I just got home from work a bit ago. Catching up before I find my pillow and start snoring.
She's about to .....#8 : )
Hi nutties and welcome Nadine, you made it over here, I do not know where you got the time though, mailing all of those bruggies, my envelope went to you yesterday, lol, can't wait to see what goodies you will send me!
Louise that pic is so cute! Lorraine, nice apron, Beck, I'll go with you to Randy's! I really would, if it wasn't too far.
Have a nice day everyone, the rain has stopped over here and no damage.
Clemen
Fun pic, looks like a coneflower collar too! Are they bobbley heads? Too cute! Have a good sleep Lav. Yes! Welcome to the thread Moodene! I wondered if the big rush was over for you and Maggi... GQ, Is that a smaller growing/blooming brug? :) Nice flush! It's a gorgeous plant. I see white ones in the background.. I think you guys needed the rain, I hope it is a nice slow soaking rain. Anjl, I'm anxiously awaiting an update pic tonite, IF at all possible..(gotta go, w-o-r-k.) Good Morning Everyone (and good night Louise).
Great on no damage, Clemen. Please drive down to Becks, and pick me up on the way, I want to go to Randy's too. :) Anjl, I have iris waiting to be replanted. I've got them shaded and moist, they'll have to wait for me. Poor things, just to hot for me the past couple of weekends. Nothing I want to take on after work, too tired. I bet there are some pretty ones, so I'm staying away from that co-op. lol
Good morning everyone. My pod gets a little bigger every day! I have 3 on the one plant now. I'll take another picture maybe tomorrow and post.
How goes the t shirt ideas??? Anyone got one yet?
Good morning everyone. We had a llittlerain here yesterday, but we ar waiting for the bad stuff to arrive here, pretty quickly. Some stations say we are going to get lots of rain, and a brief tropical tornado, so please say your prayers. I have my plants tucked in as tight as I can get them, so I hope they are OK. Now I wish I had a green house!
Beautiful brugs and coneflowers hiding the crazy bird...
tata's on the front of a shirt, I don't need my tata's to look any longer!
Maybe if they come with extra support!!! LOL
Later
Linda Kay
This is what I came up with? Maybe if someone had a real pretty picture of a blooming brug bush, we can do that, or the design can go on the back of he t shirt?
Just my idea.
Sorry it is fuzzy, but I think you can get the idea.
Linda Kay
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Linda Kay!!! You're terrific! I love that design!
I'm workin on something.. I Love the brug pic, Linda! I'm working with an imaginery bloom pic.. Try to hurry up and post my feeble attempt of an idea.. lol
Bonnie, I can't wait to see your design. Looking forward to it. Here is a pix of what's left off my broken brug I was hoping for a nice flush from that booger! LOL.
Kim, it looks like nothing ever happened from my view... pretty finished bed, too! Sorry about your loss.. Phone, BRB
No loss, but perhaps just a little set-back. Last year similiar thing happened to my 'BBB' pink brug. This was how I saved the new cuttings and managed to salvate a few blooms at the end of the season; I'll use this as sharing of experience with working with brugs...
I took the broken branches, stripped off most of the big leaves, saved a few, but trimmed them down to about half their size. Submerged them in water to rehydrate them.....Like this. Water in the bathtub will serve the same purpose. ^_^
Can't get this to work... trying again...still won't work... I'm trying to get an excel file on a Mac to change from .xls to .gif or .png, It's not working.. My idea is On Top: dave'sgarden.com's, then Linda Kay's brug pic, then HOTTIE'S... then under that, Brugmansia Mania & More.. that's it, my brain hurts. Okay Kim, do you leave them in the bathtub to root? ;)
As most of us are aware that brug cuttings take roots in water easily provided that the cuttings are under a foot long, tip-cutting, cane cutting, semi-hardwood cuttings ect. But, with one that's greater than 3-4' tall, what's one to do to keep them from continually droop from dehydration?
This is what I did, and it worked. :-)
I brought the cuttings inside my mini, makeshift greenhouse. To avoid the drying wind from outdoor, as well as dodges the heat during this time of year, and direct sunshine on our rootings (of any kind of plant will surely dry them out faster before they form roots). Intermittent misting to keep the leaves turgid. This proccess will take a week or two, once I see white 'nubs' then root formation on these. I'd then pot them up and keep them under the shade to acclimmate them to the outdoor......
