Limited space-your recomendations

Ok, I just can't make up my mind what I want to grow brug wise since I have limited space. I see all the posted blooms and love/want them all but I know that some may be better performers and all around plants than others. I am looking for recomendations for all colors, lots of blooms/flushes, good growth, ease of care, (not prone to problems) does good with no humidity (guess kell could be the one to give suggestions for favorites for out area).
Appreciate any suggestions and hope I can later on perhaps pick up cuttings as things get cut back for the winter.

Below is my first brug, and a huge one in my garden, Frosty Pink, I believe. It can make room for others.

Wow! What a beautiful photo. Nice....Nice ... Nice....
I must admit FP has always been a good one for performance and holds up Extremly well in the heat.

Ok, it stays LOL! Good think too, I was not looking forward to removing that monster planted in the ground.

Such a photo. That is the best pic of Frosty I have ever seen. It would sell millions of them. LOL

Hey Sue, I understand the no room!!! I do wall to wall planting. I know it looks tacky but I can't help myself. I have a need to grow every plant that catches my fancy. LOL

Grow standards Sue, not bushes. You can fit so many more into your landscape.

Anyway, you have to decide what is pleasing to your eye. I have strong personal preferences about what I think is pretty as far as brugs go. You may like a totally different look. Have you decided which brugs really catch your eye? Suavs types? Aureas? Versicolors? etc? It took me about 2 years before my eye could really catch the differences and my mind knew what i really liked.

Now see, so far I am unable to retain the differences, yet. It's a memory thing LOL. I do know I like the bloom shapes of Rosabelle, Rosamund, Tropical Sunset, Ecuador Pink, I guess that long narrow bloom with the nicely flared skirts and whiskers. Love the rich colors that really show off, apricots, peach, golds, rich pinks. I have a nice fragrant double white. If I do lots of standards around my patio, good fragrance would be a big plus.

Well, your frosty is a definite one to keep, seems to do well in any situation. I love the looks of my mountain treasure with it's long tendrils, it smells wonderful too.


I'm having the same trouble you are, deciding which ones to keep. I'm stuck with creamsicle, h double white. harrenhauser garten. mountain treasure, frosty pink. Any of the ones that are in the gorund now, if they come back, then I'll keep them LOL. I'll keep all the variegated ones probably. And a couple of oldies that smell wonderful like the tequila sunrise and jean pasco. When my others bloom I'll know others that i'll keep, I'm trying to stick with the doubles and the variegates and the smell goods. LOL I never knew about mountain treasure being so beautiful till my recent flush of blooms, and Iknew right away It was a keeper for me. I'll keep a yellow one too, if I can find one that has a good scent.
kathy_ann

I live in Livermore, and my absolute favorite is B. creamsickle and B. goldenlady.
B. creamsicle never starts blooming for me throughout the summer and Fall. It is always the first to bloom and the never stops until frost. B. goldenlady does almost as well. Neither of these are bothered much by our heat. B. pink beauty and B. l'amour are also wonderful brugs. that bloom often for me and seem to hold up to the heat.

Patricia

Thank you both Kathy Ann and Patricia for your suggestions! They will all go on my wish lists.

oh yes, golden lady is on my keep list too. I've started a keep list but it's out in the greenhouse. Ikeep getting confused and scratching out brugs and adding more. Now it looks like chicken scratch. I've got a forevermorr and another new one i'm keeping too, can't think of that other one's name. Oh yes, how could I forget the halo peach, that's got to have the most beautiful flower, but remember Sue, I'm keeping most for looks and fragrance, alot of them I'm not sure how they'd hold up to the heat, I do know that I moved in alot this summer from the outside to the greenhouse to keep the leaves from turning yellow from too much sun, their all doing good now except for the bugs and mold thing going on.

Youll have to post your keep list for us when you get it figured out .

I will, IF I get it figured out!

These two aren't 'special', but they are nice and honest, what you see is what you get! I love Maya, her foliage is worth the trip, she takes extremes well and isn't a bug magnet. Then I have another brug that wintered outside and started blooming June 23 and she has not been without a bloom a single day since, Pink Favorite and she's not a big girl, has small leaves, but LOTS of heart and has a lovely soft citrus smell and she is NOT a bug magnet. PF is not crazy about the southeast Arky heat, but it does not stop her blooming. She's cute. These are two that I figure if they will do anything at all in my area/zone, they will be wonderful in yours!! Good luck, please tell us which ones you select and how they do...

They both sound wonderful Sherry, nice and honest and PF with lots of heart sounds real good me! Thanks for sharing that.

A book I have says that B. insignis and its hybrids, such as "Pink Favorite" require the most heat of all of the species of Brugmansia to do well.

Hey Sue, I cut back to about 20 this year but I am about to cut off a bunch of suckers and root them. The heat has set in and we are supposed to stay in the 90s. They need to go live in their own dirt. LOL E me when you make up your mind or you can look up the ones I have to see if you are interested.

You got a list somewhere I can look at Chele? Couldn't find one. I have a list started. It's long, needs to be downsized. Like usual.

LOL Sue! I will type one up and send it to you. I pretty much stopped keeping lists anywhere. The ones that can be found are out of date. I was getting too much mileage from being "shopped". ;)

I've got insignus pink planted out in the full sun, where it gets the blunt of the heat, and it does do well. It did take it a while to come back from being dormant in the winter time. It's half the size of the frosty that's planted right across the walk way. But it does take the extreme heat well. It looks too much like frosty to want to keep both though LOL

kathy