It will grow back and the new growth will come in much faster as the temps warm up. I put most of my dormant brugs outside yesterday and DH had put the actively growing ones out while I was away. We got the same wind storm last night and today. My plants are pretty beat up as well.

thanks Karyn :) you're right! I was thinking that afterward too. but on a positive note, the residual mild annoyance ended up motivating me to take care of a bunch of cuttings I've been meaning to pot up, LOL. I also snapped some branches off one of the Xenas from barry's house so I could get the damn thing outside, and broke the main Y off my super nova because it Y'd way too low and I didn't feel like waiting for a sport :P so if anyone wants some xena or super nova cuttings... lol.

Ria

Not looking for any cuttings just wanted to say..I feel for you...Wind does suck! I am glad you are looking at the postive..:) You got new plants out of it and can help others...How wonderful! Spreading smiles :))))) Ria you are inspiring! Hugs to you.....

*hugs!* :D

well, technically I didn't get new plants because of it - I was merely inspired to do what I had to do anyway because of it XD the parts the wind broke off were too tender to be rooted, but it's fine.

you can have some if you want though! LOL

Ria

Ria we had really really bad winds a few days ago. Same story. All the plants looked really beaten up but like Karyn says...it is just the beginning of the growing season. I am not worried. Kristy will just wonder why her plants are naked rofl. I picked off the beaten up leaves of course and her stuff all over the neighborhood lol

Now tomorrow night the temps go under 40 and next night close to freezing from what I gathered. Season has not started really yet lol and I am tired already.

Oh and I already broke the tiller today roflmao. FIRST time I used it hahahaha

Lucy

oh no lucy! LOL sounds like it was a bad day for everyone! :P well, I got a lot done today, so I can't complain :)

it makes me feel a little better that at least these chilly temps are fairly widespread this time :P average night temps here in the frosty north are still in the 30s for a while. I want my springtime now please :( nono, maybe you misunderstood - not later, NOW. lol...

Ria

hAHAH I hear Ria! Snow is so over the top..I can do without it...Especially after this winter I think we hit the record again in greenbay this winter..Lol I will wanna trade this fall for xena..She is a beuty and holds her head well..Lol

Lucy that sucks! Are you building a new brug bed? I hope you figure it out..It was great being outside today..I hurt so bad but wonderful! The plants are coming alive in zone 4...Yahoo frickin ehhh finally! I bet dweeb is happy in Illlinois..Lol Hey dweeb my brugs got a bath too...:))) (just kidding and playing happy smiles they got a bath too) Barb

Ria, so sorry to hear of the wind beating down your brugs. They will grow, but still one can't help but be upset. Last week, I too was quite upset. Not because of the wind, but because of a gardener I hired. He said for the first time, he was going to trim everything nicely. I assumed he meant trees/shrubs, but when I got home, he also cut down/back bulbs and alstroemeria that were sprouting, and other plants that would have flowered! My yard looks 'clean' but I like the jungle-look better, LOL! Mother nature and people sure know how to screw up our gardens!

I hope that was the one and only time you used that gardener. I would be so upset. What a putz. Do you think the alstros or any of the others will develop new flower stalks?

Ria, I'm sorry that happened, I feel for you. I was going to drag bunch out to get some "fresh air" and THEN, they're calling for snow here in Illinois.

GrrrrRRrrrrr. . . .

Beendaredonedat after HAIL storms here in Illinois. Every single year it happens to me.

You walk out and EVERYTHING looks like it got hit by shrapnel.

Big ole holes in everything, shredded, just the skelaton of leaves left on a plant. . .you look at this plant and say "that WAS a bloom I guess". . .

Just awful.

The beauty of Brugs, they come right back and FIX themselves.

Unlike my trumpet vines. The yard people thought they'd help me and "trim" them. They left 3 foot sticks sticking out.

4 years of growth. Gone. Don't know what to do now.

Morons. . . .saw that last week, came home, sat down on the back step and proceeded to mow through a 6 pack of my Killians to get past my anger.

Couldn't believe it. 4 years of waiting for some of the others to catch up to the blooming ones.

Gone. Poof. Just sticks sticking out of the ground now.

Nothing to cover that chain link now with beautiful orange flowers.