Here is an example of a similiar situation last year. This was a broken branch that I saved last summer, toward the end of the season I harvest this bloom. :-)
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=4107172
editted to correct the above link.
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Do they ONLY bloom from a "Y"? I've just about looked mine to death, and no sign of buds!!
Hi, Ya'll don't laugh, but is this a datura or a brug?
Forgot, I hope it's ok if I put this link here. If not, just tell me and I'll take it down reallly really fast!
Catlady and I are doing a really quick daylily co op, sale and free shipping. Couldn't pass it up, but only have a week to get it done.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/881238/#new
I sure hope that's a brug up there. That means I'll have a bloom soon! Can't let Anjl get too far ahead of me!!!
Whatever it is, I have several of them I didn't know I had.
Thanks for the welcome!!!... I let Gyspy Queen get hit by frost last year since it was getting long limb and scraggly looking..but will let it grow up bigger by putting a tarp and plastic over it this winter..
The brug in the background that has white looking blooms is Apricot Smoothie but the blooms do get darker..I have Pink Velvet,Apricot Smoothie, KBS, Orange sherbet, Orange sunshine, MEM, Gypsy Queen...all blooming in my backyard..I did have Creamsickle and L'Amour bloom last week in my side yard..
Now if the rain would just let up or blow somewhere else..so I can go outside to check on my stuff I brought home from Maggi's to plant in my yard...like a very tall banana tree and some small pups..and few other brugs...sheeze.......
In this pic is Pink Velvet blooming early in the morning the day I left for Maggi's house...
Lorrain, that looks like a datura to me, are the leaves sort of fussy with fine, fine hair-like pattern and is soft to the touch? Especially if they grew from seeds. Daturas readily grow from seeds (bird could have carried the seeds). Whereas brugmansia's seeds are harder to come by for they're not self-fertile.
Moodene, PV's blooms are large and beautiful!
Kimbob, I've rooted brug tree cuttings over winter, in a 5-gal bucket.. did you have some good "semi-wood" or are they pretty green? Nadine, your yard sounds heavenly! We like pics ;) That is a pretty pink. Audrey, all blooms come above the Y. Do you have a Y?
Lorraine that looks like a dat to me too. In fact it looks like a yellow from the pic. Nice job of saving the broken brugs. When I accidentally hacked the tip off of mine this year, I stuck the tip in the pot and it rooted and grew too. It is so nice outside today, very cool and overcast most of the day. Love this weather!
Love the T shirt design, cute!
Good afternoon sisses, I'm just throwing this out unfinished, but it is not going to be done by Friday, too much other stuff going on. Can you legally use the DG emblem on stuff like this? I just wondered how their copyright stands.. and what wording are we going for?? I have seen about 13 different suggestions :))
It is way too hot here and too much humidity. Just plain uncomfortable. My whole yard is wilted..
Oh, Louise, you are off work today! And it's nice weather??? That doesn't make sense! lol It's 97, index 103, humidity 44%, muggy! Fan some of that cool stuff down this way.
Peg! You are talented! Look at that handy-work!!! Did you just "free-hand" that on there??? I'm sorry your flowers are wilty.. It's miserable out there, poor things. Not sure on the DG emblem, d-mail Dave or someone and ask, I kinda thought we needed to advertise the website, so maybe we can get acquire more hotties from it...Wouldn't that be a thing?? "I saw a lady with a hot pink hottie t-shirt so I came to DG to check it out" ...Word of mouth (or shirt) is the best form of advertising..
Peg that is so cool! Perhaps you just need permission.
LOl, do you realize how hard it is to draw something you have never seen up close? Still budless here. So my form may be off on a lot of points. I did find one drawing and modified it quite a bit to keep from copying somone else's work. And the leaf was off of one of my plants that had been eaten in the middle..
I just remembered there are printable logos in Extras for us to "tell the world" so maybe it is okay...
Goodness, where are my manners?? I'm sorry. HELLO, Moodene. I've drooled and drooled over your coop but just could not make the jump yet. I seem to be losing more brugs than I'm keeping.
I found Pink Beauty today looking horrible. As I gasped in horror, I found a hole bored right at the soil level all the way through. Just a perfectly round hole through the main stem of the plant..everything above that has yellowed and I'm sure is gone, but it is still rooted. If I cut off at the soil, under the hole, do you think it willl come back? Or have I murdered another one?
