Lucille hoping they arrive for you tomorrow. Be watching for your mail man so they don't sit in the box
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Thank you all! I will certainly be watching for the post,like a hawk. My prize Brugs will not be left out on the stoop for even one second♥
You get to be a sissy Cathy thinblood♥ Safe trip to you and yours.I, on the other hand am out looking for catnip for the cat,it is growing under the snow and I do need those warm thoughts tonight. We just filled the oil tank to the tune of $610 and at these temps,it might not even last a month,grrrrr☻I just hope those Brugs are safe and warm in a toasty postal office..........
Thanks Lucille!
I understand about the nippy, it is a definite must for our guys too, the only problem being that I have it in a hanging basket and neighbor cats still projectile launch at it, trying to knock it down.
Here's hoping for a warmer wnter and lower fuel prices!
I'll check in tonight at my sis's, hopefully to see everyone got their brugs!
LOL Cathy! I have a visual of the projectile cats clawing at the hanging basket☻. Gee, I might try that in the spring. I never thought of a basket for catnip♣
I hope most of you will receive you brugs by today (was hoping for yesterday as they were shipped on Monday via priority mail).
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Mine are here! Thanks so much. These are a wonderful addition to my gardens. Many people are going to enjoy your gift Donna.
chris
I must run out and check on my mail-box. Congrats, Cathy and Chris.
Happy Holidays to you Kristin, Donna.
I hope too the rest of us will receive yours soon too.
Kim
Jingle bells, Jinging along the way......tadatalala (I can't hold a tune in the bucket, but that doesn't keep me from singing). lol - for Santa's has stopped by early this year!!!!! Horay!!!
Thank you, Donna, and Kristi.
Kim
Happy for all of you,but still waiting,waiting,worry,worry. It is like waiting for a new pet☺
Ok, Lucille, those of us received the packages 'cause we're closer to Kristi. So yours should be in soon. Has it snowed any more there?
BTW; how far are you from Pitsburge? My girls occassionally spent the Holidays up their with Grand parents and relatives.
Kim
OH I Can give it a try Lily....Ahem....
♫♪♫♪Dashing through the ☼snow☼♫♪On a One Horse Open Sleigh♫♪♫ Over The Hills He goes ♫♪ My Mailman came today♫♪Brugs Brugs Brugs♫♪Brugs Brugs Brugs♫♪Oh What Fun it is To Have this many Brugs my wayì♫♫♫
Thank you Donna and Kristi! My goodness, I 'bout fell over when I unwrapped them. And so many of them too! What can I say, I'm so over-joyed to have these. I'm headed to plantfiles to look them all up. My yard's gonna stop traffic next year!
Help me out please with some of the initials on a couple: MM is Magic Mountain, right?
DD is Day Dreams, right? FEM?? I don't know this one??
I appreciate these so much and the contest was fun with the anticipation building each day!
♥♥♥Kisses & Hugs♥♥♥
Deborah
Lucille when they arrive please put them in a warm bright spot in about 3" of water to perk them back up. If any parts are mushy from being packed in damp paper and getting cold, cut that part off then put them in the water for a day. Pot them up ASAP after that. Keeping my fingers crossed they are well and will arrive tomorrow
FEM is Forever Morr
MEM is Miss Emily Mc Kenzie
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Oh, thank you, I forgot to list the MEM.
I'm so glad they are arriving.
Keeping singing those tunes...I'm making cider.
LOL, I think I wrote the MM backwards. Found Mountain Magic in plantfiles. I'm have a ball looking these up. Save me a cup of cider.
Hohoho! Come on over!
Deborah, your "voice" is great if no one has said so. :-)
Thank you, Kristi, the packaging was terrific. All 9 of my cuttings arrived in tip top shape. Likes the other lucky stars, I'm going to look these babies up in pf. Oooh yes, the cuttings are all in 3" of water under bright light - away from draft and heating's vent. Thank you Donna.
Kim
Glad everything turned out well, Kim. I have to admit that I was a little worried...being shipped from Donna's to me, then back out. But Donna showed me how to package them up and I'm really glad she did! I hope we'll all be sharing photos of our babies by next summer.
I'll be there with pics. and jingle bells. We'll make another contest at the end of the growing season for yet more new members to spread the joy.
Kim
I was given some Brug cuttings last year for my first experience with them. Eventhough I was new to gardening in general, I did manage to water root some last winter. I planted the ones that survived despite my ignorance. I can't explain the feeling of seeing and smelling those blooms for the first time! It just took my breath away.
Last month a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, we had an unexpected early frost that burned the Y's on all of mine. Luckily, my DH told me that evening to expect frost that night and I went outside with a flash light and took cuttings on some of them just for insurance. Whew! thanks to the folks on DG who answered my cry for help from having a panic attack. The roots will be fine though, here in southwest GA. They'll just have to grow back from the ground & Y up again.
