A few pictures of last year's Brugmansia's

Victoria - your Iochroma is outstanding!

 

Wayne you have some really good plants there, I think my favourite would be the double orange one.

I've only every dabbled slightly with brugs, up to now, due to the red spider mite problem.
Hoping I have the beating of that for a while.

But thanks to Davygfuchsia, I've now got a few named cuttings on the go, so hoping to get some decent plants this coming summer.

 

Wayne, I have mine trained as standards but it's probably easier for me as they are permanently outdoors in sheltered areas. I'm doing the same with the D metel 'Blackcurrant Swirl' although I did let it seed itself at the base this past Autumn.

Thank you longk, it has one cluster of flowers on it now but most of the tops have been damaged by the cold nights. For the life of me I can't get I australis to grow here ... Pete has kindly sent me seeds and a massive root but I am not having success with it. The Cestrum is covered in flowerheads at the moment.

I too am using Empsom Salts and sometimes feed with Calcium and Magnesium tablets but have never heard of Molasses ... I like it too much on pancakes to share it with my Brugs ...

 

Evening Wayne .
Do I see you have them plunged into the bed with a pot still on .? Mine just get so large to house as I grow lots of other indoor plants as well.
I took large stem cuttings last autumn with them already forked .They rooted fine so am awaiting to see how they fair this season.
Just going to pick your brains if I may ...
What compost due you use and what is the largest pot size you keep them in ? Do you have them all in the ground or some potted?

Dave

 

Long cuttings?

 

DavyG.. I do plunge them in pots with holes cut out of them into the raised beds, so they can send their roots out and down. Then I can lift them out in smaller pots and over winter them.

I also do the pot in a pot thang! Get bigger pots with cheap top soil for weight and it acts as a small raised bed to plunge a smaller pot into.

Saying that I'm getting my poor brother to build me more raised beds from decking , again using topsoil for the bulk of it, but good gritty compost for the pots. Plus I really feed them.

Pete, what Brugs do you have..got any pictures?? That double orange you like is Langenbsucher Garten, LBG for short. Really beautiful flowers with a strong citris scent, a longtime favourite of mine. In the summer I'd be happy to send you a cutting as it gets to be quite a large bushy plant.

I'm experimentating with taking large forked cuttings in a bucket, and so far it's going well. Some brugs take so easily , while other's turn to mush.

I'm growing Brug seed for the first time this year, they are hybrid crosses that were sent to me..going to be fun seeing how they turn out!

Great talking to you, think I'm going to be happy here.

Wayne

 

I only really have cuttings, which I'm overwintering, which Dave kindly sent me late last summer, Wayne.

I'd really like a cutting of LBG when the time is right thankyou.

I have had some success with sanguinea in the past, but dont have any plants now.

 

Let's see Dave's..it's great to see people's plants!!
C'mon Dave

Wayne

 

Green with envy!

 

Thanks Longk.
It was killed by the frost a few weeks later.

After growing Sanguinea on a couple of occasions and only getting limited spring flowering and later summer/autumn vigour I decided to plant it out and go for broke.
It flowered like crazy, for a sanguinea, in November and early December.

The sudden freeze then killed it.

 

Kinda worth it just to grow it really well once though................

 

July. My only purchased one - it may be an unknown type but it flowered continuously for over two months, and then were on to flower more times.


November. Many of my seed grown Brugs had flowered by Now. I was so pleased to get several pink ones.


November. Not a bad mini flush for one grown from seed that year.


August - bags of arborea fruit - looks good enough to eat.


Oct. Goodbye sanguinea. Perhaps the most beautiful of all the Brug types. The previous year it flowered inside the house for a long time over the winter. But I had to let it go. I can't be doing with winter flowering plants.


November. My yellow one is now inside the house to overwinter - once again in flower.

 

"bags of arborea fruit - looks good enough to eat."

Sweet Dreams !!

 

"I can't be doing with winter flowering plants."
...
"November. My yellow one is now inside the house to overwinter - once again in flower."

What ARE you like? !!

 

Hi Wayne .Not got photos of all of mine ,but heres a few










Dave