Culebra & Cypress Gardens finally flushed out. Just thought I would share.
Jeremiah
Culebra & Cypress Gardens
Here is another of culebra
And Cypress Gardens
They are all beautiful. I especially like the first one. What a shape!
oh, thanks so much for posting this..it is so encouraging as I have had my culebra cutting for the summer and it has not grown at all, lost all it's leaves twice. At least this shows me the potential if I hang in there. beautiful.
Diane Krny
Your Culebra is stunning, so healthy, absolutely beautiful!!! I put mine in the ground a couple of weeks ago and it shot up, I pray that it will Y and bud, I really love it!! Do you have growing secrets??? Putting mine in the ground is the best thing that I've found to pump it up...
Jeremiah...
lovely pictures and a grand job with the plants... gee your cypress gardens is a spitting image of my beautiful specimen.. is yours fragrent... mine is only slightly detectable here... where some of the others are such a knock out... but with 4 complete flushes it's keeper even if it smelled like .. Well..
onto your culebra... I love the shape... very unusual.. in the way all of the familar parts of the plant are arranged... every part of it seem elongated and drawn out... tall thin growth.. thin flowers.. elongated and drawn out whiskers... stunning... is it fragrent>> for you there...
Gordon..
Cypress Gardens is really giving you a show for your money. I would love to have one of mine put on that many flowers at one given time. It is beautiful.
Great pictures, Jeremiah. I've had Culebra for two years and she hasn't done anything for me. Cypress Gardens has always been a good bloomer for me.
WOW, beautiful!
Oh, Culebra is beautiful! I'd never seen nor heard of that one.....will have to 'go in search of', now!
Lovely plants...great photos.
Great brugs. Culebra is just amazing. So is your GH, I say with some envy.
thanks for sharing your pictures, they are both lovely!
Jeremiah...wow!!!! The first brug is totally awesome!!
:) Donna
Your Culebra is absolutely gorgeous. I have never seen a picture of one that large. It must love Oregon and its environment and the care you give it. Cypress Garden is lovely with all its blooms.
How far is Hubbard from Dallas Oregon?
Your Culebra is beautiful. Do you keep it in the greenhouse year round? Please share your growing secrets. Maybe I can get mine to grow.
Jeremiah, that first pic is elegant..thank you for sharing it...Judy
Culebra is gorgeous!! Congrats.
They are both magnificent!
Congratulations!
Jeremiah, I keep coming back to this thread to admire your Culebra - do you have any special hints for growing her??? How old is your beauty??
First of all, thank you everyone for the very kind words. I appreciate it. I hope you enjoyed the pics.
Second, I don't really have any growing secrets. I just fertilize pretty heavy, 250-300ppm nitrogen 4 days a week. I also occasionally use a shot of epsom salts. (I use an ec meter to make sure that the salts don't build up to much, the soil ec should be between 2 - 3) Culebra took a long time to grow, it sat still for over 6 months and then I saw a new shoot coming from the soil, then another, & another, and after 6 more months I have the plant that you see. It is exactly one year old. Cypress gardens is about a year and a half old. Thanks again everyone, :)
Jeremiah
Thank you kell, here is a pic of all the greenhouses (over 80,000 sqft) that I took about a month ago. It is not as great as it seems trust me, I spend many, many hours in there caring for plants. The brugs are in one of the smaller houses in the top right of the photo.
Jeremiah
Here is another pic of the 5 big houses. The 2 on the bottom of the screen have roofs that totally open so the sunlight can come in. You can see in the pic that it is open about a foot for ventilation.
Ok, now I am on the floor, Jeremiah. You must do this for a living??? I could really let my self go if I had such space. A greenhouse of each obsession. LOL
I grow brugs for fun. I really enjoy them. They are so unique and beautiful that I can't help myself. The rest of the greenhouses do provide part of my living. We grow about 300 varieties of annuals and over 100 varieties of perennials. We also do lots of hanging baskets. I enjoy growing plants. It keeps me going.
Have you girls noticed that it is all GUYS that have grown these gorgeous plants???? How come they have the green thumbs?
Kin, Jeremiah, and Gordon. What is your secret guys??
Jeanette
That first pic really caught my eye too - what beauty!
Your Culebra is beautiful, now there is one I MUST find KELL where are U.
Hi Doris!! I am here. Dreaming over all those greenhouses. I have one but it is so small though it just put out a soil shoot so I was so excited when I read where Jeremiah said his did that and then kept going!!
By next summer I bet I can get you a piece of it, Doris.
Jeremiah,
Who manufactures the greenhouses with the moveable roof? I have dreams of not having to lug big pots into my greenhouse to overwinter. I grow my dwarf citrus trees in 30" pots and boy are they a pain, literally, to move.
Bettydee, I missed that and you are so right, that would be a wonderful thing to have wouldn't it. I counted the sections (ribs) in his gh and it appears they are 50 feet long. Unless they are a foot apart. Then 25. But being a business I would say 50.
Jeremiah do you send your plants just to local businesses in the spring or do you ship them around the Northwest?
Jeqnette
The large greenhouses with the opening roofs are manufactured by Cravo. It is a canadian company. The "ribs" on the cravo are on 12' spacing and the bows on the other 3 are on 6' spacings. The houses are 40' wide by 300' long. (12,000 sqft per house) We actually sell about 95% of the plants that we grow out of 4 retail houses that you can't see in the picture. They are just beyone the building in the top of the photo. The cravo system is great because you get all the benefits of the sunshine in good weather and the benefits from a greenhouse in poor weather. They are very nice to grow in.
Hang in there kell, culebra will grow, i promise.
Simply Gorgeous.
We need to come visit you
Sandy
My first view ever for such a Brug with "Tendrilitis" - I hope you are trying to get some seeds.
Wonderful pics -
OK kell I wrote that down in my BRUG BOOK LOL
Kell, I hope your Culebra has grown better than mine. I sent it to you to grow big in California weather. LOL