full of what you love??? Please post it!!
I remember when my yard was full of color!
Do you remember when your yard was ......................
that's gorgeous, kell. it hasn't happened in my yard yet though.
Lordy! I can't take pictures like you can Kell....but here's mine. I just can't wait for spring!!!!
Heres my biggest accomplishment last year...this plant now has a bunch of seed pods rippening in my breezeway
You bet kell, that is the only thing that keeps me going, waiting for it to get warm so I can move all these plants outside.
KBYella.
Can't wait for spring. Snowing like crazy here!
*sigh*
Bitter/sweet memories.
That same area sure doesn't look at all the same right now! :(
Yes Yes yes!!! I remember & cruze through my few pics of the bloomers from last year just to help get through what is seeming like a very long & dreary winter.
Yesterday I was watering & puttering in my tiny seeding house & my Blackeye Susan vine has sprouted new growth & was climbing up anything it could reach. I had a sad Azalea tucked under a shelf & I moved it to let it get better water & it had blooms on it. All my baby Brugs are looking ok, except a few look very peaked (nearly white) on top. Don't know what to do about that? They didn't do that last year.
I think there is a light at the end of the tunnel, although we don't get spring until late April, early May. The plants are showing signs of the promise of Spring. I'm being a good girl & not starting any seeds until it's time. I always jump the gun! Then things get leggy.
Here's a "fluffy" white one.
C'mon Spring!
Super Pictures....really beautiful!!! Guy...those are terrific colors!
jutz...beautiful...
Does this count Kell? Joan
Hey, whatever you love in your garden, not just brugs!!
Wow Joan, that is sure pretty! These pictures are all making me think I want more brugs, not less! I have been trying to cut back too. Such bountiful blooms.
Most of these in this picture was given to me by Susie about 4 years ago. Thanks again Susie.
I found the night setting on the camera.It requires a very steady hand or a tripod.
Jim, those look great!
Kell, I love that passiflora!
All yours are blooming so short, Jim. Looks great. So neat and orderly. That is what I am lacking in my yard these days. Order!
That is so cool Kattamos. Kin does neat night shots also. What a great photo!
Thanks Susie! This is one I bought last summer. I never planted it so it is still in its gallon can and growing into everything. I need a permanent place to stick it.
Kell that color is beautiful.
Jim how do you get them to bloom so short or is this spring. You have a beautiful garden. I realy like the order.
Kattamos that is a beautiful night shot mine just look like I let it get to late to take pictures.
Calalily and Kell East Texas and 10,000 roses are calling you. Joan
I miss the aroma of my brugs in the morning and evening.
Thanks to all for your comments on mine. Everyone the pictures are awesome. I really don't have them that short any more. That was taken a few years back. I guess most of them came from Susie and I think she just had them trained to bloom when she sent them to me. I remember the first one she sent me and it was my first was Dr Suess and when it bloomed and the aroma in the yard in the evening at that time hooked me big time. I started taking things like roses up and putting more brugs in. I am ready for spring time here and ready to see some beauty in person.
Here's Dr. Suess
I am ready for spring also!! At least so far it has been a mild winter.
I took some pictures to show, but they're on the other computer. I won't say anything about how good my yard smells now or mention that about 10 brugs are blooming or that Rosenquartz, KBS and Butterfly are loaded with blooms........I wouldn't do that to y'all.
So nice Patricia. I am ready!!! I wish we were there already!
Great Dr. Suess!!
Hey Susie, you are so BAD!!!
Hi Kell,
Beautiful pictures!
Yes!! Suzie and I are lucking out with what appears to be early spring- I walked outside last night, and the fragrance really hit..
I found a Sanguinea Red this week..I broke down and bought it, since I have been unable to grow them from seed.
Rj
Calalilly I wouldn't do that either, I don't have any BUT if I did I wouldn't say a word about how lovely they are, or how great they look, and smell.
Oh my Bruglover!!! Your yard is too pretty for words. I am jealous!! What a combo too. Perfectly done. Is that Alocasia Odora there in front??
Really Doris, isn't Susie so mean. LOL
I am zone 9, Kin and I am not sitting bloom pretty yet. I think it is the zone 10 people that are so lucky!!!
Hi Rj!! I am so glad to see you on the Brug Forum again. I can't wait to see pics of your new yard. Any buds on your new red sang?
Hi-
Very small ones. I've never seen the sang before- It's quite a bit different looking.
I did snap these this morning.
Kell, when it gets too hot here- mabe I'll have to ship the sang west...!
Another.of..I think it's Day break. I got it at a nursery that only sells to the public once a year- It said Brugmansia....It loves to bloom. This is one of the Brugmansias the Pecan tree fell on during Rita. I have since threatened the other Brugmansias with falling pecan trees!!
Rj
Not even frosty nights can keep a Monster from blooming-the fool thing. It is a bit pale though. Behind is the carolina jessamine doing its thing. The front yard is humming with bees. The giant lavender is a big draw too.
