Re: Brugmannsia

on 10/30/02 3:55 AM, Liz Runciman at lizr@bigpond.net.au wrote:

> B x candida 'Grand Marnier'.  It's pale apricot and scented, so
> I'm looking forward to it flowering.  I'd be interested to hear if
> any listers know or grow it.
> 
> Liz
> 
I grow it here in interior Los Angeles. It is wonderfully scented and blooms
a lot, especially this time of year when the temperatures cool down. I don't
know if anyone else has tried this: we have two of them growing in front of
our house, planted at the base of old fig trees. They grow up through the
figs and bloom up top, where we can enjoy them from the second floor
windows. From my husband's open studio window on the second floor you can
inhale the Brugmansia and pick figs!

It seems like the Brugs like the shade they gat at their roots, and the fig
tree acts like a scaffolding for the long growth that the Brugmansia sends
out. Almost seems like they may hav e some sort of similar situation in the
wild????

You do, if you plant them this way, have to put up with waiting for the
Brugmansia to come out to the top for really profuse flowering. This doesn't
take too long though, they grow like crazy.

Of course this method is also probably a kind of solution to having the
Brugs in a hotter and drier climate than they really would like.

Laura
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