Brugmansia

I decided last year I wasn't going to bother with these again, so a small plant I had just ended up left in the corner of the garden and barely got watered or repotted.
Anyway I felt sorry for it about a month ago and repotted it.
It's just growing away now,, they have surprising powers of recovery but doubt I will get any flowers this year.

I've been spotting some interesting new varieties on Facebook, but I think they are all in America.

 

@pete is that the Grand Marnier you sent me? Mine is huge now! It's been flowering on and off for a couple of months

 

Mine is in a pot too. The ones in pots have been suffering with this constant high heat. The only one not is the 'Charles Grimaldi' in the ground which flowers best November/January.

 

Yes that's the one.
They do get big even in pots, don't they.
Good yours is flowering.

 

And the scent is lovely. When I repotted it last, I accidentally broke off some roots and so stuck them in compost. They sprouted and grew, but I couldn't give them enough heat over winter.

 

They are waking up after the heat.

Last evening ... Buds on the Pink one ...


Charles Grimaldi is wakng too ...

 

I've got a 7ft one in a pot, had a few flowers over summer but it's just starting to grow fair amount of flowers.

Strong winds and heavy rain forecast for next week.
I now remember why I stopped bothering with them.

 

Ours have had a rest period as well but are now about to flower. I think it's the fourth proper flush this year.

 

Charles Grimaldi has awoken after the long hot Summer ...

From the Patio side facing South ...

In front of Shed door facing SouthWest ...

From the carpark area facibg North ...

 

Fantastic @Victoria ! My Grand Marnier will have to be pruned or I'll never get in the greenhouse - how tall is your brug?

 

Thank you Caroline. The scent wafts to the back door which is about 10 meters distant. It was pruned on 28 September. Assuming the shed door is two meters tall, four meters plus perhaps. I am about halfway looking each way ...

 

Gosh - that's a lot of brug! And even mine produces lots of scent, so yours must be amazing

 

And the warmer the evening the better the scent.

 

Exciting discovery ... first buds on the Variegated ... have no idea what colour they will be ...

 

The one bud disappeared in the storm the other week, but the other bloomed today, a very pale pink ... but all the leaves got eaten by something ...