I have a rhododendron planted in my brug island...there used to be a maple tree in the center that robbed the soil of water and nutrients & the rhody was unhappy. The tree is now history and last year I had potted brugs all along two sides of the rhody. This year the rhody has had the largest clusters of flowers I've ever seen it produce. Finally, it dawned on me...some of that fertilizer I was generously bestowing on the potted brugs drained down thru the pots and into the soil...the rhody benefitted from its close proximity to the brugs!

Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Funny how that works. One year I grew a Ricinus Castor Bean Zanzibariensis [http://www.damseeds.com/asp/Product.asp?PG=16272] at the end of a Brug bed and it grew almost 13 feet tall, almost to the bathroom window an a 2 story house.

Forum Editing Tech
Zone 5b

Yes, come to think of it, the few other plants (rose bush & privet shrub with a clematis growing thru it) on "brug island" all seem a little more robust than usual! lol

Patrick
Brug Moderator
USDA Zone 8b
Heat Zone 3
Sunset Zone 5
SeaTac, WA...one cool place

Funny how that works !!! A little TLC and more water and fertilizer and everything benefits.

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

I have a flower bed that always has the biggest healthiest plants and it didn't receive any special care. We finally realized that it was getting all the runoff from our compost pile.
Karyn

Well, that would also explain why the grass is thicker, greener, and grows faster around all of the big pots of Brugs, lol.

Lynne
USDA 9b, Heat 10
Bradenton, Florida