Dr. Suess continues to be one of my favorite brugs. I took this picture today to show the difference in todays blooms in constast with blooms that had previously opened. Just turns a beautiful antique gold after a day or so.
Dr Suess
Lovely picture! thanks for sharing!
Bea
Very nice! I am continually amazed to see the difference that a couple of hundred miles makes in the appearance of brug blooms. I cut my last Dr. Seuss blooms off yesterday in preparation for the hard freeze we had on the mountain last night.. they were a solid medium orange. The first flush was yellow like yours, Jim. I like the Dr.. he's dependable.
Barb
Thanks, yes Barb it is dependable for sure.
My Seuss is still in bloom (unless it got done in last night - I didn't get out there this morning before I had to come to work). It was my first brug and this was season 5 for me. It starts yellow and turns dark gold for me. It is now a tree about 10 ft and will be cut back and stored in the garage until next spring. It is one of the few that I will keep for next year.
I have seen so many pictures of brugs that are simply beautiful. I've never grown one but have it on my wish list for next spring. Are there purple ones???????
Oh........naughty me.....
Hi I'm Cece from WI. new to most of the threads on DG. I can never seem to get out of the few I watch long enough to visit any where else........But this one will be watched.
Hi Cece and welcome to the addiction.
Next spring remind me and I will send you some rotted cuttings of several that I have.
I hope I can remember to remind you. Someone want to help me remember to remind Georgiaredclay????? Thanks
And remind me to send rooted cuttings instead of rotted cuttings also. LOL
Cece the blooms are pretty and they are really a treat to see them in person but then you add the scent and it really is intoxicating. Something you have to experience in person.
Oh I can't wait til spring now. I kinda fiigured you meant rooted and not rotted. lol I've heard such wonderful things about them and I heard their fragrance is something to die for. You are such a nice person to offer me some. I haven't anything to trade seeing as my oldest garden is two years old and the majority of the 13 were put in this past summer. I've a total of 13 now. Now I'm working on thoughts for container gardens.
cece if you ever find a purple one you would be famouse LOL
I looked them up in my encyclopedia of garden plants. I see they're either white or yellowish pink. But one can hope can't they? I do love the color purple.
Hi ALL!!! Hey, Cece---another Wisconsinite here---I, too, have no brugs as of the moment and I would dearly love to take ANY brug cuttings that don't have a home (for the price of postage???)...AFTER Cece gets "1st choice", of course!
And, Cece, I think that growing tropicals in a container is a fab idea cause that's what I do with my EE's, banana, castor beans, hibiscus and cannas. The "fun" part is hauling the pots in and out of the house but it's definately worth doing!
Jan
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They are white, pink and yellow. Some variantions of each exist. Orange would be another.
Jan I will put you on my list for next spring. I'll Dmail you.
Hey JanLynn! I also have EE's and cannas and a hibiscus. The hibiscus I keep pooted up and the darn thing is blooming like crazy at the moment. All summer outdoors and maybe a bloom here and there. Bring it in and I have 5 bllooms at once. Go figure. My EE's and cannas I dig dry and store. Haven't much room to put plants now that I'm a grandmom. Playpens and baby toys take up alot of room.
Georgiaredclay Which are the most fragrant? I read inmy book the white ones are. Oh oh I'm so in a hurry for spring now. You won't forget will ya?
Thanks Georgiaredclay!!!
Looking forward to spring hopefully will make the winter season blahs go faster!
Cece
Are you a new grandmom? If so, congratulations!!! And, between you and me, we won't let Georgiaredclay "forget"... What kind of Hibiscus do you have, the hardy or tropical? If you'd like I could root some of my Red Shield Hibiscus for you. It's a tropical so it's in for the winter. I have never gotten blooms on it tho I absolutely love the burgundy foliage. I probably haven't gotten blooms cause I've been pretty lax at feeding it but that is my next goal!!!
JanLynn Well kinda new My one and only grandchild is 13 months old. I take care of her from 2pm til 7pm whilst Mom and Dad work. The other grandmom picks her up and takes her home (she lives upstairs to the kids) All in all it works out pretty good.
I have a tropical hibiscus. No idea of the name but its a red/orange colored bloom. If you want to root some cuttings I certainly won't argue. Totally up to you. If its a plant and it will live...I'm game for anything or anyone.
Where about S. Milwaukee are you??? I'm on the southside of Waukesha.
