Oh Kell, I never tried to grow them again after the huge amount of stuff I sent this person and they never grew...the yellow at that time was so expensive and now I see them for a pretty reasonable price...and OMG variegated now?....dont even go there...I would jump right this minute...oh where is a picture...lolol...
Deal or Rooked?
Oh Judy, lets jump together. LOL
Be still my variegated heart.
One pic to die for then we best back on topic, our beloved Brugmansia!
There are lots more that are just amazing.
From http://www.chineseclivia.com/
The clivias are beautiful, Kell. Keep us posted on your new venture.
I am sticking to these for now: Morning Glories, Passion Flowers, Castor Bean, Datura and starting in Brugs.
I sure didn't mean to get a rise out of anyone. My original question was really innocent. I wasn't trying to hurt anyone or
cause a rucus. Being a newbie, I just really need to know so I would know what to expect and what not to expect in the future.
Thanks to everyone for their help and their opinions. You Brugs People are the greatest! Your love for Brugs is evident and contagious.
Now I need to go tend to my babies and hope that I don't nurture them too much...LOL...
I will keep you posted as to their progress.
~Nut4Spuds/Nikki
Oh Thanks alot Kell, now I feel a variegated Clivia addiction coming on . Actually, I've secretly been in love with the yellow, but when they were first introduced I just couldnt bring myself to fork over $99. Prices are much better now. But I can see I'm going to have to get a third job to support a VARIEGATED clivia fix!
Nikki, I have a rooted purple morning glory that I can't seem to give away in the plant trade forum, it's yours for postage if you want it. So far, it has survived our freezing winters here and is about 40' into the walnut tree, it's like VINEZILLA and even sent runners under the house which came up through the closet floorboards! (ours is a 100 yr old house, so needless to say, not much subfloor!) Roots like a sonuvagun. (can provide cuttings for anyone who dares plant it!)
I appreciate you starting this thread. I recently did a great trade with another DG'er and received 16 -12" healthy brug cuttings (doubles and pinks) in exchange for a flat rate box of succulents. So I figure even If I only root one of the 16 (they all look good so far though), I'm still WAY ahead (thanks to the DG member, you know who you are!!!!). So it would seem to me that your deal is a pretty good one when you shop around. take a peek at e(vil)Bay and you will see what I mean. Thanks again for the thread.
Happy Gardening All!
I could really get into MGs too, Nikki! I have been eyeing some of the Japanese ones with much lust. I am hoping for a chance to buy some seeds if there is ever another coop for them! My claim to passion vine fame is I bought a Passiflora parritae at the Berkeley Botanical gardens sale. I can't wait for flowers.
Lali, please post a pic of this vinezilla MG! LOL. I want to see it!!! To bad some are so aggressive. I need more land.
Wow Lali, quite the trade. Soon you too will be drowning in brugs!! Misery loves company! LOL
Yes, these clivia are so expensive. I understand $1000 for a hot plant is not even that expensive. I need to win the lottery!
Kell, didn't someone from Anaheim win $340 million last night? WOW, just imagine the gardening possibilities with that amout of cashola! You guys need to stop talking Clivia....I sure don't need another addiction or obsession....and I keep looking at them. LOL
must not be my brother....unless he wants to keep it a secret from me. lol.
LOL Annapet! 340 million!! I need to start buying tickets. With my luck I would win on the eve of my death.
Hey Brinda, you have time now for a new adiction!!! Did you check out the pics on that site? I really have never seen such pretty little things and they do not take up much room and are supposedly not fussy at all!
LOL Kell....you're sitting there with a voodoo doll making me click that button again, aren't you?
Vinezilla, view only if you dare....
Looks innocent enough right?
Laughs at me when I approach it with my machete!
Claims to have some kin named 'Kudzu', laughs some more at me and then grows another 5 feet. (a day!)
but hard to say 'no' to such glorious blossoms (no pun intended)
I'm more than happy to share cuttings for postage. But you have been warned
Ackkkkkkkk!!! I'm covered here in morning glories. They just keep multipling. I can only imagine how they must be in California. Kell had a pic of a morning glory that was a mammoth! Check this out. http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/529764/
Well shoot....I edited and it didn't happen! LOL
I meant to say that your blooms are just beautiful. Even though MG's are rampant....they are still a beautiful vine and flower. That must be a beautiful sight in the mornings.
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i think mine is a cousin to kell's sorry to get so far OT
Hey Lali, yours is mine!! That is the perennial one and it will take over your land and everything on it. It grows by putting out 100 ft runners that can go thru anything. I bet it was coming up your bathroom floor. If I were you I would kill it now before it kills everything in your yard. The trouble is it roots where it touches down so you have tons of plants not just one to kill!!
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/51653/index.html
I would only grow it in a pot far from dirt for it will send out runners or if you live where the winter will kill it so you get to start over the next year. The flowers are just so great and so plentiful!!
Yes Brinda, I sure am. STICK STICK I want some friends to get into clivia with me. LOL.
i can get none mg going here my yard wish i could plant whole dirt yard with them!
Hope, trust me, if you plant this one, it will grow! If you want some in the spring to try, I'll send some.
