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Bruggesmania

An elderly man in the neighborhood has a huge garden of vegetables many
of which he sells.  He is Italian and has a home that looks like an
Italian villa on a small scale and in front of it are 6 huge brugesmania
"trees."  I couldn't help calling out to him and asking how he got such
mamouth angel trumpets, especially since it is certainly not a
Mediterranean climate here in Michigan.   He says he takes them in each
second week of October and cuts them back to a foot.  He stores them in
the basement and withholds water.  The he replants them outdoors in the
spring after it has warmed up.  He said he'd give me some of the stems
or branches he cut off when he cuts them down to 12" and I should put
them in a pail of water.  He assured me "They will grow likea grass."  I
put the stalks in water in pieces and almost every one rooted.  They
turned into wonderful subshrubs and flowered the next spring.  I put
them in the basement as he told me to and brought them up in February
and started watering and feeding them.  They just keep increasing in
size and blooms.  The new little leaves that sprout tend to get buggy
and you have to swab them down with alcohol every day but the ones cut
to a foot without leaves have no such problem.  Hope that helps.
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