So sad!! But I have no room to breath anymore. Even old Stubby is going bye bye. It got so out of control. I couldn't even walk in it anymore. It has about 25 brugs, all 10 to 16 ft tall brugs in it. All from my first year on Dave's, from seeds people gave me except for Big Yella. I have threatened to do it before but this time I have started!!
jun_gle boo_gie.....
.........jungle BOOGIE!!
As they bloom Tom will dug them out. Here is the first casualty. It was so tall and so straight.
LOL, Blaine. It is a jungle no more. All I had to say last night was Tom, help me kill some brugs and he shot off that couch. He hates brugs so much! LOL
This one was a white suavs. An ugly white suavs.
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EEK -- how sad. Are they off to Brug heaven or are you transplanting them somewhere?
Diane
No. 2 bits the dust. Surprising the root system was very small and they were easily dug.
Oh no Diane, they are brugs that did not make the grade. But I was just attached to them and kept them for they were my first seedlings.
Opps, I forgot the picture.
I have decided the original Big Yella has to go to. It is the size of huge room. I can put 10 big seedlings in its place.
Here is part of it, it doesn't even fit on the camera anymore. LOL
However, 1 sucker is standing so tall and straight, I can have seedlings under it and they will still get sun so I will keep that. Plus it was so full of blooms last night, I said to my husband NOOOOO!!! Do not saw that one down!!
The original Big Yella is so big. Here is the inside of him.
So beautiful Big Yella, wish I could have this few plants of it cutting, I lost all mine that I had three of them all die so disappointed.
geesh it must be nice to grow them so big and tall. Really hate to see you kill them lol.
Oh Hi Jeanne, it feels like I am losing old friends. But you are right. My husband wants to be able to walk in his back yard again. He is more important then some brugs. I keep forgetting this is his house too!
And when a few brugs were cut, I could actually stand in the middle of the brug garden and see my 30 year old bougainvillea that I used to be able to see from my bed. I hope to see it again soon. Birds stand on the tallest branches as they sway in the wind. Fun to watch. We also could see it from anywhere in my back yard. The brugs had grown so big, none of it glorious color was visible anymore.
We only took a few out last night, but lots of suckers. It will take a few weeks to finish the dastardly deed.
Oh my!! I hear their screams all the way from California!!
It must be nice to know that you have so many other BETTER ones!
Lucky you!!
Bonnie
Oh too bad Redrose. That must have been from the 50 boxes I sent out 2 years ago, huh? I remember that, what an ordeal. LOL. I cannot promise anymore plants. I have too many outstanding promises now that I am so far behind in sending. But I have sent out so many pieces of Big Yella, I bet someone else will send you a piece, Red Rose.
Donna, the secret is to plant the seedlings way too close together, the strongest grow up so tall and put out a canopy. The others grow tall and thin looking for light. I have a few that actually have crawled along the bottom on the ground till they get to the edge and light. It looks so weird to have brugs lying flat on the ground for 10 ft then they start standing up. LOL
Here is a vine I had planted at the very back on the fence 2 years ago. I hadn't seen it since. When I got back there last night, it had grown up, up and so far away! It was all over everything in the back and had made it across to the bouganvillea. It also had grown into my neighbor's yard. They never said anything! Tom was shocked the fence had held up, it was so overwhleming. CLIP CLIP CLIP. It is now a 4 ft stump. Such pretty flowers too. Did I tell you all that Tom just hates vines almost as much as he hates brugs. LOL
Kell...I know it is a tough job...but just think how good you (and TOM) will feel when it is over.
Too bad you can't give them away!!!!
Carol
Like brugcrazy said, you gotta do what you gotta do. I admire you, I love change, I'm allergic to things being the same, so I know exactly were you are. Have fun, I cannot wait to see the up do!!!
That must have smelled like heaven with all those gigantic brugs blooming. I'll be happy if I can get any to bloom. Hey you didn't tell me you had a thunbergia.
:) Donna
Oh kell how could you, killing Brugs when we are all struggling to save ours, that white one is beautifull..... SIGH.....
Doris
LOL Doris, Give yourself a couple years, and you just may be in the same boat.
I keep telling myself that too, so I don't cry
Jackie
Kell, Big Yella is Gigunga! (Is that a word?)
Too much ! CLIP CLIP CLIP
Oh no, not Big Yella! By the way, is that an official name or a nickname? Whatever, it sure fits.
Meanwhile I'm thinking of getting rid of a couple of bougainvillea to make room for more Brugs. They're pretty, but darn those thorns! They also grow way too fast. They can overpower everything except the morning glory which has grown like the worst megamania plant I've ever had. Gotta do something about that this year.
Mary
Kell ... did you take a before photo?? A before & after one?
I remember when I first joined you showed me a picture of you garden Kell and it took my breath away.......in it was that bougainvillea in all it's pride and glory.
Oh Kell, you're going to love it, new places to grow again. That one sucker you kept from Big Yeller is absolutely amazing. More Pictures, quick.
I have 8 different kinds of thunbergia, Donna. LOL. And 4 of them are very aggressive. I have no business having them. LOL
Thank you Pam, but the truth is that it is not so hot in person. LOL But that bougainvillea is incredible. It needs a trim right now. I need to buy a taller pole cutter.
Exactly true Buns. And my DH wants his lawn back. Little as it is.
