Re: Thanks for the Datura/ Brug advice
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- Subject: Re: Thanks for the Datura/ Brug advice
- From: M* T*
- Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 14:35:54 -0400
Linda, there is nothing Brugmansia love more than hot and muggy...try
one, they're grand plants. Feed and water it like mad and it will be
happy, grow huge and make delicious large trumpet flowers for you.
Datura meteloides has large - 6-7" diameter - white flowers, sprawls
into a rather large mound and has gray-green felted leaves that have
sort of a notch connection with the stem. The shape at the stem is
one of the ways to identify this Datura. There are several other
species, but I don't know which you have with spines on the
leaves...not Jimson weed?
If you've got D. meteloides, it ought to be winter hardy for you. It
is in Arlington, VA, but not for me about, oh, maybe 15 miles
northwest of there.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Daisy522@aol.com
> Date: Thursday, June 22, 2000 11:07 AM
>
> Thanks to all of you that responded to my request. I have gone to
the sight
> suggested and it is helpful. Dean, I do not know what kind of
Datura I
> received, actually I received 2. One was labeled white Datura the
other
> purple. Its funny because the leaves look completely different on
both
> plants. One has smooth leaves and the other kind of spiny(?).
> I would also love to get a brugmansia, but am very concerned about
trying it
> here. Our summers are very hot and MUGGY!
> Linda... Zone 7 Memphis
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