Talk about furious. . .I'm getting mad all over again. . .

that's horrible, I can't believe anyone could lack enough common sense to do something like that. I mean, they have to have SOME training or at least a rudimentary understanding of plant growth. but then again, the dork who moved into my backyard when we had to sell the lot used a hedge trimmer on jewelweed last year, LOL. we're still laughing about that.

have you contacted his supervisor, if he has one? you should make him pay to replace your damaged plants, maybe deduct it from what you're paying him? my mother had to do that one time years ago - the guy killed a rose or some peonies or something. really, is it THAT hard to ask first?

so sorry to hear that :( I hope you get some blooms anyway!

Ria

p.s. I dig the jungle look too :)

oh my god dweeb. that's HORRIBLE!

again - talk to a supervisor, certainly get your money back, and try to make them pay to have them replaced (even if the plant isn't really "dead," I dunno, at the very least you can use the money to buy some new brugs to comfort yourself :P). there's no excuse for carelessness - it's REALLY not hard to ask first. I hope at least you vented your anger to them!

this seems to be the official vent thread now, heh.. either that, or we've all had bad luck recently!

*feeble e-hugs*

Ria

I feel silly leaving three messages in a row, but I just thought of something dweeb - what do you think of passionflowers? I have a few incarnata suckers that came up unexpectedly that I could send your way if you want fast cover, heh. and I have a ton of morning glory seeds, too. between those two that fence will be green and blooms in no time :)

Ria

Morning glory seeds! Forgot about those!

Passion flowers? Passies? I didn't think of that either. Do they need a really long bloom period like Moon Vines?

The "jungle look" =- yea, they were overflowing, orange everywhere. This year the two lazy f***kers in the back were going to bloom with the rest of them this year. (Those took OVER 4 years) They gave me one bloom each last year. THIS year was their year.

THIS was the year of over flowing orange, on green vines, with my new green roof, and my new cedar siding. It was going to be gorgeous.

Sweety said I NEVER told them to touch those vines, WHERE did they get the idea they were supposed to DO that? He came to the door and asked me how far to trim them and I told them DON'T touch them, we've already pruned them, she even yelled at me about how I pruned one.

The guy goes "Ahhhhh, I better stop them" and took off at light speed around the corner of the house.

They destroyed them. Sweety walked out and said all he told the guy was "holy f**k, she's gonna kill you."

He said "just don't let her see them, wait until dark. Give her a Killians" and Sweety said "yea, that's gonna help." (This guy is the OWNER)

He emailed me and said "picture your worst case scenario, 1 to 10, what they did hon, is a 15"

I walked out there and all he kept saying was "I'm so sorry hon, I never told them to go near those vines, i'm so sorry." I just stood there, hand over my mouth, tears in my eyes. . . .

Took me 4 years to nurse the ones int he back to the point of catching up with the ones up here at the front.

The little boy on the other side likes to pick the orange flowers for his mommy. They love enjoying the flowers from their side when they sit on their back patio.

now, all I'm going to have is "invaders" as the main vines think they are "dead" and send suckers up everywhere. I didn't have a problem because I let the main trunks run all they wanted. Now, just these ugly hard wood trunks sticking up. No nodules at all for new vines to sprout from. Just sticks. Nothing to srout.

Oh man. . . . .and the part is, they were told YARD CLEAN UP, never said anything about "trimming". . they even trimmed my DEAD BOSTON FERNS outside. Jeeeezuzmaryjoseph. . . . .

ok, breathe, just breathe, (ah! that rage is rising again)

BTW I turned to sweety and said "you WILL find another service and fire him. and MAKE sure you TELL him it's because he KILLED my vines. Make SURE he knows WHY he's been fired. That f***ker knows I don't like HIM trimming ANYTHING around my house."

He said "oh, no doubt. I'll get us someone else."

He tried to invite sweety on a fishing trip, and then, tried to sell us TULIPS.

Sweety said "NO, I DON'T WANT YOUR FLOWERS, she's gonna kill you, she doesn't WANT tulips, she likes her FENCE covered."

I'll scrounge for some more morning glories, the purple ones. It's just, those don't keep flowers during the day. I'll have to smatter something in with them to keep flowers during the day.

Man my blood pressure is spiking again. . I should go water my cuttings. Fill my two 6 gal buckets and go out there and make a mess. That always makes me feel better.

