Brug season has ended & OT pics

15 years ago

Well, the brug season has finally come to a close. The last couple of frosts have left the branches bare, and left a ton of unopened blooms hanging lifelessly from them :(

Despite the chilly temperatures, there are other plants in their prime. Here are some pics from my yard today. I hope you all enjoy!

Finally! i got to see some blue sky! I was getting tired of the gloomy fog we've been having.

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Shrimp plant - This is my first year growing it, and it has bloomed every month of the year! really surprising.

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My young Aloe Ferox. It has almost doubled in size. It's WAY too young to flower, but this is the season they bloom in.

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Another shrimp plant pic

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Some blooms on the variegated pink lemon

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And another one with some new pink growth.

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My doggies - Max and Penny wishing you a great holiday season! We adopted Penny about a month after losing our Piru (some of you might remember we lost him this summer).

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The kentia is opening a new frond. It's a bit more frost tolerant than i thought. Notice the frost damage on the blechnum gibbum in front of it.

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Tibouchina Urvilleana getting new growth and blooms

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And finally, a bed of succulents. I'm always adding new stuff here. Currently there are aloes, haworthias, sempervivums, sedums, crassulas, kalanchoes, agaves, echeverias...My latest addition is an Aloe Striata.

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dimples31312
15 years ago
Great pictures. I have 3 brugs in the GH that is setting buds. I sure hope they bloom.
I started some succulents this year. Hope they make it thur this crazy winter.
Dorothy
fool4flowers
15 years ago
I have a surprise double opening in the garage. I have racked my brain trying to thing what it was. I am thinking maybe a double peach but not sure, lol. Guess I'll find out in a couple of days. My tibouchina is not happy at all in the garage. I am thinking I should have planted it and let it take its chances. Love your plants and puppies. Really cute!
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Great pictures!! as always, I have around 7 brugmansias, but they look rather poor, Oh the ones I got from prince are looking great! they look like they are taking, tomorrow I will take pictures and post in the evening, this week I am supposed to do a lot of work I am off from work the WHOLE week!! so House work catch up yard work too,a trip to the big city is in order, will go to New Braunfels to the nursery, I was up there Saturday and went to seguin Sunday to the nursery Prince mentioned but as luck would have it they were close for the 4th of July, they do have a bunch of flowers in their landscape very nice too. will try to go there again sometime soon I just don't know how soon. Marcie
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Kylie... yeah... and he'll cook the steaks and buss the tables. Hong... don't kid yourself. You seem to have the gardening under control. I loved seeing your plants, flowers and hardscape items. Thanks for the nice compliment though. The big trophy was not for me... don't I wish! The Ryder Cup is a team golf competion, played every other year, between the United States and Europe. It is easily the greatest event in professional golf and one of the greatest events in all sports. It was played, a couple of weeks ago, in Louisville, KY, where the U.S. won for the first time, since 1999. It was incredibly exciting, even for people like me, who were there working 14 hour days! Anyway, I got to have my photo taken with the trophy, upon its return to the PGA of America's headquarters, here in my hometown. Bob
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thanks Karyn :) GG, It wasn't funny at first for Duke to be slamming head first into everything, I kept cringing and yelling "Oh!..ooo!..watch out!"..lol I thought for sure he was going to run into something and poke his eye out. But it did get funny as time went on. I was laughing when he went up the back steps, and he was pushing on the wall with his nose, thinking it was the door, lol. That darn wall just wouldnt open for him..yet the door 6" to the left was wide open. I had to grab his head and point his nose where to go. yes, my poor Arbor. First it was the arch that went down from TS Hannah..now this. Was my fuirst year with that arbor..I really liked it. I am hoping that all the garden bad luck has all hit this year, and is over with. Hopefully next year it will be all good. *knock on wood* thank you, but the pumpkins are nothing really. Halloween is my fav holiday..I have only NOT dressed up 1 yr in my life. But sadly, this is the first year I am not decorating. I dont even know where half of them are, and I just havent had the time. Last year my decorations were on the tv on the news, lol. The reporter came to my area for a dif story, but was impressed with the decorations, so he stuck some decoration shots in the story as well after my interview, lol. My gravestones were tied into the story as well. He called them "morbidly funny" in the news segment. I'm rambling now..
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Hi everyone, New here to this forum. Needed escape from 2 other forums, not great vibes going on in both. I live in Northern Calif. and am preparing for my first garden up here! Thanks to rosepedal for steering me to meet you all. I've never planted brugs but now that I'm here I'm sure I will have to give it a try. : ) Happy Christmas Eve! Cindy
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karyn1
15 years ago
The plants look great and your fur babies are adorable. I wish I could enlarge the thumbnails. The shrimp plant will bloom year round, unless of course it freezes! lol
Central_Cali369
Original Author
15 years ago
Hello Dorothy, i've seen your posts, but haven't officially "talked" with you. I'm glad you're hanging around this forum, it's a pretty cool place to post.

