Brugmansia ( Angels Trumpets)

I have more problems with blackfly on fruit trees, dahlias and nasturtiums.

 

I grow nasturtiums just as a lure for blackfly. The nasturtiums are unaffected, have great flowers but do the important job of drawing blackfly away from dahlias etc.

 

Hornbeam, any advice for getting rid of whitefly?

 

Hi LOL - you could try spraying with soapy water or see here http://www.greengardener.co.uk/softsoap.htm

 

Hello, Hornbeam! Thanks for that site address, very interesting and they may ship to Europe so I have e-mailed them.

I've really got a bad problem with them everywhere ... tomatoes, Brugmansias, roses, Penta and various other plants and shrubs! :eek: I tried the old garlic and chilli recipe but it was completely useless and stunk to the high heavens! In the meantime I will continue to use my soapy water ... the best way I've found is to flap the plant about and catch the little buggars with a blast as they fly up in the air! :D

 

Here I am again on this thread! You'd think we'd learn sooner or later! :rolleyes: My pink Brugie has finished its first fantastic display of trumpets, about a dozen of them, an is having a rest. The white one is still thinking about having some trumpets .... probably quit the horn section and forgot to tell me, ha, ha! :eek: The problem, if one, is that both plants have yellowing leaves on the bottom ... far too many I think for normal yellowing of the lower leaves. I am only feeding once every 10-14 days ... do I need to increase this? They are watered on the drip system twice a day ... with an extra splash if they start to flag.

 

You can't overfeed brugs.

 

Very true, they respond readily to a similar feeding regime as recommended for tomatoes ie. at every or every other watering. A balanced, general purpose fertiliser is best until the first flower buds appear and then switch to the high potash, tomato feed. Also, a monthly dose of a high nitrogen feed such as Chempak no2 helps keep the foliage in good condition. Of course if grown in the ground, they can be more or less left to their own devices if the soil is half decent and there's plenty of moisture. Nevertheless, more feed means more flowers over a longer period.

 

Thank you, Rich and DaveP. I shall be out there with the feed this evening. Probably need to put my BoPs on this regine also as they're getting masses of new leaves and I think the flowers should be arriving soon. The Brugs and the BoPs are all in large pots.

 

The brugmansia sanguinea that I have been growing has started to flower again, after its spring showing it stopped flowering and lost most of its leaves.
I'm sure it doesn't like heat, now things have cooled down its growing new leaves and a few flowers.
Not exactly a riot of colour but interesting, the flowers are a paler colour now aswell.

 

Where's that little green-with-envy emoticon.

 

Nice one Pete lovely colour

 

Very delicate, Pete. This one is in my Aussie book and it says it is the most cold hardy of the Brugs so you may well be right not liking the heat so much.

It's reported to grow at altitudes of up to 3,600 metres in its native Andes and to become a tree 12 metres high! However, it's normally seen as a many-stemmed shrub to about 2.5 metres.

 

I covered a cut down sanguinea with a large flower pot filled with straw last winter.
It survived, but regrew from underground suckers, its not however made enough growth to flower, due to the stopping of growth in mid summer.
The suckers do root easily, something that seems very difficult to do with stem cuttings, with this particular brug.
So, root cuttings could be the best form of propagation.