Hi Jroot,

I'd be interested in your double white, pinks, apricot **variegated** and the double orange . I will be @ the guelph aboraetum next week to collect some seed - looks like your not that far from guelph.

Cheers

Jeff

Hi
If I was was willing to mail a SASE bubble envelope, and sufficient postage, would you reconsider mailing out? I realize it can be $10.00 or more.
Jen

Thrice burned, not open to it. Sorry. The Canadian Pension only goes so far. LOL

I took this shot of my variegated brugmansia this morning.
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I'll really have to cut her back in order to get her indoors for the winter. LOL

Wow, that is a beauty!! Don't you hate having to cut back when they're in full glory like that? You must get so many comments from people going by, when they see this one. Really wish I lived closer, but then again, I have space problems in my own house already!

Sammyqc, how did yours work out this year? Did they give you the performance you were hoping for?

Hi Jroot,

Signet here. Gorgeous shot of your varigated brug!!Oh My! . I didnt have as much luck unfortunately .After babying the cuttings you sent all winter , I lost a bunch of my rooted cuttings due to drought and being on a well. We went 13 weeks without a drop of rain starting around the middle of May .I lost tons of plants and ground water levels are dangerously low even now . I would just about die for a double orange cutting! I can imagine what that would look like. Must be just gorgeous .

So it is nice to see a picture of a plant that someone was able to water .

I am also sorry to hear that you got "stiffed" for postage ....that ruins it for all of us out here who did send our agreed upon monies for your wonderful cuttings.

Anyway, hope you had a wonderful summer season . If we have another winter/summer next year like this one I am seriously considering giving up gardening ....its either that or moving to some tropical isle where they get tons of rains. Fed up with Southern Ontario weather this year that's for sure !

Signet

Hi Jroot. I have to admit that my brugs were not up to par this summer, combination of the weather, my being away a lot, and neglecting the fertilizing. They are still very healthy, growing and green, just not blooming the way they should. Although one noid white has been spectacular, I think because of the potting soil and the humunguous pot it is in. And my peach candida is about to (finally) put out a flush of about 25 blooms. My Peaches and Cream has actually grown about 5inches this year and put out a few more little branches too. LOL...that darn plant just doesn't want to grow for me!!!
I still have 7 little ones that I started from seed this spring that are growing nicely, and actually do need to be repotted very soon! I have to grow them in pots, I've pretty much decided. My soil here is just so sandy and rocky, that the brugs just don't thrive. I tried growing a few in ground again this year, and they just look so straggly, same as last year. There is only so much compost that my household produces, and only so much that I want to spend money on, so it is always a toss up between the vegetable garden and the perennial/annual gardens. Usually the vegetable garden wins!
The cuttings you sent me are doing well, although no blooms this year. Four large healthy double oranges, and the double white are growing nicely.

Thanks for the encouraging words. My double orange has not done as well as I had hoped. It is still pretty small and no blooms. I had it in a pot this year compared to in the ground last year. We live and we learn. I have just the spot for it next year (same spot as last year LOL).

Have you ever tried keeping the brug in a pot, and then burying the pot? That is what I do, and it seems to help keep the pot cooler, although I still have to visit the rain barrel every day to water them. Just make sure that the holes in the pot are near the bottom of the SIDE, so that you can easily cut the roots back and haul the plant out of the ground. If the holes are in the bottom, they are brutes to get out.

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Burying the pots?? That would make too much sense. I'll try that next year, definitely. I recently repotted my P&C, and now it's really growing! More in the last two weeks, than all summer. Just in time to come in for the winter, LOL. It seems determined to thwart me, that one. Hopefully someday I'll have as glorious a picture to show of this variegated one. With all this warm weather, they are still growing strong, and putting out buds and blooms. In another few days, my Candida should be in full bloom, and I'll have a bragging pic of my own to post! (Knock on wood)

sammyqc, burying the pots works wonders. As I said, it keeps the roots cooler, and if one misses a day of watering, it is not such a catastrophe. The roots work their way out of the pot, and in the fall, I root prune the plant, and put them into storage for the winter. Win Win.

Hi Jroot,
I know you are offering cuttings but I am not close enough to get them myself. So, I just wonder if you can kindly offer seeds for a SASE.

Thanks,
JJ

Sorry, I don't have any seeds this year.

This week, they get cut down and brought in for the winter. The weather forecase is beautiful this week but next weekend I expect that we will get the cold weather that is in Alberta now. So, this week I guess they get composted.

jroot
I emailed you a few weeks ago,did you get it? as I didn't hear back.

Sorry, if I did not get back. My mother-in-law had a massive stroke a little over a week ago, and has since passed on. I also had a power surge which put my computer out of action for about 4 days. I have been very busy.

I just checked my emails and can't see one, Molly.