This is my little tropical paradise in Toledo, Ohio. The brugs around the pool are last years cuttings, I over wintered them in a bubbler bucket, then into standards. The fragrance in the evening is very strong and enjoyable. Hope you enjoy!
Diamond Dan
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How about some Toledo Palms... they all bloom at once
and of course, Golden Lady she's two years old now
Thumbs up, Dan!! Those standards look great. I really like the under planting, what plant did you use? Normally I use impatiens to under plant my brugs, but I like the look of your pots.
Your Golden Lady Looks great too. I just got her this past spring so it will be next year before I see blooms on mine. I can't wait, I have heard so much about how great her fragrance is.
Hi Dave, thanks! this year I started a lot of plants by seeds, the under plantings are zinnia's, the profusion series, I planted all five colors, white, cherry, orange, fire, and apricot. My pink brugs were underplanted with the cherry, the yellow brugs with white and around the tropicana canna's I used the orange. apricot around my pink canna's and pink roses. They will be used again next year, this plant is a keeper! early to flower, flowers all summer, and I had no powdery mildew which is common for zinnia's
Dan, those are very pretty, I especially llike the yellow and blue combination.
Enjoyed your pics. Sure looks as if you have that ole "greenthumb".
Wow, Diamond Dan, MOST impressive!!! I love your chairs, too, I want a purple one...
Thank you very much! I started gardening two years ago and all my advice came from fellow Dave Gardeners. DG rocks!!
Looking at your way cool set up makes me want to have a party - at your house! Lol. Thank you for sharing.
Tussee
Here's a royal flush!! over forty blooms with forty or so buds, but hardly any leaves. I came home one windy day to find this plant at the bottom of the pool! didn't seem to mind, although I hadn't chlorinated for a while, so it didn't bother the plant. I'm happy, it smells great! Oh, by the way these are unknown yellows. But very close to Dr. Suess
Tussee, You are more than welcome to come over and party! however you won't be alone, my house is a favorite place to float on a hot day and enjoy the scenery.
Thanks
Diamond Dan
Yyyyiiiippppeeee, I'll bring chips!
WOW...love your Palms!!! And the brugs are gorgeous. You sure know how to live out there in Ohio. OHIO? OH, I thought it was Mexico!!!
Ok Dan, got some questions for you...
We're in the same zone. How do you overwinter your brugs? Leave them in the pots? Do your pots have drainage holes in bottoms?
How do you maintain a single stalk - Mine are so wide with multiple stalks that I don't know how I am going to get them in the house (they are planted in the ground and a major pain in the patootie to dig up)
I read on your first post that you put cuttings in a bubbler. Could you elaborate on that!!
Hope I didn't scare you off with all my questions!! LOL
Couldn't wait to get up today and check my messages, I love compliments! I take them well -blush blush ah shucks. Thank you every one!
Sarv48, hey you are on the right track, it takes two years to get standards, and they are real easy. First year grow your brugs as tall as you can, then in the fall, before the frost, pick the straightest tallest branches and cut them off as close to the pot as you can, then completely defoliate the branch, cut off any side shoots and put them in a bucket of water with a air stone hooked up to an aqairiium pump, the bubbles keep the water fresh. Then leave them until next spring. In the meantime they will grow roots out the bottom of the branch. I kept mine on the cooler side around 55 degrees. You may have to add some water every once in a while.
All my other brugs (the bush type) I cut off all the leaves, flowers, stop watering, and spray real good with 3 in 1 spray (insecticide) then bring them in, in thier own buckets, in around 55 degrees for the rest of the winter, I will periodically give them some water.
GardenGuyKin, thank you, last spring I put in a sprinkler system with 4 garden zones in the back yard. I figured that out the first year after watering all this everyday. It's great, I just have to water the containers and that takes around 20 minutes or so everyday, sooo... I have more time to enjoy, but I can't set still for five minutes anyway. Next year I think I might put in a chemical injector into the sprinkler system and make my life still easier, I'll be able to fertilize everything through the sprinkler.
AlohaHoya if I lived where you do I could enjoy this all year! you lucky duck! I have seen your pictures too, you live in paradise, thanks for the compliment!
Here's a picture of Adora she's two years old and over ten feet, picture was taken on a foggy day.