I received three cuttings recently from another generous DGer and now these. I hope I can do better this winter rooting these babies. I don't want to lose nary a one. Heck, I don't even like thinning out seedlings.
I would love to have a staggered row of them around my fishing pond gardens. The butterflies can use them as wind breaks!
Thank you again so much, Donna & Kristi.
I went to the P.O. yesterday afternoon, they weren't there. Went this morning, and this afternoon, still not there. Maybe tomorrow.
~Lucy
Cathy,
I'm relatively new to the brug's love-affair. I just learned this year from DG to overwinter them when we can, so this is my very first year to overwinter them. To ensure your cutting viability. A few drop of peroxide added into your rooting water is said to help. I routinely change out the water every 3-4 days to ascertain the water doesn't turn "sour". I've had lucks with that. For those of us using the bubbler-water to roots perennials. By all means that works best without having to change out the water that often.
Happy Holidays everyone.
Kim
Fingers crossed for ya'll waiting on your pretties. I hope your postman can read as good as mine. My box had "RUSH - LIVE PLANTS" written on the outside of the box, thanks to Kristi.
Kim are you a solid zone 7b or or you 7b/6a?? You could probably plant yours in the ground with heavy mulch. I believe there are people in zone 7b that have there's in the yard and they come back. Check the brug forum and ask. They get so much bigger in the ground and after a year or 2 they grow Y's and bloom faster too.
Chris would probably know too. She's above me in zone 7 just below Atlanta. Oh, Chris, where are you????
Donna,
Although my neighbors' brugs seem to grow fine outdoor and being cut back to the ground every year. I've a few that failed to bloom this year due to bad drought and high heat condition. So I'm trying to keep some in pots to assure early blooms next year.
Chris and I are roughly 2 hours driving distance, I'm West of Chris by couple hundreds miles more or less. :-)
And I'm 2 hours just below her. How about that! We map out a capital T. Kim, if Chris knows rather or not she can grow them in the ground, then there's your answer. Both of your climates would be just about the same.
I'm glad to hear that about them getting bigger and blooming faster in the ground, Donna. That's good news, Thank you for telling us.
It depends on your garden soil. In Alabama, we've to deal with red clay soil. Brug planted in the ground, some didn't grow pass 3 feet tall, and remained small and malnourished. I've many competions from surrounding big shade trees to boot. Thus potting culture served better for me here.
Yep, that red clay is something to consider. I have spend more money on soil amendments as I have on plants because of it. Do you increase the size of your containers each year? I've seen some pictures of some beautiful big Brugs as patio plantings and wondered how often they'd need repotting.
Deborah
Deborah, the bigger the pot, the more leg-room for the brug. The smaller the pot, the more often you need to keep them watered, and with the heat like this past summer. Small pots will surely be the demise of brugs by the end of the day. Pruning the roots (you've got to be brave on this one) will help your container planting each yearly. I prefer big pots, some experienced growers will sink their small pots into the ground, that allow the roots to escape out from pot's drainage holes, then at the end of the growing season, they just simply dig the pot up (thus prunning the excess roots at the same time, and felt no pain). lol. I visited a fellow DGer's friend who lives in zone 7a, who did that. And her brugs were glorious!!!
BTW; Donna, technically I'm classified as 7b, but due to microclimate (being near by a lake), while my friends all around me have gotten their first frost. Thus far, I haven't had one yet.
Mine has been growing outdoors for about 4 years, gets bigger and better every year. Sometimes it gets mulch and sometimes it doesnt. I kinda go by "only the strong survive" theory.
chris
ROFL Chris
good thing I have strong kids.
During planting time in spring, they go from saying "MMM, smells good what are you cooking for diner?" to asking, "Are you cooking diner or are we having Hot Pockets?"
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LOL
Hot pockets sound good once in a while. lol.
Kim, I am about 6hrs. from Pitt. We are right on the Northeast border of PA.,only 2 miles from New York State Southern border. We get some mighty cold weather here,but we live in a valley between two rivers and are quite protected by the "rolling hills" of PA☺
I copied down your instructions Donna and I have high hopes for these Brugs.If they do even half as well as everyone is saying, they will be the talk of the town☺
Thanks to everyone here for all the helpful hints. I have a tablet right here by my side and have copied every bit of info each of you has shared. It makes me confident that I will have some super duper blooms next year.
I am watching,waiting for Brugs from TX today,
LU
♫♫☼GUESS WHAT I have in its own little bucket of water recouperating from a long journey☺♫♫
Thank You so much Kristi and Donna for the Prize Brugs. They just arrived and are in excellent shape.I am enjoying them already. Just looking at them makes me think and dream of Springtime Planting☺
LU
Oh yea!!!!!!!!!!!