My Super Nova is looking, well just super right now.
Super Nova blooming
wow super plant for sure
Very nice blooms.
peony, I'm so glad you are getting blooms. Temperatures have been down for a few days here so I'm hoping my Brugs come out of summer dormancy soon.
Peony
what a Beautiful brug, the Blooms are so pretty
Elizabeth
Very pretty Peony!
Yes, she is looking super!.Beautiful!
Dee
Thanks, everyone. I love Super Nova, it is a willing bloomer and strong grower.
I think it is the rain and the cooler temps, Betty. Everything has one or two blooms on it. I hope we have a nice fall season.
Peony1066 Thanks for growing Super Nova. I haven't seen it grown in years. Everyone wants to grow the newer varieties but sometimes it is nice to see the older varieties grown.
I really like Super Nova. It grows out in front of the house in a smallish container. It is on cement, surrounded on three sides by the house, garage and wooden fence, so it is like a heat sink. It gets full on Texas sun for ten hours a day. As long as it is watered twice a day, it does fine.
That one is a showstopper. Thanks for showing us.
Is it true that Super Nova doesn't grow well in more northerly climates? I live the Appalachins in NC and the nights are cool, days rarely getting over 80 deg.
I'm not sure if Super Nova won't grow where it's cool. It grows like a champ in the heat. I think that generally brugmansias don't like the hot southern weather much. You could really do well with the "cool group" of brugs.
Now if only I knew what the "cool group" is........
You can find a little about them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brugmansia. At least you can find enough to continue your research on them. I know very little about them since I cannot grow them. I find them hugely beautiful.
The "cool group" consists of the following Brug species: arborea, saguinea, vulcanicola and a natural hybrid, flava. These species are called the "cool group" because they require cool conditions to bloom - temperatures below 80º. In their natural habitat, they are found in the higher and cooler altitudes. They can be crossed with each other to form hybrids.
Under normal condition, they cannot be crossed to any species from the "warm group" which consists of the species aurea, suaveolens, versicolor, insignis and the natural hybrid candida. The hybrids that most of us see and have are from the "warm group". The "cool group" can be successfully grown only in areas with daytime summer days under 80º and where summer nights are cool.
In other parts of the US, they will grow well until the temperatures hit about 85ºF, then they will die. Sometimes from one day to the next. If you can get them to survive past those first few hot days, the stress makes them vulnerable to viruses which will then kill them.
The flowers in this group are much smaller than those of the "warm group" and except for the arborea, which has the most powerful fragrance of all, they do not have a fragrance. The sanguineas, however, have flowers that come closest to being red. This is the group I fell in love with when I saw my first Brug in San Francisco. If I could only get my DH to let me air condition my greenhouse .... when pigs fly!