Doris, sadly that white one is a typical suav. It is the most common one that you get. There is really nothing too exciting about it.. When you grow as many as I grow, it is a huge disappoinment when you see it open. A waste of soil, fertilizer, space and my time. However, I now pick the seeds I grow with much more knowledge so I rarely get one like this anymore. In a few days I will post a white suav. that is captivating and has so much personality. Or it did for the last 2 years. LOL
Give yourself some time. I have been at this for a while now and at it with a vengeance. Some might say at it like a nut. To do the work I do on these and spend the money I spend on these, I would have to be nuts.
Here are my rented plots tonight. I added a 3rd one this year. I have to go and water before or after work. We just planted another 130 seedlings here. The water pressure is horrendous. It now takes me 2 straight hours plus to water here. We get no rain in the summer, so I have to do this frequently. I also spend at least a few hours to all day here every weekend. Plus I have another yard I grow seedlings in and my own yard. I am looking for a 4th place because I love to suffer.
ROFL Kell
Kell,
The labor of love you have put into all of those brugs is evident, not to mention your generosity.
The ones you sent to me 2 years ago are thriving and have gotten quite big, so big that I've been able to pay it forward to quite a few folks .
But, I can well understand why you are doing this! I love changes; they are refreshing and opens the door for new ideas!
Gracie
Nothing is more fun than a bare plot of land ! I can't wait to see what you do with it Kell.
Kell,I did the same thing....every suave went on the compost
and anyof them that even reminds me of a suave goes there too
Ya gotta draw the line somewhere,I want tendrils,suave aint got'um
CC & Kell - please tell us which ones you did or will keep and consider worthy brugs... enquiring minds want to know...
me too, I 2nd that emotion SherryL
Great grace, glad to hear they di dso well.
CC, you didn't toss First day did you??
As my mother always said, every eye forms its own beauty! So those of us who really look at the brugs posted here, will soon discern the differences between the brugs and certain characteristics will appeal to you. The first year on here, they all looked kind of alike to me, then I started noticing all the differences. And certain things I found beautiful and certain things I found unappealing, like a long turkey neck. LOL. Yet I was just talking to Carol and she loves the long turkey neck.
When I grow new ones, I mostly want it to have something different, a different look from what is out there. If there are a hundred out there, like Frosty types, I would have to say good bye. Why introduce another look alike? White suavs usually have little body to them, little ump. And they are usually not only common, but have few characteristics that I like.
When you have several hundred different brugs blooming, your eye gets a bit more selective then when you are just starting or only have a few. All would be considered beautiful if they were the only brug alive.
Suavs because they are so SB prone, are not as desirable whether they appeal to you or not. .
I personally like a deep color, though I recently grew 2 buff colored brugs that I adore. I like a brug to be floriferous, a real plus. I like long tendrils but I am also fond of the wide open dinner plate look of some suavs who happen to have stubby tendrils. I like a nodder with a wide open skirt. A low calyx with a flared full skirt really appeal to me also. I actually prefer the shape of singles to doubles. And I love a huge flower with strong walls. A girlie girl brug always appeals to me. LOL I am a gaud queen!! So far though, none of mine have made the grade. LOL
I want a man with a slow hand
I want a lover with an easy touch
I want somebody who will spend some time
Not come and go in a heated rush
I want somebody who will understand
When it comes to love, I want a slow hand
LOL Slow Hand by the Pointer Sisters
You are your worst critic Kell - your brugs are beautiful and your garden is lovely!! I haven't been here long but I am already culling brugs, I never, ever thought that would happen, and wow it happened almost over night...
Too little planting space could be a blessing of sorts; it lets a person say "I have no reasonable option !"
I still have all of my named Brugs, because when I say "You, Almost-Frosty, OUT of the gene pool !" it starts to wilt in misery, pointing at it's name tag, and I give in, and move it to the 'back forty' bed. *sigh*. How do you tell a once wanted child "You Die! I don't love you anymore" knowing you have food, water, and beds to spare?
I suppose if I ever go seriously mad, you'll hear of a woman throwing herself in front of the roadside mowing machines screaming "Stop! Stop!! You're killing them allllllll!!!!! ;)
Mark hates my plants too. He is afraid one day they will just cover him up and I won't notice. Or one morning he might wake up with a brug cutting stuck in his rear to root. That is not exactly how he worded it but you get the picture. lol
Must be nice to be able to stick your brugs in the ground and leave them. Looks like ya'll will be busy for a while.
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Lagata, that never stopped me or Kell. We rent a plot after we fill ours up. LOL I have two and a half acres and it's beginning to look like a jungle. Now I've cleaned my neighbors field and have 100+ planted there and many more waiting to be planted..
I think you may surpass me Ada in your insanity!! LOL. I am so glad I know someone more crazed.
Gee Lagata, I never ever said to myself I have no reasonable option. I say I will worry about it later and get the plant. There has never been anything reasonable me. LOL Just today I went so overboard and am already planning a sneak trip back tomorrow.
Shadow, Mark might get more attention if he was covered by brugs. Ask him if he ever considered that. He may have stumbled on a great idea!
Brugs will do that to a person
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"Today the neighbors yard, Tomorrow the WORLD (insert maniacal laughter here ;) "
(Hey there Loretta!! Been missing you Lady; hope all is well?!!)
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