Tropicals & Tender Perennials: Can I join your club, please?, 1 by Wintermoor

Wintermoor wrote:
Can I join your club and be a part of the clan now, or am I still just a wee lucky fellow to have bought a Brug and he flowered ;-)

The garden centre from which I bought this plant claimed he was from the Herrenhauser Gardens in Hannover, well I really couldn't care if he came from Babylon, just as long as he grew. They also claimed that his real name is Brugmansia versicolor 'Aphrodite', but you are going to tell me the real name aren't you? ;-)

This is the first time I have ever seen one of these plants in bloom, never mind grown one.

Pic 1. Here you can see the vein running along the pink….. oh sorry, that's my arm… here is a view of… oh well who am I telling here lol

Pic 2. During our storm and flood, he took a real thrashing, and was bent over at 90°, sadly he didn't quite make it back up to vertical, but he at least tried!!! The branch leaning out to the right, just broke off a couple of days later, this is now in two pots and growing nicely.

Pic 3. Here is my harvest of flowers from him this year, I was told yesterday that he may blossom again, but I can't see any signs of any wee buds coming out, so he'll probably just remain, (as my son called him), 'The Triffid' until next year.

*pwoud…. Oh yes vewy pwoud!!!*

Wintermoor