Re: Datura HELP
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Datura HELP
- From: D* S*
- Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:30:59 -0400
Linda --
At first I thought maybe TOO much water, but then I remembered that last
year I had a "volunteer" Datura come up in the bog garden. It grew
taller and leggier than it's dryland contemporaries but was still covered
in blooms all season. The roots, though, did not survive the winter in
that moist situation.
Do you have any idea which Datura you have? I grow the old fashioned
Angel's Trumpet, Datura inoxia. It's a little more adaptable than some
of the other species and their cultivars. My "bog Datura"
notwithstanding, as a rule Daturas prefer a dry situation. Is yours in a
container or in the ground? If in the ground it might not be getting
sufficient drainage.
All the Daturas easily get 4-5' tall or more here in southeast Michigan
-- from here in the city out to the Zone 5 farm country -- where "hot and
muggy" is the daily weather report from mid-June to Labor Day, so I don't
think that's the problem. Check the drainage and cut back on the water.
Dean Sliger
Warren, Michigan, USA
Zone 6B
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 13:21:53 EDT Daisy522@aol.com writes:
> I received my first datura earlier in the spring, it's a good size
> and I was
> sure to get great blooms. The blooms did form, but before the
> blooms would
> open they dried up and fell off. HELP!! I have little (or no)
> datura
> knowledge so any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> (Yes, I did water it!!) Are their information sites out there? I'm
> hooked
> on these and Brugmansia and would love to learn how to successfully
> grow
> these!
> Thanks for your help.
> Linda
> HOT AND MUGGY Memphis.... Zone 7
>
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