I have fallen in love with

[marlasmom]

brugsmania - or angel's trumpet. Both the new Park and Wayside catalog have plants. Check them out.

I had 2 of the 3 I bought at Park last year on their e-mail sale. I bought 6 HUGE planters at Walmart for about 18 - look like stone but lightweight plastic. I transplanted one of them and it looks really sick - wilted and leaves turning yellow. I don't understand - I did not disturb the root ball. I have 4 more coming.

I would like the old one in a bigger pot but I am not going to tranplant until I see if the first one survives.

BTW do any of you use Thrive or Spray N Grow - the latter I think can only be ordered on the net. Highly recommended at the Gardenweb.

 

[Snowwark]

I grew Brugmansia one year, and they were huge! I wish I'd taken a picture of them.

It's hard for me to imagine (as I look out the window and see nothing but white!) growing anything right now.

Your planters sound like a real find, Marlasmom! I'm sorry to hear that one of the Brugmansia isn't doing too well though. I don't know what it could be???

Is it warm and sunny at your house? Sigh......

 

[dandave]

Hi marlasmom! I love Brugs, as well. I have pink, yellow, and white Brugs.
I planted mine directly in the ground. They dropped their leaves, because of the recent freezing temps. But they keep putting out new shoots, dropping them when it freezes, putting on new shoots, etc. We've had some crazy weather here, lately. It'll be upper seventies one day, then in the fifties the next.

I rooted several brugs, and gave them to my mother. They root so easily.

I use Spray and Grow. I use it on my brugs and all my other plants, as well. I've been spraying a miniature rose that came from a cutting at my old home in Georgia with it. I've kept the rose outdoors, and it is still blooming even with these freezing temps. That stuff is amazing! I also like their Bill's Perfect Fertilizer, but I don't fertilize in the winter. I get it here:
http://www.spray-n-growgardening.com/nd/home

 

[Snowwark]

Welcome to the F&GB, dandave!

Another Florida gardener! I hope you'll tell us more about what you've got growing.

Your roses are blooming, even in freezing temperatures? That's very impressive!


Kim

 

[dandave]

Thanks for the nice welcome, Snowwark!

Well, I baby that one, since it came from "home" and it's the first rose I've ever successfully grown from a cutting. It gets lots of Spray and Grow and TLC. I'm in Panama City Beach, FL. The temp has been dipping at nights, but it warms up pretty nicely during the day.

I like to try my hand at all sorts of flowers. We just moved into our home last June, and I got to start with a blank slate. Right now I have roses, Wisteria, brugs, heather, hibiscus, azaleas, lantana, porter weed, and a few other odds and ends. My tulips and daffodils are breaking the ground, as well. I wasn't expecting them yet, but they're popping up.

I look forward to reading here, often.

 

[marlasmom]

OH how I envy you the daffs and tulips. If you are in zone 8 you could maybe have peonies and lilacs.

I have recently started collecting plumeria. If you like, I will tell you about a gardenweb friend who has 1000s of plants on 2 ponds in Bradenton. He is having an open house in April and always gives away plumeria cuttings and this year he is giving away 26 full grown trees so you can attend.

 

[dandave]

Good morning, marlasmon! I had to go to mapquest to figure out where Bradenton is. I'm still very unfamiliar with FL.
It looks like it's quite a ways from me, but I do appreciate the offer! I'm a very amateur gardner, and I'd hate to drive all that way to get something that I have a 50/50 shot at killing once I got it home. Thanks again, though!

 

[Snowwark]

We've talked on the F&GB about how nice it is to have plants in our gardens that have special meaning for us. I'm glad your rose cutting from "home" is doing so well, Dandave.

You have tulips and daffodils coming up!! That sounds so...so...spring like! Hard for me to imagine!

You have quite a few things going on in your "blank slate" already. I think your thumb is a little greener than you're letting on!

We're very glad to have you join us! We can be quite nosey at times...lol.

Oh, btw, if you have a digital camera, we love to see everyone's flowers!

 

[joeys]

Hi marlasmom

I moved to Longwood a year ago and also have become interested in plumerias. I stress the word "interested" because I have not been very successful! Out of five cuttings one has survived. They seem to just rot out. Do you bring yours indoors in the winter? Are they in the ground or pots? I would love to figure out how to get these things to take off cause I think they would do really well if I could just get them going. Thanks....