Got to get out and go to the grocery store. Not my favorite chore! Talk with ya later, Peg
I would cut it off above the damaged stem and root it. Bonnie lookie what bloomed today! My cajun hib! These blooms are the size of a small dinner plate and I don't think the pic does the coloring justice. It has a pretty pink center, pale grape ground color with greyish brow coloration on some petal edges.
My brugs have holes in the leaves. What are the usual "leaf eaters" that like brugs. I think I may have some "leaf hoppers" ?, but have tried the stuff they say use, and still have holes. Someone told me it looks like slugs, but, I have never been able to find one, and there's no trail on the back or front.
Everytime I get several leaves that don't have holes, I go back out and there they are!! They aren't really bothering the daturas ??
I saw these tiny, and I mean tiny, black bugs on a sunflower leaf. Have I just been overrun with bugs. Yuk.
Moodene, did you and Maggi have fun?. Pam and I were trying to work schedules so we could come up while you were there. We're only about 10-15 minutes away. We'll go this Tuesday, but I'm sorry we missed you. I love to put faces with names.!!
Ya'll are just a bunch of talented people!! Your t shirt designs are really cool.
OH LAV! It's just gorgeous! Big ones, TOO! Try taking a pic later this evening while its still light out, it might pick up the true color better, but it is still so beautiful, very ruffly and plump looking! WOW
Peg, you are doing marvelous! And never seen a bloom! WOW to you, too! Your pink beauty.... I've never had that happen. Is there much stem left? If the hole is not too big, I think I might try covering it with potting mix up past the bite hole, move to bright shade and don't let dry out. If the hole is big and not much stem remaining, I'd cut it off (give it a fresh cut so it will take up water immediately) and reroot it. Was it doing well, before the incident? It may produce a plant from the roots, so if you do cut it to reroot the top, move the bottom part (root ball) to semi shade and keep taking care of it... may see a little PB starting from it. Peg, so sorry, I'm not sure what would have done that, a worm? cut worm?? Wad up some foil and kind of pull it back out but don't make it smooth, form it around the pot lip, that'll keep any worms from crawling up and in.. Or if it's a big pot, form a circle with foil around the stem and secure with a little potting medium until it settles from watering. KIMBOB! KIM the exotic! We need 3rd and 4th opinions on Pegs PB holely stem situ, please. Peg, you hang in there, how's that honey-do list coming today?
We worked from Monday morning until it got too dark to see what.. I finally got all the orders process except 1 and did it the next day..lol...but I was tired after my bath and reading a good book to relax....That was MEM first flush several weeks ago..My yard is all hodgepodge eveywhere...whereever I want to plant something..it is there..lol..Backyard is another story when ya got roosters and Babebera and Daisymae -my pot belly piggy all together ...lol...
Oh Miss Emily McKenzie, love that shade of pink! I like when the young brugs bloom, they look so fresh and petite, then a big "halo" of beautiful blooms on top, like a gigantic cherry on an icecream sundae. Oh, that's right Nadine, didn't you get the Pyrenese(sp) "puppy" for a buddy for Daisymae, how is their relationship, now... blooming? (or was Daisymae an excuse to take Babebera?)
Hi Peg, ok Bonnie, I'll take the 3rd opinion....but I'd like to see the pix before I can make any suggestion. lol.
I'd believe having the rootstock intact. It would eventually sproute new growth. But, I'm currious as to what would have bore a hole into the base that would interupt the flow of the nutrients to the upper portion that cause the plant's demise?
MEM is beautiful, and I like her trumpet shapes, first flush? That's very impressive.
Yes Babebera and Daisymae are buddies..lol..here is a pic of Babebera at 7 months old and behind her is Daisymae hiding..cuz it has been raining off and on all day due to Hurricane Dolly...Daisymae doesn't get out much in the rain..lol..
Hello Hotties!!! Welcome Moodene : ) I love the shirts! MEM is a doll. That is a lovely hib Lav. Peg I agree with cutting the damage and rooting... and caring for the rootball I had one come back from the roots once. Ok here is my bloom for the day this showed up after the storm I was not expecting this to bloom : ) the one I have been watching..zilch lol ; }
Whohoo Hotties love the t shirt designs, way to go ladies!!!!! Busy tonight and thinking of all of you. See ya later Clemen