It’s easy to see why the common name for the dramatic Brugmansia is Angel’s Trumpet. These sub-tropical beauties offer months of flowers and fragrance.
Few plants have flowers as impressive and numerous as the brugmansia. Each trumpet-shaped bloom is up to 20cms long, all borne in massive flushes often every 6-8 weeks, set off by rain.
A Brugmansia tree in flower is a spectacular sight, usually accompanied by the noisy hum of a million bees. As a bonus most brugmansias are sweetly scented, especially in the early morning and in the evening. Can you imagine the perfume of those hundreds of flowers at dusk? Then after a brief rest, the plant surges into another growth spurt producing another enormous flush of flowers. This pattern is repeated all through summer and autumn. As the weather cools the flushes are less regular.
Brugmansia Inca Queen
Angel's Trumpets Potted - just stunning!!!
Tricolor
Brugmansia 'Frosty Pink'
Varieties For Sale
Bruce's Pink - $35 |
Bengal Tiger - $25 |
Allison Taylor - $25 |
Golden Lion - $25 |
Alba - $25 |
Tutu - $45 |
Wow! - Beaut double, $45 |
Sugared Almond's - $45 |
Angels Exotic - $45 |
Star - $45 |
Wedding Day - $45 |
Position: Morning sunshine is perfect for good growth and flowering. Protection from strong afternoon sunshine and wind prevents heat stress and wilting of the flowers and foliage.
Care: If your plant wilts in the afternoon, it will recover next morning. Not giving extra water when the plant wilts encourages deeper rooted and more self-sufficient plants. Contrary to its tender looks, brugmansia is quite tough. If your plant does need water, drench it deeply and infrequently.
Brugmansia can be fertilised each winter with a blend of 50 per cent compost, 25 per cent cow manure. The main pest of brugmansia is two-spotted mite.
Brugmansias can be pruned as standards to accentuate their long trumpet flowers. If your plant has grown too big you can prune them when they finish flowering. We don’t prune ours much except to train the growth into one stem, removing any side growths at the base.
In pots: If you grow them in pots, you need to repot every year because they grow so vigorously. You can treat them as annuals because they strike readily from cuttings.
Top Tips
1. Manure manure manure! Brugmansias are almost impossible to overfeed, and the more you put in the more you get out of the plants. Any kind of manure can be used, but if you choose poultry pellets balance them by adding some garden compost as well.
2. If possible protect from hot dry wind. The leaves, flower buds and the flowers themselves are quite easily fried.
3. Don't prune the plants unless there is some obvious need or you are training them to shape, and then don't prune below where upright stems first fork otherwise you will delay flowering.
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