The year is over early here in northern Connecticut. First frost last night. The rest of this week is looking good, but it is time to dig these babies up. I just don't like covering them every night. sigh.

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Sally, I'm sorry to hear your season ends so early. After little flower activity all season, many of my brugs are at full flush this week. I can't imagine a frost here right now!

Altho the depth of color & overall quality of blooms will decline in October, I should not see frost here until Halloween or later...sometimes clear up until Thanksgiving. By mid-October I will be working on prepping for winter storage.

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

Sally, I am so sorry your season is over. I am still enjoying my EP blooms, and have a few of my NOID pink ready to drop their skirts. Well, remember the lovely blooms and smell for next year.

Too soon, Sally, too soon !!!! Even though I have NOT had a good season, I really want the few that are flushing now to continue so I can enjoy then for a little while longer. I have had something happen this season that has NEVER happened here in North Texas ......... too much rain for my inground brugs. Three of them have very droopy leaves .... they will recover, but maybe not this season. MN has been so very deceptive this year ......

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

I can't complain about my brugs this year, probably my best year ever. Just over way to soon. I cut some very large (5ft) cuttings and stuck them in water in my greenhouse just to make sure I am not caught with another frost before I am through digging.


Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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Oh no Not yet! It will be here soon too. The leaves start yellowing & dropping when the days shorten so they know before we do.

Is frost early or on time for your zone?

Linda
Western MD
Zone 5b

it's really not a early frost, just we have been spoiled last few years with a late one.
I hope you don't see one soon. This week is suppose to be great weather wise here.

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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I am sticking my head in the sand so I wont see any frost coming.
Actually, I have a last flush to open on 9 out of the 19 Brugs and would only cover Shawnee's Legacy if frost was imminent. 3 more weeks and the work begins of bringing them in again .

Canada 5b
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I hate to think of the work ahead. Sometimes I wonder if it's worth it, especially when there is a hot summer and I have to drag the hose around twice a day and sweat through my clothes. Then during the summers like we had this year, with very little heat and way too much rain....fertilizer would wash away....and therefore no flowers. Just a lot of work any way you look at it. I know I'd miss them, but oddly enough...having less has been somewhat easier and I haven't missed all the extra work I no longer have. Actually, I haven't missed all the brugs either. My camera will last a lot longer. LOL!

ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5

I think you are like me Shirley in that you will always have one Brug in your collection, likely a fragrant and floriferous one. I am down to 10 and not looking for any further ones but if I had to get down to 1-2, I hate to say this but likely would keep 2 of Susie French's I grew from seed and have never registered, a pink with white throat that has Aurea in it and a Versicolor White.

Canada 5b
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I might be crazy, but I think some of the older hybrids bloom better than the prized brugs. Dr. S. and Jean Pasko along with Harlot and Versicolor Orange have been some of my heaviest blooming brugs. Rothkirch was a special brug that bloomed well for me, too. It was my favorite Aurea.

ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5

Rothkirch, and Jean Pasco are two of my most reliable brugs, they have a beautiful shape, smell great and flower over and over for me. But my heart belongs to Pink Beauty, I adore her size, shape and fragrance. We are suppose to frost again tonight, I have to get digging.

Sally
Zone 5b
heat zone 4
Enfield Connecticut



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I forgot about Pink Beauty. She was a great brug for me too...but it's been a few years since I've grown her. Sorry to hear you are having another frost. It just seems way to early for that.

ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5

Guess you can see my heat has returned...... so sorry about the early frost, Sally.

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas

Gosh, it's almost 10 PM here and you are still at 78 degrees, Carrie. We could use a little of that, tho our days are very comfortable right now.

ChSam (Shirley Morr)
Chariton, Iowa
Zone 5

Yes, we will have a time of these summer temps, then probably just a short period of the wonderful fall weather and then WINTER .....bah, humbug !!!!

USDA Zone 7/8
Copper Canyon
North Central Texas