When you win auctions you'd forgotten that you bid on! I'd sniped a few brugs about a week ago and meant to cancel them. I'd completely forgotten about them until I was checking my email last night and saw a few "you've won" messages from ebay! lol Since I'd won those I figured that I should add on another to make the shipping worthwhile
Karyn
Know the feeling, Karyn. I've been making several trades in the past month. Just hope I can find places to put them. I do have a few coming out for nonperformance but that doesn't equal what I have coming in....LOL May have to buy a bigger place!
I got a New Orleans Lady, an orangy single that I can't remember the name offhand and double/triple white NOID. I added on the NOID because it was pretty and inexpensive and I wanted to make the shipping worth it.
Karyn
Jarie, a bigger place is not the answer ---- still have to take care of all the new ones, as well as the older ones. For me, it is winter storage, and enough places inground where they do not get too much sun.
Karyn, you have a problem ----LOL ----- and I don't know where you can go for help. Certainly not to any of the rest of the brug addicts on this forum.
The sun in south Texas is definitely a problem...along with being a blessing year round, Carrie. I'm finally creating a little shade but still many of my brugs receive pretty much full sun. Some like it and other don't. Figuring out the arrangement is an ongoing challenge.
A friend of mine in NW Iowa, who has a new home, has a remedy for all sun. They have no trees at all, so she uses Castor bean plants to make shade for her brugs. In Iowa they are annual and you would need a chain saw to cut them down, but they would make a great border on the west with brugs planted on the east side of them or even in between.
Funny you should say this, Shirley. I did exactly this for some of my brugs this year rather successfully. However, I have had trouble with the wind's blowing them over. They do get large !!!!
Lol, karyn, at the rate you are going you are going to have to start thinking about either growing everything in bonsai form or moving somewhere more tropical!! In a few years you will definitely be out of space.
I am approaching maximum density here too because I want to grow so many different kinds of plants.
In the last few yrs I've added tropical fruits and flowering trees, palm trees, vines galore, etc. My dh keeps saying, "these are all going to grow up"...I think its kind of like puppies, cute when they are little so I want loads but then when they grow up...yikes!
The brugs really aren't that much of a problem over the winter, all my tropicals are. To make matters worse I entered a low bid on a pretty plumeria the other day and won! Well of course I had to add on another to make that shipping worthwhile. lol I can't forget about the packet of mixed seeds that I decided to get from Country Garden either!
Karyn
lol, do you sort your mixed seeds before planting them?
I seem to have a problem too, as much as I've told myself no more lately, we went to wal-mart yesterday to get bubble wrap and I found myself wandering the aisles of the plant area thinking about getting this one, that one, and one of those, and.... Good thing the seeds weren't in, or else I would have been stuck there forever checking out seed packets. Oh, and I spotted a rather large Plumeria on top of a trash heap this past weekend, had to bring it home, we'll be taking some Brugs to the guy who was throwing out the Plumeria in exchange for some other cuttings.
Lynne
USDA 9b, Heat 10
Bradenton, Florida
Current Kanji: hana (flower)
Ummm Lynne, Seeds are now in at our Home Depot! Maybe you should check yours? LOLOL- Of course I'm not enabling...or feeding bad habits :D I did have fun going through seeds at HD the other day though.
Here you plant veggies in the fall, protect from frost (if it actually does) overwinter, then continure to grow warm crops (things like tomatoes, peppers etc,) till early summer. Peas and other cold weather crops we grow from Sept/Oct to March or so. Is it the same way in Florida?
Jarie, he said it is cream (ish) colored, and was tossing it because he wanted more color. I chopped it into a few cuttings and put them out to root. Hopefully at least one will make it.
Lenette, ah hah, Home Depot... I should check Come See Come Sav too, they always have seeds. No, I can't, I must not... lol!
We are pretty much the same here, I started preparing to plant seeds around the 1st of this month, Daturas were last week. I have a few veggies planned for sometime this week or next. After that I'll be rooting through my seed box to see what I have saved in there. Most of the little annual herbs and veggies seem to like winter better, by mid-summer they turn into crispy stems. Also, another plus is that during winter we aren't flooding, so I have a chance of being able to plant things in the ground and actually have them survive.
I think you mentioned in another post about moving plants out into the sun, I'm currently doing the same. I have a few "full sun" plants that can't handle it during summer, but now that the temps are dropping I can put them back out into full sun.
Lynne
USDA 9b, Heat 10
Bradenton, Florida
Current Kanji: hana (flower)
May have to buy a bigger place!
and we like it that way! 
