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Brugs are sprouting
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Posted by
carrie751 z7/8 TX (
My Page) on
Wed, Feb 6, 13 at 13:42
| Since yesterday, I find some of my brugs peeking through the mulch. Hopefully, we won't get a really HARD freeze to kill them back. |
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RE: Brugs are sprouting
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| I agree, am worried that we're going to get our February sleet, ice and snow. Also have a lot of things leafing out, it's too early! Forsythia is blooming and starting to get leaves, must get cracking on roses that are just starting to show growth, etc. |
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| I need to go look under the leaves to see if I have any action. I keep looking at TWC 10 days ahead to see if there is winter waiting...and so far it says no. But we all know that could change quickly. |
RE: Brugs are sprouting
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| Probably in April, Cynthia. However, Easter is early this year and that is alway a good sign of an "earlier" Spring...............(she says hopefully)!!!!! |
RE: Brugs are sprouting
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we have had such a mild winter here that my brugs are greening up pretty far up the main trunks, rather than sprouting from he ground. I have not had this happen before so I don't know if I should cut them to the ground, or only to the living wood. Any suggestions?
Molly |
RE: Brugs are sprouting
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| I have no suggestions on this, Molly, as I cut mine to the ground each fall before I mulch. Cut a small branch and see if it is viable.........if so, I would probably just leave them and see what happens. What do you normally do ???? |
RE: Brugs are sprouting
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Hi Carrie, I have always cut them to the ground in the past, but this year the temps were so mild that a large part of the "trunks" are green and already have leaves sprouting. I wonder also if it is possible that the maturity of these brugs have made them a little more cold hardy and therefore didn't die to the ground.
Molly |
RE: Brugs are sprouting
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| You cut them to the ground in the fall or wait until spring?? |
RE: Brugs are sprouting
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Carrie, I have normally waited until spring to cut my brugs to the ground...I'm certainly no expert, however and I only have two brugs to worry about.
Molly |
RE: Brugs are sprouting
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- Posted by ruthz 8a dfw texas (My Page) on
Thu, Feb 7, 13 at 18:20
| I only have one brug inground, but I noticed today it has new green coming out. |
RE: Brugs are sprouting
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| Molly, my in ground brug got the stem tips nipped so I cut down to green wood and they are leafing out. They may get burnt back again, but look OK. The brugs in pots, that I move into the RV barn if a freeze is predicted, are already blooming! They haven't been fertilized since Oct., so it's no grand show, but blooming just the same. Jim |
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| my brugs have been greening up for a couple of weeks and the best blooms i had in '12 were in dec even my bougainvilla are budding out |
RE: Brugs are sprouting
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| Thanks Jim for chiming in as you and Molly are probably in the same zone. Waiting until Spring would not work for inground brugs here in North Texas. I thought Molly's brugs would be okay, but did not know for sure. ok, I am assuming your blooming brugs are in a protected area. |
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