My Brug.

This is my Brugmansia,flowering three weeks later than last year,but with more blooms over 20.Considering the wind and rain he's done pretty well and been worth the wait.

 

Hey Roders. That is brilliant. I have a clematis in flower now. Should have been in August/September and cut back by now. I reckon all the gardening books will have to be re-written. :rolleyes: The winds of change are certainly blowing. :D

 

That's beautiful, roders, lovely colour ... is it scented? Yours and BM's seem to have done better than mine, probably because of your rain. Although mine is on irrigation, the leaves don't get wet. :(

 

Roders

What a fantastic plant, added to my wish list.

[ 14. October 2007, 10:04 PM: Message edited by: Keving ]

 

Me too roders..

 

Keving & Y D D if you want any brugmansia seeds drop me your addys.

 

Hi all,
I know most plants you can't eat otherwise you'll get pretty darn sick but I was very shock to find out just how toxic these Brugmansia's are.

I'm reading Dean Knootz's 'Forever Odd' at the moment and he mentions in the book about a sweet asian couple caring so lovingly to a Brugmansia in their garden and the main character calls the Brugmansia 'The Tree Of Death' in the book.

Are they really that bad? :confused:
Helen.xxx.

 

Helen no worse than 90% of other plants in the garden, the Angel's Trumpet (brugmansia) is in the nightshade family, same as tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, etc. It is a poisonous plant, but has come to have a rather exaggerated negative identity for this. It is no more poisonous than the tomato plant ! As with many poisonous plants, it can be called an hallucinogenic plant ... the problem is that there is a place at which the "hallucinogenic" becomes TOXIC. There is a lot of highly exaggerated negative information out there regarding the toxicity of the brugmansia. People don't realize that a very high percentage of all landscape and garden plants are poisonous. So we teach our children not to eat ANY plants, leaves, flowers, AND we follow the same rules. When you read or hear strange, strong stories of wild ways in which you can be poisoned by this plant, you can assume they are untrue.I handle them every day never bothered me.

 

I agree 100% with walnut here. I probably have more poisonous plants (bulbs are included in this category) than not in my garden. My cats' play area, the sand garden, is filled with them ... animals, well certainly cats, are sensible enough not to eat them.

I noticed yesterday the Poinsettias are coming out ready for Christmas and they will be in almost every household in the UK I imagine ... they too are highly toxic from the milky sap.

 

That is a stunning plant!

Deffinately one for my wishlist!

 

It is a nice flower. A posh version of a zucchini flower

 

Wow Roders that Brugmansia is something else! Does it have a scent? I'm definately getting one or two when I get a garden going again.

 

Yeah, walnut and the Lady are 100% correct. Think Lupins, Foxgloves, etc. I put 2 Brugs at the entrance of the pub I work in. The punters were enthralled. When the boss whinged about them being poisonous I just said to him, "don't eat them then". I've got them in the garden and the g-children know that they don't go anywhere near them.
When I was a child we were taught not to eat anything unless we'd grown it ourselves

 

Fantastic Brug rodders!

I planted a small one in a pot during the spring and took it into a greenhouse a few weeks ago and it's coming into flower now. Mine's white with a slight scent to it.

Heavy frosts forecast for today and the weekend - do you over-winter it inside or is it hardy enough to stay out?

 

IT STAYS INSIDE. Sorry to shout but that's important.