Cristy, post some pics when it opens.

Karyn, i'm not sure why photobucket is spasing. Here, let's try this:

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Did it work?

mmm, guess not :(

Well, here's the link to the slideshow:

http://s244.photobucket.com/albums/gg19/centralcali369/December%202008/?albumview=slideshow

And here's a link to the album:

http://s244.photobucket.com/albums/gg19/centralcali369/December%202008/?action=viewÂ¤t=HPIM0413.jpg
plantlover49
15 years ago
Josh
Great pic's again, Love the blue sky with the palms.
Your dogs are really cute also, keep posting pic's
I don't have anything blooming except my pointsetta that my DD got me for Christmas
Elizabeth
dimples31312
15 years ago
Cristy, can not see your album :( comes up saying "The action that you were trying to perform has failed"
Dorothy
PS
Gald is finally meet you!
karyn1
15 years ago
I still couldn't enlarge the thumbnails and the links failed as well. I get this message with about half of the thumbnails that people post:

"The action that you were trying to perform has failed."

It might be the computer I'm on. I've never paid attention if it happens with all the computers or just some. There's 4 PC's and a laptop that I use. It just depends on where in the house I am when I go online. The problems started after Photobucket changed the format, then changed back. If it wasn't such an easy image host I'd switch but the others like Picassa are too confusing for me.
technodweeb
15 years ago
Puppy doggies are adorable.

I'd post pictures but, all you'd see is WHITE.

Supposed to be 46 today and the next 3 days. Freaky Illinois weather. "God's snow removal plan"

Gotta go visit the green room and see how the cuttings are doing.

Doing the usual "mite" battle. Grrrrrrrrrrr. . .nasty buggers.
Central_Cali369
Original Author
15 years ago
Grrrrr. ok here we go again. Those thumbnails were supposed to be clickable.

Try THIS link.

Here is a link that might be useful: link to my album
fool4flowers
15 years ago
The new link works Josh. The brug is starting to turn colors. I think it might be my double peach that I coudn't remember where I planted, lol. I'll make John download the pics. Its a pale yellow right now and I only had Hawaiian Double white and double peach when I planted that one in the barrel I think. I thought it might have been the white one since the flower is so long but it looks like its going to color up some. Yippee! Haven't seen that one bloom yet.
dimples31312
15 years ago
The link worked...Thanks
Pictures are great!
Dorothy
givelittle_getlots
15 years ago
Josh you still got so much going on. Thanks for sharing that with us and making our`*empty* lives more fun.

I need a greenhouse WITH a good heater next winter. Thought I did ok but turned out that I waited to long to bring the cuttings in the house and the mother plants in the shed are freezing down to the pot...some. Some are ok. This was a bad end to a great Brug season.

But that makes you oh so much more apreciative about the ones that do make it. Thinking of Karyn at this moment too.

Hugs
Lucy
fool4flowers
15 years ago
So sorry Lucy. I should have gotten some cuttings from you and put them in the garage with mine. I didn't know you were going to have to put them in the unheated shed. My sister said she used one of those big floodlight bulbs in the walmart plastic greenhouse last year and it kept her plants above freezing. If you have a light fixture in there seal up the cracks in the door so hubby can't see the light and try it, lol.
dimples31312
15 years ago
Frost Pink Has Bloomed
Dorothy
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givelittle_getlots
15 years ago
Kristy hahahahaha it is not that he will see it. He will READ it on the electric bill lol It is ok. God will give me exactly what I need. He gives and he takes. In his own way. Thinking of Karyn's loss. Everything will be just fine.
Oh I am watching the gardening show right now. Talking about day lilies. Got to get me more. They are just so beautiful.

Happy gardening my friends ...to all those with greenhouses...and the rest...the outdoor growing season is coming closer day by day.

Lucy

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