Brugmansia sanguinea

I'm getting really excited now - my B.sanguinea is about to bloom!



It has suffered from new flower buds dropping lately - could this be as a result of the extreme wet, or maybe the cold nights that we've suffered lately?

 

Well done, mine is sulking
Looking foward to seeing it open

Wayne

 

That's fantastic LongK. Its extreemly early - is it inside?

They say that sanguinea drops its buds if it gets too hot - perhaps its that.

 

Thanks chaps!

It has been outdoors for at least two months now, so not too sure that could have got too hot!!!!! All a bit of a puzzle, but I am rather inexperienced with them

 

Came home from work and it was open!!

 

Beautiful

 

I bought it as a wee thing back at the end of February for a fiver JWK................

 

I'd wanted one for a while, so when I saw it I had to snap it up!

 

Keith, your box looks similar to the one I bought at Aldi a couple of years ago for €2,95 ... but it turns out I have a David ???? which is a heady-scented yellow one which currently requires watering five times a day. I'm not complaining.

 

I'd have the right hump about that, although it is easy to jumble the plants around after they have been put out on display.

 

To be honest, I am quite pleased as I don't think the B sanguinea can take the heat here.

I just love that red Passion Flower also, do you know which one it is? I have had trouble germinating P quadrangularis and P foetida, but can't get rid of P caerulea much as I try!

 

That may well be a fair point Victoria, but no need to gloat about it!!!!!!!

The Passion flower is P.alata - it is struggling even in the greenhouse, but has a few small buds forming.

 

I think if it had been warmer you might have even lost that one, I always found you get a few spring flowers and masses of buds forming in Autumn.
They love the rain.
I had one I planted out, flowering right up until the first hard frost killed it in December, a few years back.
So cold nights wont make the buds drop, but hot sun will.