Beautiful, Dan. I love the Palms and all your Brugs with Zinnias
What a colorful place. Just so much fun. Those blue buckets really look so good with your yellow brugs. And what a kick I got out of your Toledo Palms. LOL I bet you are the talk of Ohio!
Dan your yard , brugs and palms are lovely. What a beautiful serene yard you have.
Your yard looks great Dan. I hadn't thought of putting zinnia's in the bottom as an under planting. I am still trying to figure out what works best and I may have to try the zinnia's next year.
Dott
Thanks everyone! your compliments and good words make it all worth it!
Diamond Dan
Your yard says "fun" to me and all your plants are so pretty. Thanks for sharing all your pictures with us. I know it takes work to keep things looking pretty like you do.
Dan, I love your yard. It is so bright and exciting to look at. I'm so glad you are learning so much here at DG....I am too. :-)
Is that the GL I sent you? She looks great.
Donna
Hi Donna! thanks, yes it is, I received this cutting from you two years ago and it's cuttings have been given to many fellow DGer's across the states. She's is a real show stopper, two major flushes this year, each over fifty flowers. My yard is a work in progress, each year I add a little more. I'm already thinking of next years projects, some plants will go and others will come.
Dan
Dan,
I'm so glad she has done well for you, and that she has given of herself again to share with other brug lovers.
I'm sorry to say, but I had to take my GL out. :-( She had gotten so big, and her trunk was so thick, that it was getting too big for the area it was in. I did take some cuttings of her, and she is now in a pot. My garden is very small, so I can only have a few large items, before it looks like a jungle. lol
Sorry, but the picture you posted didn't come through, will come back later to see if it shows up.
Donna
A picture of Golden Lady from Donna
Dan
Hey Dan, she looks familiar. lol
Wow, is she a healthy plant. Thanks for the baby pictrure.
Donna
Dan, great yard. Love the pool and chairs, looks like a good time. Love all the brugs and the zinias make a great under plant.
Thanks Linda, this year I planted alot of fragrant plants too, night jasmine, rain master petunia, heliotrope, reseda, dianthus, stock, some roses and some evening primerose to name a few. So along with the brugs the evenings are really fragrant. Also this year was the first for my plumeria to bloom, the one that bloomed smelled like coconut. Last spring I received a cutting in trade of a brug called snowcone, wow! what a great fragrance, I think that I will be starting several cuttings for next year, and perhaps into standards for the following year. Gardening is fun!
Dan
wow, what a lovely and colorful garden and pool area you have. your brugs sure are great.....
Maybe I missed it but I was wondering did your chair come already painted yellow, blue and salmon or did you paint them. They really set off your tropical paradise and with all your brugs, It is very nice. I bet you do get a lot of compliments on your pool area.
2pugdogs, the chairs come that way! they are the plastic resin that everyone has. And they were gifts from my sister in law for my birthday, she bought them at a hardware store. On the back it is stamped Syroco, I googled them and thier website is down or they are out of business, but there is a lot of companies to choose from for colored adirondack chairs, all kind of prices and qualities. The chairs received many compliments, and they really do add a lot of fun color to the area. Thanks
Dan
I have seen them here but the only colors I have seen are dark green and off white. So maybe the colors will make it here next summer, I really like them.
Hi Diamond. Just lovely! My pool is set up a lot like yours with the pool house being at the end. I do not have a lot of trees around the pool area because of the mess thee make (in the pool). We do have a privacy fence. When you put your brugs out for the season are they in the hot sun around the pool? I know it gets pretty hot around ours. I want to put things like this around our pool but I'm afraid they'll get cooked.
Thanks,
Dawn
Hi Dawn, brugs weren't alway's by the pool, just recently, and your'e right! they are messy, they have started to clog up the skimmer, I won't be putting them by the pool next year, looked kinda cool, but just for some occasions maybe. I usually have them by the porch windows, (see photo)
they like it real well in this area, and I like the fragrance in the eveining coming in the windows.
My brugs have alway's done well around the pool, and so do the other tropicals, I water pretty frequently though.
Dan
They really look good there too. Very impressive.
So they get full hot sun all day? I just thought they were a little more tender than that. I guess I should quit babying mine. I can't even bring myself to take a cutting of the only one I have. You said you keep yours in a bubbler over winter. Do you not pot them up after they have established good roots? The reason why I'm asking is if I kept mine in the bubbler all winter I wont have room to root anything else. Thank you for your time. Your pics have inspired me!
Dawn