Oh my gosh, I feel so bad for you all. I was just thinking I hope all my stuff blooming doesn't freeze and whining because we broke some of the brugs moving them back in. I'll shut up now, lol. I would kill those yard guys too. A lady down the street has her entire fence covered with orange cross vine and I keep meaning to get a few starts for my fence. Its really beautiful so I know yours must have been too. I'm soooo sorry.

I guess I am not the only one who hired a careless gardener. Annette sorry about your vine on your fence. Marian (lovelyiris) said when she hires help, she is right there with them. I could not do that as I had to be elsewhere. Anyway, I've gotten over it, and my plants will sprout again. I do have a different alstroemeria and spider lily bulbs that are elsewhere so might see a bit of bloom. I won't fired the guy just yet because I want to see if he will do a good job of just mowing and edging, which is what I hired him for.

I was out there this afternoon, and got to plant a couple of bearded irises, a daylily and repotted a Meyer Lemon. It felt so good to have time to do that, instead of rushing to mow the lawn myself!

Kristy, glad to have you back home, although you were never out of reach!

Lol, I probably broke Kylie's cell phone sending her pics. Could only get on the internet a few minutes at night and some mornings. If you have any extra alstroemeria when you divide them sometime and want to trade something let me know. Those are my favorite cut flowers. I like to cut my own grass because they always mess up something or spray grass all in my ponds. I only like them to weed eat and edge and I watch them close, lol. Will check into hiring some help for the planting this year if I can. The digging hurts me. Wish I had another pack of those steroids I took for my trip. I could have never done all that stuff without them. I actually felt normal again for the first time in ages. It wore off quick the last day. Should have saved a few for the unpacking and hauling in plants for the freeze, lol.

Kristy you have to be extremely careful with steroids and the dose must be titraded down or you can go into shock. They do make you feel great but also screw up your blood sugar, amongst other things. The worst thing you can do is pop prednisone without being on a schedule.

I think we should start a business selling punching bags dressed up as slack-jawed lawn care guys :P

Ria, I can just see us all taking out our frustration on a punch bag. We could tell the gardener, see what will happen if you mess up my garden again, LOL!

Kristy, I will look on what is left and email you later.

Thanks Eloise. Let me know what you would like to trade if you have any extra. Karyn it was one of those dose pack things but I have been feeling weird and sleepy since I finished them. Maybe its after affects with my blood sugar. I thought I had jet lag really bad, lol. Gonna go eat some fruit and go to bed. Thanks for the help.

After I came back, DH said a lot of times WOW to plants that grew back and have been there for a LONG time. But the gardener he had cutting the grass ran EVERYTHING down along with the grass too.

sweet dreams Kristy

Lucy

Kristy, is there a different medicine they can give you besides the packs that make you feel sleepy when they're done?

Like a low doze something? I don't know anything, but can't the doctor help you with that? Glad you're back home!

Re: the lawn guy punching bag - yea, I'Ll make us one and make it look like MY guy, and you can ALL take a whack at him.

Still can't believe they did that. WTF, they couldn't see all the stuff on the grond that I had ALREADY pruned?

Forget it, I'm not gonna waste hours getting angry again. All that does is give me heartburn. I don't even LOOK in that direction when I got out to the green room. It will just enrage me again.

3" thick sticks sticking out of the ground, 3' tall, whacked straight off.

Jacka**es.

Heya Dweeb. I can start some passion flower cuttings for you if you like. I'm going to be taking a few anyway, what's a few more??

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I'm so sorry to hear of your jacka** lawn guy. Has been my big fear in hiring someone to do the grass for me. Some of the crap these people do is unbelievable. Like pruning roses with gas hedge trimmers into a perfect ball... Every time I see someone doing that I just want to take that hedge trimmer and shove it up hi.... well anyway, you get the idea...

LOL, gas hedge trimmers. . .oh man. . . yell "go look in the mirror. See that? That's what STUPID looks like!"

Can I grow passies from seed? I'm gonna need something "fast" that blooms.

11 vines they did that to. 11 Trumpets. I'm going to watch for some "suckers" and see if I can't relocate them and try to get them to run. I can't even go dig at Mom's house because her house is for sale. So I can't leave these monster holes everywhere.

Staring down the barrel of 4+ years to undo what this jacka** did in 3 minutes. Still can't believe it. . .

Still can't GET OVER how stupid he was.

