Brugmansias

[Mark]

Well most of my plants that are out in the garden are dropping leaves daily. Come the end of the month they will all be bald :cry: Anyones elses doing the same?

[charlie]

I normally start bring into the conservatory any that still look as if they may carry on flowering (not that I have a lot) at the end of this month, that way we can enjoy the scent, usually they carry on flowering longer than we want to sit out in the unheated conservatory!!

[Ade Shattock]

I have just had the worst year ever with Brugs, just useless with only Langenbuscher and Charles G bothering to flower and they werent all that.
Im going to bin the large plants now and going to do a couple from scratch again but not in the numbers I once did.

[Wayne]

Yep, leaves dropping, and if not dropped , they have been stripped off and stuck away in the greenhouses. Some are still out there because it's mild, and I'm holding out untiL I have to give up on another year of gardening.

It has been a strange year Brugwise, I've never battled against so many caterpillars. Bloomwise, I've done alright, but I have so many that I have a better chance than most people. :lol: The best time was August when I had 21 different Brugmansias in flower.

I really feel that too many hours of sunshine stress the plant, strange when you think where they come from, but a friend of mine had better results than me with his plants in only afternoon sun. The best results for me , where Brugs plunged in pots into the ground. They had much better growth and blooming habits than the one in pots.

One notable sucCess for me was my first warm hybrid grown from seed by myself. I had four seedlings of the same cross, and gave one to friend Terry to grow on his patio for me. Well the seedling grew into a 6ft 4 inch beast and threw out four blooms. Each bloom is around 12 inches across, waxy and the scent is very strong. I will trail it with cuttings for pests and diseases and growth before I can register it with a name!!! :D Hopefully she will colour up some more in the spring.

Wayne

[STEPH]

Your garden looks like heaven to me, so many in flower.

Tell me though, how much do you cut the tall plants back?
Say in centimetres out of the pot... 50cm 75cm?

[LONGK]

Wow Wayne - that is some display!

What is the Salvia on the left hand side of this photo?

http://www.pushingtheborders.com/phpBB/ ... php?id=121

[Wayne]

Hello Steph, I usually cut them down to above the fork and try and keep them at that size, make back up cuttings if possible. So I guess around the 4 foot mark, bigger than that I'll top them and see if the cutting takes so I can have smaller blooming plant. But it's always risky taking cuttings at this time of year!! :roll:

As for the salvia, I think it's called " icing sugar ", there also " Dysons Joy " there too!

Glad you liked the garden, it takes alot of effort, but I love the results when it happens, and do enjoy my evening snif-athons :lol: .

Wayne

[Chrisg]

Wayne, looks good, that last flower is a good size. I know you water frequently, but could the issue being that the pots that are not sunk get more stressed due to the pot warming up drying out etc while those in the ground will be more constant.

[STEPH]

A contribution to the brugs thread, Angels Pink Pearl a fave of mine, not many flowers this year, so it came inside before the storm hit.

[Wayne]

Chris, you have a valid point..I plan to sink as many as possible next year.

That's a nice one Steph, my wife really likes the doubles..so there will more around the patio, but I plan even more raised beds for the pure Aureas I have from Colombia, grown from seed. This Jan, an Aurea enthusiast gave us all seeds on the condition we didn't use them for hybridizing, no problem for me. Some growers in warmer climates grew and flowered these under 8 months with plants growing up to 8 feet tall. Whilst it would be great to grow them so big, it would only be for mature cuttings for overwintering for the following year. These Brugmansias are monster!!

Wayne