Hello... I will plant my brugs in the ground in the morning and was wondering how close can I plant them. I have a small yard and about 13 brugs I want to plant. So what say yee????? Thanks!
I need help!
Well..Kim... I'll venture a reply.. plant the ones you want to see do best on the south side of your bunch.. in the most sun... then just space them out as best you can.. they will all do something.. I guess I've planted them as close as two to three ft from one another in aline..if you were doing a block of them..perhaps a little further away from one another.. I'm quite spacially chalenged also .. especially considering the numbers of them.. here. I always get them too close....
in Panama they are sometimes planted as a hedge around the coffee fields to break the wind.. they are pretty close there.. and they grow much bigger there also..
with so many just spread them around maybe use up a few in pots you can place in another spot like a porch or stairway.. or out on the walkway..
in the ground already...well best of luck...it''s a bit early still here... although if wasto continue like today.. I'd be OK.. I did move my passifloras out today.. in another week.. I suspect everything will be getting close to b getting out also..
inside the smaller ones pictured..are at about 4- 8"apart...
Thanks Gordon! That is what I will do The ones with a Y will get prime space : ) and so on. I have some doubles I will put in pots...are they really snooty and hard to please???? It is a bit early here too. My yard has a tall fence and if we get a cold snap....prolly will :(... I got some old sheets ready!! I looked at the 15 day forecast looks good..but we never know lol!!!
I don't envy you digging them back up in the fall! Maybe a really good mulch and some will come back in the spring? Possibly with christmas lights on the ground to keep it warm under the mulch! LOL I lost both of mine to the ground this year.. I just found some coming from the roots on my front Snow White today... thought it was a gonner.. I am really happy something survived... Thanks Gordon.. that was one of my first brugs you sent me year before last! Still no sign of life from my Texas Pink though and I thought that one was the real survivor.. and it was in a much more protected place in the yard. You never know.
Hi Tammy.. I left them in the ground with a heavy mulch and lost them all : ( we had a frigid winter this year. Took cuttings and lost all but one! I learned a lot and will do things different this time around. I am glad you luck with your Snow White.
Kim, You might consider doing what one DG member has done. About 2 months before the first frost he places a 4" plastic ring, made from edging strips, on the ground at the base of each Brug and fills it with shredded mulch. Just don't use mulch that inhibits growth. Water and fertilize as usual. By the time he's ready to take them indoors, the trunks have rooted. When he posted his information and photos, he claimed even hard to root Brugs had roots. All he has to do is prune the tops, make a cut below the new roots and pot them up. If the Brug has multiple trunks, he ends up with multiple back-up plants just in case some die over the winter. No need to dig up original plants.
Hi Betty, I think I will try that. Makes sense to me and sounds very easy : ) Thanks!