Re: Datura/Brugmansia

Don, thank you for the post...your peaches and cream brug is gorgeous..where 
did you get it?..I love the verigated leaves.....I have one brug that I just 
started growing..it is an unknown color since the gal that sent it to me 
didnt say what color it is..Im hoping to get it to bloom this year.....I love 
both datura and brugs.....Judy


> 
> The double purple variety would be Datura metel and also comes in 
> yellow and white.  This species has smooth leaves in comparison to 
> the similar, but more vigorous Datura meteloides, which has somewhat 
> fuzzy leaves, but comes only in a single, white color.  D. meteloides 
> flowers easily from seed each year for me, but the season for D. 
> metel is longer and the seeds rarely mature for me.  It's been my 
> experience that unless seedlings are quite small, or the plants are 
> potted, Datura dislike being transplanted, although it is rarely 
> fatal.  Interestingly enough, I have had an occasional D. meteloides 
> over winter here in Milwaukee if planted right next to a building 
> foundation.
> 
> I also grow a datura which is most likely a variety of Datura 
> stramonium, the dreaded Jimson Weed with which many of you might be 
> familiar.  However, this species, which reseeds for me every year, is 
> very upright, often reaching 6 ft tall with a "trunk" 3 inches in 
> diameter.  The flowers are smaller, only 2 inches in diameter, but 
> have an attractive purple throat.  See a photo at:
> 
> http://home.wi.rr.com/llmen/elsaldat5.jpg
> 
> Brugmansias, often called Tree Daturas, are a bit different. 
> Definitely tropical, they are taller, with flowers which hang 
> downward, as opposed to the outward facing Datura.  I have a couple 
> of plants which I can keep semi-dormant in my basement over the 
> winter.  For me, however, they seem to be sporadic bloomers - maybe I 
> don't feed them well enough.  One particularly attractive variety is 
> the variegated 'Peaches and Cream':
> http://home.wi.rr.com/llmen/peachesandcream.jpg
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Don Martinson
> Milwaukee, Wisconsin
> l*@wi.rr.com

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