Re: Brugmansia & Cannas?

Wonder Barbara, if you just are too far north to give them a long
enough season to bloom?  My brugs (except an old suaveolens in a pot)
tend to start setting buds heavily a week or so ago and bloom like
mad just before frost hits here in z7.  I'm a goodish way south of
you.  If I don't get mine in the ground by first part of May, I don't
see flowers except on suaveolens.

My old suaveloens blooms all winter in my cool greenhouse and then
sporadically all summer; the guys I put in the ground are either dug
up and plopped in a pot in fall or from cuttings made the previous
fall.

Also have read that some plants take at least 3 years or so from
cutting to bloom, so it may not be a function of season length of
latitude but age of plant, too.  

When do you get your first frosts?

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: WhtRos2@aol.com
> 
> Good Day!
> I've been putting this question off all summer --
> How do you get your Brugs and Cannas to Bloom?
> I feel really dumb about this.
> I've had these for 3-4 years in pots and they have never bloomed!
> Bring them in over the winter and try to give them as much sun as I
can in 
> the summer. Not all day but a good share of it. I also planted some
this year 
> at the nursing home where they are in sun all day and they haven't
bloomed 
> either. 
> Soooo...
> I ask you -- 
> what can I do to get them to bloom?
> And, yes, the Brugs have branched.
> They are 5-6 feet tall so plan to cut them back when I bring them
in.
> TIA and Best Wishes, Barbara
> USDA z5a, Rock Island, IL
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> 
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