They have put on a show for me this past week that is unsurpassed in the number of blooms. I just got an inexpensive little camera today and wanted to share them with you.
First one is an unknown yellow. It bloomed a couple of times before and was a true lemon yellow. When it bloomed this time, temps were considerably cooler and it turned the dark orange you see here.
Barb
Next is Insignis Pink. This is a cutting from the first one I ever bought.
Unknown peach - a cutting from ChiliHead.
Beeeeuuutiful,, thanks for sharing. Elaine
Dr. Seuss - Thanks Dan!!
Rosamond.. if I had to pick one single as a favorite.. she'd be IT!!
Charles Grimaldi
Front of the house looking north.. lots and lots of brugs!!
And last, but by no means least, KBS with a bloom of unk yellow stuck in there somehow. KBS was from Janice and has become the largest of my brugs - and the most pest/disease free of them all.
I hope you enjoy them.
Barb
Amazing!! You certainly know how to grow brugs!! Are your visitors shocked by such beauty.
Judy
Good for you!! They all look so great!!
Bonnie
Looks like the brug hit parade! Your camera sure takes great pictures, Barb!
Your little camera takes great pictures. Your brugs are wonderful.
Linda
Wow there girl. That is really a show. Just wish I was there to smell all that aroma at one time. Hard to pick just one as the best but I bet Ambrosia really was a looker when she was flushing.
I like them all. Good pictures with the new camera.
Great blooms. Enjoyed the pics, thanks for sharing.
Nice show. I'm glad to hear such good things about KBS. Fall really does bring out the best in the brugs.
Dott
Wow Barb!!! Fantastic pictures! That Unknown Yellow is BEAUTIFUL... I love that orange. Beautiful show.. thank you for sharing.
So many beautiful pictures of lovely blooms........it somehow makes all the work worthwhile.
Looking good Barb !!
Thanks again everyone! Six weeks ago I was more than ready to trash the lot of them after treating and feeding and treating over and over again for both spider mites and broad mites... a MASSIVE infestation of broad mites. Then it was the grasshoppers and all the while the unbearable heat that called for watering both before and after work. I said "one final treatment and if I see any evidence of mites, they go to the burn pile"!! Fate took a hand and the only ones to be trashed were my four Butterfly plants and small duplicates that didn't grow well. I fertilized with full-strength MG two Saturdays in a row and what you see is the result. I'm happy with them now, but intend to scale back to ONE plant of those I like best from now on. They are too labor intensive - not to mention expensive - to maintain for someone on as restrictive a budget as moi. Also, I'm a renter, so I have to keep everything in pots.
Well... that's my brug life in a nutshell! I'm waiting for Judy to "tell all" regarding this bubbler roots and all thing.
One of a kind.. yep.. that's what I'm gonna have... sure is... ;)
Barb,
Mites winter over in soil, so I figured I best get rid of the soil in my pots and would need to repot any way. I started doing research on the bucket of brugs, taking long cuttings and keeping them over-winter in a bucket with a bubbler. Asked Kin to post the outcome of his doing this and he said the one he did had a late start and he wouldn't do it again.
Then I remembered someone wintered-over some by washing out the soil and putting them in a bubbler.... no mites, much easier to store, less space. I conversed with the person and was told they did fine but had to have dead roots cleaned out from inbetween the larger ones 2-3 times over the winter because they rotted. To prepare them nitially, they cut off all the fine roots leaving only the larger ones.
The person went on to tell me the way they were doing it now is to trim the roots and pot up in a smaller pot for the winter, that way they got a quicker start and were faster to bloom in the spring.
For me personaly, I'm going to do the bucket of brugs with roots but may pot up in Feb or so, depends upon life. I just want to do everything possible to prevent having mites next summer,
but truth of the matter is... it was due to the extreme temperatures and drought that stressed the brugs which in turn produced something in their system which enabled the mites to multiple like crazy and the weather conditions killed out all the mites natural enemies, leaving them to munch happily on our brugs.
Judy
Well now... that's a lot of options to consider. I'd much rather lean toward that which someone has had success with than experiment just to experiment. I already have the bubbler setup and an extra large pump. Early this summer I picked up three of those big blue tubs with rope handles that you and Dan have. H2O2 is readily available at wally world. So... I think all I need to know is how do you plan to sit/stand them in the tubs? I was thinking maybe something like a piece of fencing (4" x4" squares) bent over the tops of the tubs to keep them upright. What about keeping them off the bottom? Some form of grate? (I'm thinking cooling racks for baked goods here.) Will you strip all the foliage off or will it die back naturally?
Gosh.. the more questions I ask, the more I have to ask. Be patient with me, pls.. I'm a gardener in progress!!
;~)
Thanks, Judy!
We'll just stumble through it together. You've gotten father along in thinking about the details than I have. I don't think they used anything, at least they didn't say they did, so that might be why some of the smaller roots rotted and had to be trimmed. I've got some tall tubs, kinda like kitchen trash containers, but heavier. I was still going to take the precaution of weighting the buckets down with something like concrete block caps/half solids, to make sure they don't tip over, no matter what. I have English Bulldogs and sometime we get goofy, doing the Bully Butt Wiggle ... that could knock them over. lol lol
Holding them up off the bottom, $ tree has some plastic organizers which are kinda woven looking, that could be turned upside-down so the roots could rest on them.
I'm going to strip and trim back the limbs
Barb,
Look at how the brug cuttings on this GW thread are trimmed. That's how I'm planning on doing mine, but I have such big, multiple trunk plants, so it's going to the a challenge. lol lol
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/brug/msg1012321123065.html You'll need to scroll past the pictures which show the bubbler construction before you'll find the picture of the trimmed cuttings.
Judy
Judy, you find the greatest threads and better yet, you share them with all of us..thanks so much and good luck with whatever method you try..
Kris
Good Going Barb!! They look wonderful!! I really know that you will enjoy your camera, it takes such good pictures!!
Barb, Wonderful blooms, you are my inspiration.....watch out for next year.....I hope. I wish I had more room for my plants. I have such limited space. Going to try some cuttings and plant them up early next spring.
If you have any extra cuttings, my limited space can always expand. (My DH will just have to move over.) lol.
Marie
