Thanks for the Sunflower picture LiliMerci, WoW! it's huge.
Haven't bought any Kale seeds yet, Thanks for the new thread Steven.
SUNFLOWER CONTEST..no rules, just post yours!
I just started planting brug this year and I've only had one plant that bloomed. The yellow brug is a late bloomer, usually late September or early October - so I don't have any photo this year. Anyway, I think I'm going to have to move mine because it's getting too much shades.
Running my kale out to my GPS.
Todays sunflower.. its a lil bashful... maybe tomorrow it will smile. We got a squirt of rain...need more
Lili, Do you keep your brug in the ground over winter? I'd love to see a picture even with no blooms!
Blossom, be sure to post about your kale and the kale thread! I've been making little starter pots for mine!
Terri, Do you want me to keep you listed as being in the Kale Kontest? Or I can take you off the list until you get some seeds? Just let me know whatever works for you :)
Here's a picture of my first sunny!
Well, this is my first year planting but my next door neighbor leaves his in. Cut his down to the ground when first freeze. So I usually give away cuttings in November. I plan to leave mine in the ground. I have too many other tropicals to haul in.
I know what you mean, I bring in too many things every fall. Every year I say it will be less, but it never really is. My bruggies are getting big too but no Y so I'll have to bring them in.
Awwww! hehehehe!!!
Blossom! Are you laughing at my sunny?
Not me, I was just giggling because its soooo cute and all!
Now that is a big sunny! So nice to be able to plant at your neighbors - they surely get the reward of seeing more beauties in their gardens.
Steven will your season last long enough to get that sunny to bloom do you think?
That came up quick Steven! It looks healthy. I have lots of sunflower seedlings sprouting now in my sunflower patch
(I thought they had been weeded out)! I'm hoping there might be some teddy bear ones!
Keep watering your sunny's everyone! Rain dance for you Blossom... lol!
Still needing more rain. DANCE DANCE DAAAAANCE!
This ones not coming out of its shell until the rain comes!
SW_gardener, I spoke too soon. I have buds on my brugs! May be another week or so I will have blooms.
unlike that pucker puss above, we have sunny face!
Candee, I doubt it :( Unless it blooms really short!
Lili, way to go! Looking forward to seeing pics!
We will just wait and see there Steven who knows?
I have never tried the brugs but love looking at them. Another fav that I never tried is datura?
I have some datura too! One come up under a Yew bush and another is from a friend. The one under the bush has a nice fat bud on it. I'll get a picture later :)
Wheres the rain????
It's over here!!!!
No rain here....it's actualy sunny for a change!
Here's the Datura Candee
btw Blossom, fess up! you were laughing at that seedling .. lol!
what seedling??? Me laughing at a lil ol... er young seedling... Not muwaaaah!!
I posted my brug photo here:
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1020430/
did not want to hijack your sunflower thread.
No problema! Happens all the time! ......so are those brugs easy to grow? I guess I best tune in to your thread to find out!! .. Im on it
But first a word from my sponsor...Oh man, I m a getting rain! YAY! We need to fine tune the rain dance guys, the humiduity and heat is gonna get beastly the next few day, guess we better tune down the bass drums a little! LOL!
we got alot of rain last week and the mosquitoes are hatching this week. Ugh! But we needed the rain. I'm not complaining. My sunflowers are all dried up now. Next week, when the kiddos are back in school I'm going to cut down the sunflowers and collect the seeds!
Blossombuddy, the brugs are not hard to grow at all and most of them root very easily from cuttings. I will be glad to give you some when I cut in the fall. All these that I have are from cuttings that someone gave me last year. They really like the sun and heat. Probably will need to grow in a container for you, or you can grow in the ground after last frost, take cutting for the winter and plant again in the ground in the spring. I don't do much for them except water. No special soil treatment or anything.
I dont know on that taking of a brug cutting to winter indoors. Do they grow fast? My house might not be brug friendly! I have a heck of a time with house plants, but I am taking a bunch of things indoors this winter.. coleus, begonia, christmas cactus, spiderplants, baby sunroses that I all have in hanging baskets and there is about 10 or so of each except for the cactus and begonias and I am not sure how many coleus I am going to try,.
Today my lonely loofa is a few inches above the cage its in. I really need to go and get it something to grab onto so it can really take off. I am amazed how fast it has grown. We are going into our hot dry time now. I just hope it will set fruit before the frost. Im in a race against time there so I might not get anything. You have to rememmber I am in zone 5
Gettng back to that brug.. how big of pot? Dont those things get huge???
Meant to say too that we got a few bloomers on the sunnies today. They are not as withered as a few days ago.. they are talking rain again maybeMonday. Dance dance dance.. we could use a goooood soaking and not the humidity.
I leave my cuttings in water in a glass vase last winter. They root in there. You can put in a little bit of peroxide in the water.
So you mean to say I can leave them in water all winter and plant in the spring then? Well that might work then for me.
Love the cottage flower thread BTW... Im going back for more visits there.
yes. I got a bunch of cuttings last year and about 50% of them rooted. Some cultivar may not root well, or the stem is too small or too young. But most of them are fine rooting in the water.
Steven that is a very healthy datura you have going there, when will it bloom?
Are they good for cut flowers?
BB we are getting that 100 degree heat here now and for a few days, it is stifling.
Thanks Candee! I think the datura is going to open tonight! I'll try to take a pic but we're supposed to get more storms though and it's roasting hot outside. About time though as this has been the coldest summer ever. The datura blooms only last one night and the fragrance can actualy have narcotic effects in a confined space......so I probably wouldn't reccomend it :)
I know what you mean Steven, yesterday was the first day we turned on the AC in the house and we stayed outside and I actually roasted a turkey on the grill in 100 degree heat!
I never heard that about the datura fragrance sounds exotic! I also didn't know they only last one night? Guess I shall pass on trying to get one.
I am still awaiting my pineapple lily, got the idea from terri last year and got one, but still nothing but leaves.
They keep saying rain.. WHERES DA RAIN?????
humaditity is beastly and i hate AC itd yo hsrf om my pold bones!!
The datura is really nice and great if you can see it from inside so it can be admired at night......unlike mine which is growing behind a bush.
Here's some pics! The blooms look like an upside-down brug.
Ooops...forgot pic
top view
side view
