Tropicals & Tender Perennials: The Making of a Brug Standard or Very Large Cutting!, 1 by diamond123

diamond123 wrote:
Hi Janet, very good question! these are called standards, many plants can be made into standards. What that means is that there will be a main trunk that is completley devoid of foilage with a canopy of leaves and blooms and flowers at the top kinda like a umbrella if you will. Brugmansia is a tree and when we grow them we have a choice of letting them get bushy or shape into a standard. We do it to roses too!

Here is a picture of a yellow standard at night

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