Cherie
Well kinda a new grandmom
OOOOOH!!! Red/Orange Hib...I like the color that I'm envisioning! So, if you're game, Cherie (beautiful name by the way), so am I. I will start cuttings of mine tonite! By the end of November we can/could trade cuttings...sound good to you?
The city of South MIlwaukee is sometimes confused with the "south side of Milwaukee". The city of South Milwaukee is 'bordered' by the cities of Oak Creek, St. Francis and Cudahy. To just give you a general idea Bucyrus Erie is located here, Grant Park (4 blocks from my home) and we're in close proximity to General Mitchell airport.
That's a wonderful arrangement that you have taking care of the baby...all of you profit-especially the little one!
TTYL,
Jan
Sounds good to me too. I will take cuttings of mine tonite also. How many? (I've never done this before., only annuals I want to try and keep) 3 or 4? I'm so excited to be mqaking all these new friends!
Uh oh ya'll aren't into EE's way up there are you. I guess I will throw in a couple of Illistris if ya'll don't have it. I call it the Elephant herd it spreads so fast
To me the white brug does have the strongest scent. Now they have different scents. Some smell like baby powder to me and others smell like lemon joy dish detergent.
Hi Cherie,
3-4 cuttings sounds perfect! The people at DG are the nicest that I've met-so willing to ENABLE us with new plants, etc.! I am so excited about having brugs next year! We just got a new neighbor last month and she is already asking me garden questions and people at work do the same---
A favorite quote:
"...an addiction to gardening is not all bad when you consider all the other choices in life..."
Jan
We Northeners don't let a "little" cold/snow/ice get in our way of tropical gardening...LOL!!! I don't like/want my gardens to look like everyone else's here...I refer to those as "cooky cutter" gardens. I want DRAMATIC, I want GAUDY, I want TROPICAL, I want "OOOMPH"!!! Don't want "much", do I?!?! So sure, throw in some of those EE's too. The Illistris with the Brugs...hmmm, anything else (greedy bugger aren't I!!!)???
Someday, I hope to be a "transplanted" northener by ya'all (LOL) and then I'll be an enabler!!!!
Thank you so much, Georgiaredclay, for your wonderful southern generosity!
Jan
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Ditto for me all the way around. I'll take whatever anyone doesn't want. I like to be enabld and DH can't complain about the Steins run all the time then.
I'm eclectic I guess. I want one of EVERYTHING. I have no pattern, no design, no plans other than digging up an area where I want color. Then I just buy what I like. I have 25 containers that I fill every year and still never have enough. When DH bought this place in June of 2004 there were no flowers. Gaudy ugly green barrel bushes and some mature trees but no flowers. We weren'r married yet, but my two younger kids and I were living with him. I wanted 4 flower beds 2 in back and 2 in front. I now have (drum roll please) 13 flower beds and ideas for 2 more next spring. Think I'm addicted?JanLynn have you heardof Melinda Myers? My hubby and I met her in Feb last year. He asked her how to make me stop. Just asked stop what...he replied stopbuying andplanting flowers and she put her hand onhis shoulders and said Dear man gardening is a disease in which there is NO cure for so support her and let'er go. LOL. Its getting harder to get hime to let go of much lawn anymore. So the last bed, I bought the plants and said where do I go with these? He figured he may as well let me rip up somemorelawn I was goping to do it anyway.
I like gaudy, ooomph, dramatic, tropical and show stopper so I guess I'm in good company.
Georgiaredclay thanks again. Anything you can donat to charity is certainly appreciated and if it comes to me from a fellow DG'er I won't have to listen to complaints An elephant herd is just what I need.
Cherie
georgiaredclay Where is lagrange within the state? I have a BIL that lives (see if I can spell this right) in Walthourville? He claims he's about an hour from the coast. Just interested.
I told hubby I was going to get some brugs cuttings and a herd of elephants. Man you should have seen his face on that one. A herd of WHAT????? I just tell him Dear dear man, don't worry about it they won't eat much.
JanLynn I got 3 cuttings off the hibiscus. Everything else has buds on them. I've been trying to upload a pic of one of the blooms but it just won't work. When DS gets home this afternoon he'll fix it for mr and I'll show you the color of the blooms okay?
How beautiful Jim..How did I miss this post!!..Gorgeous...Jeanne
Thanks
Lagrange is located off interstate 85 about half way between Atlanta Ga. and Montgomery Al. Never heard of the town you mentioned. You sure of the spelling. It must be down in south Ga. to be close to the coast.
No not realsure of the spelling got it off a christmas card in Tims idea of handwriting. Thats what it looks like to me. I was just vcurious.....not nosey.