Stupid motherfu*cker with is clippers and his idiotic jacka** team. Just livid. . . . .

If you want instant vines, passion vines and corkscrew or snail vines would be my suggestion (snail vines are named for the shape of the flowers, not the speed which they grow.... I've seen runners grow nearly a foot a day!). Problem being that your winters would pretty much kill them both off. You'd have to take cuttings into the house each year with your brugs.

Dweeb are you talking about Campsis radicans (orange trumpet vine/hummingbird vine)? If so I can send you as much as you want. I spent 8 years trying to get rid of it and finally gave up. Now I just try to keep up with pulling out the suckers. That plant and cockroaches are going to be all that's left after a nuclear explosion! You can grow passies from seed but most will take a while to bloom. I don't know what zone you are in but there's not many that are cold hardy. P. foetida has been the fastest to bloom from seed for me.

I don't know if there is mild anything like the dosepack that they could give me but I'll ask. I just don't want to get blown up like a bullfrog again. I am so happy to be able to wear my old clothes again. Morgan is putting a lock on her closet, lol. We are the same size again.

LOL Kristy. That's WONDERFUL! I don't know anything about medical stuff, but if it made you feel better, maybe your doctor could find something safer for you to help?

I would hope he could.

Karyn, I'm in Illinois. And yes, Campis Radicans is what I'm talking about. And yea, it is pretty hardy (like the cockroaches)

LOL, I just wanted something STURDY to go on my fence. For something that is supposedly so "hardy", it sure took a long time for those at the back of the fence to catch up. Those particular volunteers from Mom's house must have been really young.

I'm concerned about the "suckers" now also. Now that they whacked the main trunks, I'm afraid they're going to run ALL OVER now because the main is dead. They will put all their efforts into running.

So, we're trying to decide if we are going to "shovel" prune them out, and find something else, or do I want to try to recover again.

They've got some climbing roses on sale over at Lowes. I bought 1. Thought I'd give it a try (although Roses and I don't get along)

I'll look into that passi and see if it is cold hardy here.

Otherwise, morning glories. The moon vines didn't bloom until very late one year with a freak warm October.

I was going to put down "tile" and some mulch this year along the fence so I didn't have any grass or weeds growing and make it easy with the trumpets this year.

NOW I'm going to have to weed that area again if I put down morning glories, etc. Last year, those idiots MOWED my morning glories down. Took out a couple of Brugs I put along the fence also.

Or I could just leave it uncovered. Just hate chain links. They're so ugly and unfriendly looking. But if I take it down, I'd have to go through the permitting process all over again to get another one.

Eh, whine whine whine. . . .LOL

I'm gonna look into that passi, and see what it will tolerate.

Passiflora incarnata, incense, caerulea and lutea might be hardy in your zone. The upper limits of hardiness is usually zone 6 or 7 for passies. With the campsis it doesn't matter if the main trunk is cut or not. They still send suckers everywhere. I've had them come up 20' from the main plant!

Karyn: REally? I haven't had that problem at all. But then again, I had let them do what they wanted along the top of the fence.

but I also "shovel" pruned around the base with a long spade shovel. JUST to stop them from trying to do anything really mischievious. I did find one runner, running along under the grass, just low enough that the mower wasnt' getting it. Lifted it, it must have been 20 feet long.

Said "naaaaaaauuuuuuughty nauuuuuuuuughty! CAUGHTCHA!"

But the deep spade shoveling has helped me a lot. Didn't bother them a bit. And I don't have "volunteers" popping up.

Guess I'm going to have to make sure I do that REALLY often now. Plant some stuff, hope they MAY come back, and if they don't, just yank them and find somthing else.

Maybe some euonimous (I didn't spell that right, I know I didn't.) Or that really nasty ivy stuff. But I think I get too much sun for ivy there. Sure would be pretty though. Wall of green.

I was thinking about putting that stuff in it, that holds water, like hay straw inserts. Try to make a "living" wall of green. But everything seems to want more shade than sun.

Anette, Do trumpets sprout from cuttings? I am going to get rid of a huge (& I mean huge) orange one. If you can root them, I can roll up all of the long stems & mail them to you since they should be flexible enough when they are green. You can have all I can roll up & they should be long enough to unroll & cover you since they more than cover my 6 foot fence.

Linda