Join the club! LOL

This is how it starts. Oh, I have to have this one. Oh, it comes in 6 different colors, I need them all. Hmm, out of space. Vertical gardening is next. Shade plants under the sun plants. Oh no, frost. Bring them all inside (you don't have that problem in your zone). 12 people want cuttings so you have them sitting around rooting + the next dozen you started just for things you know you can trade them for. Yup, nuts. LOL

Linda

If you're nuts, so are the rest of us. There's always room for more plants!

I took the picture below at Zone 9 Tropicals in Houston last summer. The owner told me it started as a hobby that grew to take over every inch of space at his home on a small city lot. There are plants on the fence, the trees, and everywhere else there's an inch of space.

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LMAO!!!.. It only gets better from here!!!âºâº

Kylie

I forgot. When you run out of outside space, you get lights so you can grow them inside.

I am putting a lot of things at my best friend's again next year. She has a brown thumb & lots of empty space. I store my Brugs in her basement every year (over 200 of them + other plants last year). Look for a new friend with a large empty yard (preferably within walking distance to save on gas). LOL

Linda

AAHH Linda! A new friend with lots of space, yeah!
By the way, what is a "brown" thumb? Just space, no plants???
Ingrid

You could just accept that the patio now belongs to the brugs (who need a few more relatives for company of course).
But just think of when you do your indoor entertaining and open the door to your patio jungle and blooming brug perfume fills your domicile.
...might be worth the loss of that space
!-)
Will

My kid cannot play outside because there is no longer room. We just go to the park.

LOL Ingrid, you are well on your way with this addition! BTW, "brown thumb" refers to a person that can't hardly grow any plants or kills them. It's opposite of "green thumb" where what you grow thrives, like Lucy!

Ingrid I faintly remember you mentioning that ONE Brug is all you have room for. roflmao how quickly we forget about all of that when we see that there is so much more out there lol

Of course the 1st will ALWAYS be special :-)

WELCOME in the club of addicts. Did you really think you just joined a forum to get smart about brugs? ha ha ha ha ha

Lucy

My cuttings from Kartuz Greenhouse were shipped Monday but didn't arrive until today, Friday. Because of the holiday, I guess. I was worried about them, but they look OK.

They sent an extra Iochroma "Sunset" (orange) that I had listed as an alternate, but they sent it anyway.
I now have 6 Brugmansia and 4 Iochroma. I think I'm gonna have to move soon.

Ingrid

See how quickly things multiple, LOL! Which brugs and Iochromas did you get?

Eloise, Brugs: I only got one Charles Grimaldi but I have 4 rooted cuttings of my Candida Double white, plus my original Candida = 6 brugs.
Sorry, I only have 3 Iochroma : Fuchsioides, Cyaneum and Sunset.