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

joeswife wrote:
Her face looks down on you as tho she were expecting you to kneel, and if I can, I do. The bugs seem to like her a little more, and she also enjoys first serve and gets the richer part of the mix from the sprayer. She sits in a nursery tub, but ts is a 5 gallon. she has plants at her feet as well. Her roots are already thru the bottom and she is anchored. I have small river gravel on top of her pot soil in between the other plants keeping her bottom cool. Since she hosts other plants, she really gets a special feeding, usually with a mix of super mega b-vitamins, epsom salts, fish emulsion, and superthrive as a snack. She only gets this when I see her budding. I do this for all of them.
You can smell these two as soon as you walk out the back door. If the neighbors would ever come out of their house, they would smell it too. I am so addicted tho their looks and smell, and the textures of their leaves, and their amazing growth rate, that I stay up late just to go out and look at them every 20 minutes or so.
That being said, I see it is time to go tell them good nite.