It makes me tired just looking at all you accomplished! Great job and your plants are probably happy to be snug in the basement tonight ;-)

Oh gosh! what a lot of work!
And would you believe it, I wish I had some of this work. I used to love gardening and all it involves. Now, nothing is gonna happen to my brug. It will just sit out there, all winter, in So. Cal.'I really don't know what to do with it. Do I still feed it during the winter months?
Ingrid.

Shawn
that is a lot of work, Congratulations on a job well done
next spring those will be huge
Elizabeth

Shawn nice going. 1st time I see the sunk in brug pots AFTER they come out.

I still do not know what I am going to do when my time comes.

Ingrid I see that you still did not get your answer about overwintering your angel. I don't know what the brugs do in Ca come winter. All I know is that you stop fertilizing about 1 month before you let them go dormant.
I would say to start your own thread with just that question . When and what to do in your zone in wintertime.

Lucy

Wow Shawn, that is a lot of work. Hope those with buds will soon open so you don't have to keep bringing them out!

Ingrid, I don't feed or bring in the brugs and they survive our winter. Just know that the leaves will all fall.

Eloise when does WINTER start for you? When do you stop feeding your brugs there?

Lucy

Thanks Lucy. I will do just that!! Great suggestion!
I think Eloise and I live in the same area.
Ingrid.

I brought mine indoors this week also. So far, they are still in the garage, but they will have to be lugged downstairs to the lower part of the house. Last year, I put some of them in the cold cellar, and they were okay for a few months, but I did lose a few, so I am thinking that I might have to establish another "holding area" for my brugs. .... part of my workshop gone again. ;-(

Well....I am glad I had this many in. I brought a whole bunch more in today....but there were still quite a few left out. I thought I would save the rest for another day, but then I found out we are expecting frost tonight, and I just finished getting the rest in. There are about 3 left out there in the ground, plus two in huge pots, but they should live through it, just lose the foliage. So sad that brug season is over for me, except for a few that I will lug in and out until the blooms open.

Shawn so glad you were able to safe most of your angels!!!

Yes, winter came way to fast, didn't it :-(

Lucy

Wow, that looks like a lot of work.

Lucy, we won't have frost for two more months and then it will be frost warnings. The next day we find out it didn't even get down to 40 degrees. This is why we put up with the August heat.

Glad you got most of your brugs in. Its getting close enough to that time to worry since last year we got a surprise in October and had a frost. Thats when I lost my wedding ring digging up plants in the middle of the night. Some years we don't have a real frost until its almost spring but I have a feeling this won't be one of those years.

When you're done you can come over here. It was in the 40's last night. Soon, very soon : (

Looks like your doing a great job Shawn!
Thats what I have been doing too! Got about 30 more to get
dug up.
It`s in the 40`s here at night too.
Karen

We didn't get a frost here, but some spots did. It is cold out, and I am betting there is a possibility tonight too, so I didn't set any back out. We are supposed to warm up a little over the weekend.

I trimmed & brought in the seedlings & Snowbank & other tropicals & houseplants & was prepared to cover my whole yard with frost cloth if necessary. No frost, thank heavens. Yesterday I drug them back out (except seedlings) since it is supposed to be warm for at least the next 10 days. Ludgers Windsong is still blooming, Inca Sun started & Daydreams will probably be next. They are all covered in buds so I'm hoping to see more before it all ends.

Linda