Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Is it ever going to bloom?, 1 by bettydee

bettydee wrote:
I was trying to add a drawing to my post and wiped out everything. Here goes. Look at the photos that Hellobebe posted. The first photo shows a leaf with the copyright words running into it. Look at the section where the leaf becomes a stem before it joins the stalk. The drawing I've enclosed gives a simplified version. On one side of the stem the leaf is attached closer to the stalk than the other. This type of leaf only shows up after the stalk has produced a "Y". Hellobebe's second photo, the leaf she is holding, shows both sides of the leaf, where it attaches to the stem are even. This leaf type only grows in the vegetative parts of the plant before it "Y"s.

I bought a rooted cutting of Charles Grimaldi this spring. It's in a pot and gets morning sun until 3:00 PM and shade the rest of the day. I noticed that the small section of the plant that backed up against the house didn't get as many buds as the parts that got direct sunlight. It had a really great first flush, but the color was not as intense as violabird's photo. It was mostly a golden yellow with small hints of orange. Lovely fragrance.

I'm a newbie at Brugmansias so the first thing I did was to buy Preissel's Brugmansia and Datura: Angel's Trumpets and Thorn Apples book and Monika Gottschalk's Englestompeten. Monika's book is available in German only, but it comes with and text translation in English. Don't buy Monika's book from Amazon.com. Theirs doesn't come with the translation booklet. Somewhere here in DG's you can find out from whom to buy it.