Dirtygardener73 I will have Charles Grimaldi, next spring, right now it's not big enough too cut, so keep in touch, also I have a trade going, I still might be able to get you one keep in touch, we'll see what we can work out, is there anything else you're looking for? I have a lot of Brugs it would take 2 pages too list them all Elizabeth

Hi I guess I must be very optimistic writing this so long after you posted but just wanted to ask you if there was a chance you might have a cutting left, I would give you a list of things growing in my garden with the hope that something might appeal to you for an exchange. Thanks a lot

Token it's not winter hardy for me but should probably be ok inground year round in your zone. I assume that you are 7b, very close to 8a? I'm in 7a and am about half a zone too cold to keep any brugs inground over the winter. Boy would that make life easier if I could just leave them be year round.

DG, I know you are a very educated, very well-read and very experienced gardener, so I hesitated to reply or to offer any advice. In my experience and for my brugs, they like lots of sun, lots of water and lots of fertilizer. I would not even think of keeping them in the house - unless I was still rooting them - because it is the opposite of the conditions they like. I'm very puzzled every time I read you say that there has been too much rain... because my brugs love water/rain. I have a no-name, extremely hardy pink and I grow it in full sun. It could be CG but I really don't know. I got it from someone with whom I connected via Gardenweb. At the time, he wrote "Ill send cuttings from the big pink one ..... the plant will droop some lower limbs and they root and it spreads . I found it after the hurricane hanging over a fence it was a huge plant in someones back yard." So that's all I know about it. I have rooted numerous cuttings from it for myself and for others... I root them in the shade but as soon as rooted, into at least a half-day of full-sun they go. I now have four of them growing in my yard - all four planted in the ground. Here are a few pics... the blooms start out white, turn to light pink and then dark pink as they age. I hate for anyone to lose plants and I know how much you paid and how much you've struggled... but I don't see you getting these going much in the house or in the shade... but maybe I'm wrong. I don't want to jeopardize what you have left! I'm truly keeping my fingers crossed for you! Carol