bummer.. my brug I have been overwintering finally V'ed ... was hoping for flowers this year... and I got the flu in fall... and forgot about it in my unheated greenhouse... it's toast

I've never even heard of a varigated brug! Amazing!

MollyD

Sorry about your Brug Allison! I tried overwintering cuttings in water in my cellar which is supposed to be a great method but most of them died. I'll be lucky if I have 2 different brugs this year. VS the 6 I had last year.

A nice surprise though is my Bishops Children Dahlia tubers are sprouting! I didn't think they would make it through storage but they are making tiny sprouts! YAY!

YAY Steven!!

The only probem is I don't have any where to start them inside.......hopefully they will last a couple more weeks and then I can plant them outside in a new garden bed!

Boy, Steven, I can relate to that "no space inside" thing.

Karen

I'm also in the "no space inside" dilemna. I have so many darned herb/veggie plants started for MG, I have no space for my stuff!!! With the nice week we're having I decided an entire flat of thyme can move permanently outside (heck, my thyme plants survive freezing, they ought to be able to handle 50 degrees). I've been moving more tender things in at night, like patchouli and pineapple sage. As soon as night stay in upper 40's/50's, they're staying out also.

I already put a brug outside too, they say as long as its a few degrees above freezing they can stay outside so out it went. I still have more stuff to sow inside too a few more tomatos and japanese morning glories but am running out of room fast.....

What kind of thyme did you sow Linda? For some reason, I never thought of sowing my own ground cover will need to put it on my list as we're probably going to be making some new beds and it would be nice to have just one type of ground cover instead of my usual mishmash

Steven, I actually did an orange thyme (choice of the MG plant sale committee). It has a nice scent, although I don't really smell orange. I just scattered seed on my cells, and left probably 6-8 seedlings/pot. Everything is in 2.5" pots and needs to be transplanted as the roots are seriously out of the pots. I keep trimming it back to about 4" in height so I can get it to branch out. One of the easiest plants I have ever grown (sorry for hijacking the dahlia thread).

Sorry to continue the hijacking, but Linda, tell me all about your patchouli. I'm growing it for the first time this year. Where did you get seeds? Have you grown it before? Method/Secrets?

Barbara--my patchouli is a purchased plant I decided to try to overwinter under my grow lights. It got hugh, so I decided to try to root cuttings from it for our upcoming plant sale. I have a nice number of large healthy plants. My concern now is that the wonderful scent has slowly disappeared over the winter. A few experienced herb growers have indicated it might have become "chemically dormant" over the winter. I'm waiting to see. If you are interested in an unrooted cutting (or two or three) c-mail me (I have successfully sent unrooted cuttings, but am clueless how to send rooted ones).

So how far removed from "growing from seeds" is that? Sorry everyone!

Back to our regularly scheduled program.

I'll need to get some thyme seeds then if not this year then next!