Tropicals & Tender Perennials: My Back Yard Adventures with Brugmansias 2010, 1 by joeswife

joeswife wrote:
Here she is two days later from the picture above.
I like her cute face alot. She started off pure white and in two hours had her pink ring around her skirt.
She smells like my deceased Mother In Law sometimes. I like that too. She withstood 99 degree heat and no rain for three weeks, but she did recieve lots of spraying and feeding. She is on the South fence, with a few trees from the neighbors, and their overgrown Spirea shrub that I have mixed with Sweet Autumn Clematis, Major Wheeler and John Clayton Honeysuckle to weave it all together in a canopy, with a stray morning glory or two giving spots of colours in the ams.

The only other brug blooming on this 6 block area of town is Kaitlyn. She is about 20 feet down west of her.
Isabella is planted in a 3 gallon nursery pot, sunk into the clay ridden soil ammended with compost. She has some plants at her feet and some cedar mulch on top of her soil in the pot. I haven't had to mess with her alot. She seems happy to get a shower around 7 pm or so. She usually gets the spray using Kens Mix in an applicator set on Shower.
Because of her closer location to the house, she gets the spray a little more heavier, than her neighbors further west.
She has attracted snails and slugs, but I use Sluggo and that helps keep the activity down with a non toxic pellet.I mix the sluggo into the top of the soil and under the pots' sitting space where the roots will cement into the ground. I like it when I can't move the pot because of the roots. I use netting under the root ball and leave the edges sticking out on each side of the spot, so I can just water and lift the pot out this Fall. ( I can see my son coming over to help me now)
If I get a Pod ( I don't even know if two female named plants can be parents at this point, since I am new at brugs)
It will be from these two only. I am afraid to try to use a paint brush, since we have so many hawk moths, sphynx moths, lightening bugs, and ants all over things at night. The little tiney waspy looking fly or bee that they are , hang out in the flowers, but they don't move much. I have datura inoxia blooming, but it is clear on the North Part of the yard.
I do not think those can make a pod at all. Hope I am right.