We got our usual frost damage. As long as there's not a prolonged freeze these plants will all recover in Spring.
This is Maya. Eaten by bugs in the Fall, and Frosted in Winter. Tough plant though. I can almost promise I'll be showing pictures of blooms in the Spring.
Poor Creamsickle was trying to have a flush and she was interrupted by Jack Frost. Guess they'll never turn that nice apricot color now.
This is in the greenhouse, but unheated. The cold hasn't been kind to the plants but Fascination did manage to toss me a consolation bloom. She's just a pale shadow of her perfect Springtime bloom, but a nice reminder that Spring will come. It's strange here - lovely warm day today, but cold nights.
Awww poor little frosted bruggies!
Fascination certainly is lovely! ♥
Poor babies! Fascination is still beautiful. Temperatures here have been all over the place, but the Brugs in my greenhouse are nice and warm. My DH finally agreed to keep the thermostat at 50ºF. I have three Brugs in the ground and I find myself running out at weird hours to cover them up. So far, the tops are still alive.
Poor cold babies! I hope they make it till spring!
That is a perfect flower, that Fascination is. I need to get me one of them. I did not forget your Day Dreams, Mary. I will send it out in the spring.
I think you're mixing me up with someone else Paul. I've had Day Dreams for a few years. :-)
How cold did it get? Your plants look like the ones on my porch after the heater went off a couple days ago.
Linda
Oh i am so sorry Mary about the frost, i know you told me when we spoke Christmas that you had Frost, but i did not think it could be so bad. my wish for you is, that all recouperates fast.
They'll be fine. I've never lost a plant when it's been frosted like that. Only a sustained freeze kills them. When I was out in the backyard at 6 AM a few days ago Adeline was covered in a bright sparkly frost. I won't cut off the damaged area until the chance for frost is over. Then they'll snap back quite fast. The radio said it was 30 degrees at 6 AM. It was record breaking for that December day. It warms up very fast once the sun is up.
Mary - We live in the same town and probably near each other. Do you grow your brugs in the ground or in pots? I live near the high school and our ground is SO bad, I've never kept a plant (brug, that is) alive in the ground. Barbara
I only grow Brugmansia in pots. Big pots! Since I had my back surgery back in 1998, I hardly ever try to dig in our combination clay and rock soil. I live off Carriage Road, which is off Poway Road. Funny thing is some parts of my yard don't get frosted; but the frost seems to drop off the hill and just damage things that are in the low part of the yard. Let me know if you'd like some cuttings in the Spring.
Paul or Mary,
does the Day Dreams do well in direct afternoon sun or better with afternoon shade? We usually have triple digit summer days and most plants wilt in that sun.
It can get pretty warm and very dry here in the summer; so it's better in afternoon shade here.
Just before the temperatures dropped Daydreams gave me so beautiful blooms. Spring and Fall brings out the best in her in this climate. Will get a few blooms here and there in the winter, but in Spring she'll really wow you! Every Spring I fall in love with Brugmansia all over again.
I figured most brugs would want afternoon shade. The DD is just a large cutting that will go in the ground in April. So we will see what she will do this year.
Oh Mary, don't you hate that first frost esp if it is the only one you get all winter? Just enough to kill off annuals and make your brugs drop their leaves and buds. We have had a couple days of just cold enough to ruin the looks of my brugs though I notice I am getting new growth on some. Still getting into the high 30s here at night but the brugs seem happy as long as it does not go below 32. I think you stay warmer than I am. I am surprised you get that cold in 10A. Your brugs were beautiful! Spring is so close now, I am getting excited.
Here is one of my tree brugs that I left only to add a bit of warmth to my hoophouse that you can see below it. Though now with no leaves it is useless. It is one of those ugly seedlings that thrive better than much nicer ones. Lives on regardless. Makes me nuts. It is in a gallon pot that rooted thru to the ground a couple of years ago. I need cut it down for good.
All my brugs look like this now. My tibouchina next to it is still blooming on regardless so it hasn't gotten very cold here yet.
