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Angel trumpets (brugmansia)
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Primsong
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 2:38 am Post subject: Angel trumpets (brugmansia) |
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How many of you have managed to get flowers from an Angel Trumpet? Do they need another one around?
All I have is one "snow"- something-or-other... it is supposed to be hardy for my area (zone 7) and has lovely variegated cream and green leaves but nary a flower have I managed to get. I'm wondering if I should let it be a houseplant this winter and see if the prolonged warmth makes any difference.
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cajunbelle
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 3:22 am Post subject: |
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I have gotten blooms from several Datura's, a friend of mine gets blooms on her brugs, a peach and a yellow, and a house on the way to work has about 10 white brugs across the front of her property and even with no water they were blooming. I am in zone 8b
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glendann
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I have one that has never bloomed and one next to it has bloomed all summer but no blooms at this time.Mine is yellow and orange.
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Droopy
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: |
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Our Brugmansia flowered, despite the fact that it had to live indoors all winter, and the summers here are cold.
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Netty
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| Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2007 11:50 am Post subject: |
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I got a Brugmansia this summer and it didn't flower. But it's still small and I am patient. 
I am wondering, though, what is the best way for me to over winter it?
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Droopy
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Ours stuck it out in the living room at twenty+ deg C all winter. The best is probably a heated green-house of about +10C.
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bethie
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| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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My brugmansia bloom very well, kind of late this year though. The one I have can take temps to 44F so I let it go dormant and it stays in my stormhouse all winter. It stays jusy above freezing down there.I use this for lantanas etc. It makes me very happy NOT to have dormant plants in the house, they look kind of ugly to me.
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glendann
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| Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:42 pm Post subject: |
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My Angel trumpets stay in the yard all winter.I cut them back and cover the base with lots of good compost.They come back in the spring bigger and better.
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seedfreak
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Joined: 29 Jul 2007
Location: Coastal South Carolina
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| Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 1:34 am Post subject: |
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Mine haven't bloomed this year. I know they are getting enough water thanks to an irrigation system ( I got for mothers' day), but still no flowers. If thy don't bloom soon, I may have to move them to a hotter sunnier spot.
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glendann
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| Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 5:27 am Post subject: |
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Mine only get morning sun as they wilt bad in the hot sun all day and didn't
do well at all.I put then in front of
my cedar tree and the evening sun doesn't hit them at all.I do have one that gets full sun but is doing great this year as it has had so much rain and is at the base of my compost pile and came up from seeds off my shoes I think its been growing and blooming and is getting huge.It only blooms at night.It has white blooms.
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zuzu's petals
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Joined: 19 Oct 2006
Location: Coastal N.Carolina ~zone 8~ (Map)
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| Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:57 pm Post subject: |
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I feel that the very high temperatures this summer have caused my Brugmansia plants
to bloom far less profusely than usual.
It is a fairly common trait in hybrid Brugs to slow down in growth and bloom less
when the weather gets hot.
Versicolor hybrids, in particular, tend to favor cool evening temperatures,
so I expect those to begin to bloom better as the heat relents this fall.
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glendann
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Zuzu mine has bloomed really big twice this year with so many blooms each time.It was a much cooler summer here
than normal.Since it has now gotten so hot the yellow orange ones has stopped but the whites and purples haven't been bothered.
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zuzu's petals
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| Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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You all sure got plenty of rain and cloudy days this summer, huh Glenda? 
If that held the heat down, it could definitely help with the Brugmansia blooms.
It sounds like maybe your whites and purples might be Daturas,
which (you're so very right) are not bothered by lots of heat. 
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glendann
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Yes ,Your right Zuzu.We have had lots of rain.In fact we have had rain every afternoon.We got about an inch and a half yesterday.I can't get my yard mowed again and the grass is so tall.
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dirt2diamonds
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| Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 7:51 am Post subject: |
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Just purchased an angel trumpet this fall and hope for success 2008.
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