Kell, this one has been in the ground about 10 years (ipomea purpurea i believe), I literally have to hack it back to a nub each year. those photo's show jus this year! It has surrounded my house. I pulled at least 50' runners out from under the house every year. What is so cool is that they are like endive that you get that's all white - deprived of light. It's amazing that it will still grow like that.
Like I said ...Kudzu of California. There was a time (like the last 16 years) that I let those plants that could survive with out summer water do their thing, this one being one of them, because our water well was too low to irrigate landscaping, it was survival of the fittest. A year ago we drilled a new wonderful well that I can irrigate the town with.
Bad part about that is that I increased my plant population by 1000 fold this year, now.... where to put all of these plants for the winter...hmmm.
LOL. Yes it sounds like Kudzu!! Beautiful kudzu!! So yours sets seeds then. And is an annual. I love the darker colors of it. Very pretty and so seductive before it takes over. http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/57560/index.html
The one I have (Ipomoea acuminata) that is so invasive doesn't really set seeds, it spreads by runners. It roots where it touches down. Horrible to get rid of.
I do not know which is worse though, seeds or runners. LOL
Your property sounds so great Lali.
No, no seeds, it's perennial (purchased with that name, but it could be wrong), it survives frost, but not a hard freeze.
It just roots at every node as it creeps, Im beginning to think it has adapted and become epiphytic, just suckers to the walnut tree it climbs LOL!
I think it is this one Lali. http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/51653/index.html then. Look at all the pictures and see.
So how can you control it if it is rooting all over the place? You must be doing a great job if this is 10 years later and you are not smothered in it. LOL I am impressed!! That plant is relentless.
I have a big Machete! And a DH that I turn loose on it! He gets on the roof and starts hacking!
I put on my WellsLamont gloves and get to pullin' every spring. Like I said it just laughs at me and keeps on going.
I leave it all winter so that it can protect itself at the base. All the tops freeze, but the base stays pretty good. Though we lost it one year, but it's pretty determined.
You must still be young! I think I need me some of those WellsLamont gloves!!! LOL
A shopping you must go...http://www.wellslamont.com/index.tpl
my garden tool basics (can't live without them) are Felco pruners (same pair, 16 years and still going strong!), a pair of these gloves (sometimes one new pair a year since I stack several cord of wood with them too) and my digging fork. After that everything else is pure cream!
37 years young, but feel much more 'antiqued' LOL.
The japanese Morning Glories look, well.... glorious! Sadly I have a perennial one like yours begoniacrazii that has megalomania and is trying to take over the world. It's pretty, but it'll smother anything it reaches. It was in competition with a passion flower bush, but it appears to have won. If I had it to do over again, I wouldn't. The annual type are pretty and easier to control. I'll stick to that type in the future.
Mary
I;m antiqued at 57.. ......... 37 is soooooo young...maybe I need a pair of them gloves too if they come with extra energy..
elva
Evilbay, lol. Not my experience. I have bought cuttings there and many other items, I would rate overall sellers about 85%. With most small items, the shipping is often overcharged because it's the only way to make any money. For instance, I have bought earring for as little as a penny up to dollar regularly. I get charged too much postage, but frankly, I would not even bother with the hassle of listing them, contacting the buyer, wrapping and mailing the item for less than $20. So I don't sell small items on ebay. Don't blame ebay for problems; they do their job very well. And if you have a problem, you can contact Safe Harbor. But don't holler about shipping fees plainly stated in the auction. If not stated, there is a way to e-mail the seller and ask the actual postage charge by giving the seller you zip code.
I have sold many pieces of pottery on ebay and other miscellaneous items. I bought a practically brand-new bread machine at a thrift shop for $3 and sold it on eBay for $60 plus $15 shipping. I got a good feedback from the buyer.
WooHoo
Look here!
Rosa Traum has roots!
NOW for Rosa Traum or Rosa Zauber I would have paid what I paid for each one of mine ;-)
Brigitte
woodspirit,
we just jokingly call it evilbay because it is so addictive ;-)
congrats, nikki!
Oh ! Now addictive I understand, lol. My neighbor told me she was addicted to eBay. She bought her Toyota there and had just bought a leaf blower for about 1/3 retail. They both work great.
All I can say is at least you people got something for your money..
I sent off money to a member of Dave's for seeds and cuttings and got nothing..
I even mentioned it to her a few times and was told..oh well, I was not even on her list..
I am sorry you didn't have a good experience, Earthling.
Most seed and postage transactions that go on between Dave's Members are above and beyond expectations. Please don't let this one experience let you down.
~Nikki
earthling, that's awful. i'm sorry you didn't have a good experience. perhaps he/she is not a member anymore?
Earthling, I have some cuttings that have been in water and are about ready to pot up if you would like some of my extra's.
I just got some 4 O'clocks seeds from mystic today and she doesn't even want postage. She signed it mystic at DG and I read it at first as mysticat so I was scratching my head and wondering, "who is mysticat?"
They're orange. Can anyone tell me if they are related to Evening Primrose?
Earthling I have some brugs cuttings I have extra of.let me know what you are looking for .have all kinds of seeds.
Thank you all for your generous offers...but I have plenty of brugs now..I just wanted to let you know that if you get cuttings that are too small, at least you are getting something, however disappointing it may be and not being told you just dont 'suck up enough' to get anything.
Kris