything nearly killed them. Then they ended up having to build almost all them selves as it dragged out sucking up all their money. They have aged and really look haggard after all the trials getting it done.
But that is Santa Cruz, it won't be that bad for you I am sure. :-)
Wow, still battling the septic..that is so unreal! Well, at least the house plans are still progressing. Keep the spirit up, I somehow sense it will all be worth it!
Take care,
Melanie
All your Brugs are SO gorgeous! They earned an A+++!