well crazy as a March Hare... wonder where that saying comes from... perhaps awaiting the slow comming of spring... but till the brugs go out... they are inside under the lights... some times I get die back.. and will then put them in the window for sun.. nothing stops die back after cutting it back .. like a dose of the warmth the real sun provides... but not all need it ... some do just fine under the MH lights... Gordon
another photo of this bunch of Brugs.. and Milk & Honey blooming
well a few more of the healthy ones... taken from 12 ft above the plants..
then there are the ones at the east end of the house... they get a sunny window to go along with their MH light ... and do much better ... although none are blooming today... many stand at 8 ft already.... Gordon
the brugs do seem to have good weeks and not so good inside... in the winter.. as they start looking weak... getting a bit too much die back... they are put in more favorable places... some turn right around... here's one that was starting to lose a bunch of limbs... the wilted parts were cut off and it was given front row center under the lights... and stopped the wilting and started lookin real strong... OH I also told them they were going outside tomorrow... just to get them to forget about winter ... here's a good responder .. after severe wilt.. Gordon
I love that picture from above. Too funny. I bet you can't wait to get them all outside on your roof top slice of heaven, Gordon. I am visualizing ahead to a great and glorious summer when it will be so beautiful!
My Charles Grimaldi has been doing that all winter. It is also the only one I pruned. I don't know whether to prune the dead stuff down to healthy tissue so I think I'll wait until I take my Brugs our of the greenhouse.
It won't be long and your rooftop garden will be a beautiful site to behold once again.
Love your hardwood floors!
Kelley and Frannie...
Well thanks... I too am looking foward to a banner year up topside...come summer...
Frannie... thanks.. I too love the floors... Brazilian Cherry.. about twice as hard as oak... I got a pallet of it from Brazildirect.com.. it doesn't hide the dust like the old wall to wall... but it makes for cleanup after poting much easier... it does make a nice potting room floor... and goes with the cherry woodwork I'd done some 15 years ago....and complements the other woods.. like the ebony and book matched cocobola dinning room table ..and the cabinet with the 3" thick wallnut top and the birch base... you saw in the previeous picture.. although i should have at least closed it's doors... but the piles of receipts inside and spread out next to it on the floor awaiting my billing speaks to my messy natue and slow accounting practices ..anyway... it is protected by the bamboo over plastic mats you saw.. right under the plants.. protecting it from over spray and over watering.... Gordon