Ooooh, yu'all killing me here! They are all gorgeous!!! I don't think you want me to post my white flowers...lol! Now Rj if you need to ship the sang west just going a bit further north! Now when do I start putting in my orders?????
:) Donna
You mean you aren't buying your new baby its own air conditioner? LOL I hope you get a deep red one Rj. So pretty! They are not quite a gaudy as regular brugs, but en masse they make a pretty picture. Your yellow is so bright for this time of year. My Big Yellow is blooming like crazy but they are anemic looking. Poor you having to go thru that hurricane. Glad you are recovering.
Frogs, is that Donna's Monster brug? Sure is floriferous!! That Carolina Jessamine is something else. Does it have a great scent?
Hehehahah... We can start sending it around like those teddy bears they use to fly around in the airplanes from the kindergarten class, stamping it with official passport stamps revealing every where its been.
Now don/t laugh Kell. But I have indeed entertained a swampcooler - window unit type of airconditioner for the green house. To deter me, I simply went through my electric and gas bills - which registered a big NO!. Ive read that they really don/t like the heat. We have to try though! I/ll put it next to my easter lilly vine ( Beaumontia grandiflora (murtonii) ) although Im suspecting that it is not murtnonii in which case he might have to go with the red sang west...!!
Rj
Oh money, how it always interferes so rudely with our desires. LOL
Hey, has your Beaumontia grandiflora flowered for you??
http://toptropicals.com/catalog/uid/Beaumontia_murtonii.htm
I got the grandiflora 3 years ago. And that sucker never has flowered for me. It always looked robust for a small plant that it is, but this winter it is going South. I am desperate for it to bloom before it leaves this earth.
Where did you find yours??
I just got mine from Tops as well last week. From what I understand the Beaumontia grandiflora (murtonii) is a heat tolerant, continuous bloomer found in numerous Thailand Gardens- The flower is not as trumpet shaped- which is the one I ordered- the regular Beaumontia grandiflora , is from India s cooler climates (wherever that may be) and reportedly blooms once during the winter. I was reading through the comments section and from Thailand a gentleman obviously familiar with the Tops folks, corrected them on the listing of the vine murtonii-- that indeed it appeared to be Beaumontia grandiflora and that they should not picture the two together. Soooo...I am wondering which one I really have - having noticed the murtonii listing removed now fromt he site..(Im not upet or anything) just trying to sleuth. I really like theyre nursery - and I believe they try hard to be honest. And....Finally - YES - it is covered with buds. I will take a photo of it and email you. Perhaps if you have time - will you send me a picture of your vine and leaves...I have no idea what Ill be looking for until we see them -- right?
When I say it is going south I mean the deep south. LOL. When I go out to the hoophouse I will see if it has any leaves left.
So it came from Tops with buds??? Oh WOW. I think that is the place where Donna knows the owners. I trust Donna picks 100%!
ack! i know "pat austin" is not one of your fave roses, kell....i should have taken a photo of her blooms last week. she had a few and they were so pretty i cut them for hubby's aunt who's living with us.
Kell, it is my "monster" KBS that went from 1 to 17 feet in about 18 months. The thing never stops blooming but I do need to figure a way to trim it back a bit. I have sighed over Donna's monster a time or too. The jessamine has a pleasant smell. Not overpowering like the night blooming jasmine. Between it and the brugs and the lavenders and the plectranthus (LOL) it is quite odiferous in my front yard. Oh and the artemesia too!!
How beautiful all of your Brug Garden look!!..I can't wait till my reach the maturity that all of yours have...gorgeous....Jeanne
Frogs, I bet your brugs get so huge where you are. So pray tell, which plectranthus is odiferous? I bought one last year from the Berkeley Botanical Gardens and it smells so strongly of oregano. Not pleasant really! What does yours smell like?
OHHHH Annapet, was it beautiful? Mine is going its 3rd year here so it best shape up and get interesting or it dies. LOL!
Jeanne, brugs get mature fast so you will have lots of flowers soon!!
Most of them are odiferous. Most have an herbal smell- some very pleasant. The vick plant smells like, you guessed it!! Vicks Vapo-Rub. Lois Woodhull smells like the liquid that is expelled from an old cat. It is moved away from the house in the summer. They sell it as "Doggone" as it is supposed to repell animals. Most of them have lovely flowers. Mona lavender is my favorite for foliage. Dad has one in Napa and it is just gorgeous for him there. Take a look in the Plantfiles, lots of gorgeous plecs. Wooly has my favorite flowers. The stalks are huge. I have lost count of the cultivars I have.
I have a little weis poussaine (sp) with a bud. The whole plant is smaller than the bud. Poor thing. I have never had one bloom that small. It is maybe 4" tall. Butterfly was about 6 feet before she deigned to bloom. Has not stopped yet though.