Just putting on her colour today. What a beauty!!!
Monika Gottschalk's 'Rubirosa'
A classic beauty....
It is still cold in Pensylvania therefore the pale color on Alice's Picture, Rubirosa gets much darker when temperatures warm up as we have it now in Florida, here are pictures of Rubirosa i took March 19, 2011
Rubirosa
At Night
Wow! I didn't realize that Rubirosa was sooooo pretty! ♥
'Rubirosa' is a very pretty brugmansia.
My colours are lighter now, but it has been as dark as Burgele's. The intensity of colour is influenced by temperatures, nutrition, and culture.
I will probably get criticized for saying, but I do not believe that many of us give our brugs the attention they need to get them to their best.
I did not know that importance until I had to bring most of my plants back from death.
I learned a lot to grow them better and better in my quest to get them back to living again.
As a favor to those of us in the same boat you were in, pleeeeeease share what you have learned. My Brugs were caught in a rolling brown-out this winter that lead to the loss of all the outer row of plants on 3 sides of the greenhouse. Most of the rooted cuttings and those Brugs in small pots survived because this winter I placed them all in the center of the greenhouse closest to the heater. All the other Brugs were killed down to the ground. The greater majority of them have sent out new shoots from below ground, but those in the outer row are goners.
This is what the west side of my greeenhouse looked like in early February about 2 weeks after the brown-out. What did you do differently?
I am sad to see your frosted plants ):
If the soil in the pots did not freeze, most of them should come back from the roots again.
Some here took 3 months to come back, so don't give up too soon. As they came up and I saw life, I worked from there to bring them back.
Many of my trees were huge with trunks big as my arm. They died back totally. Most are back now to be getting good size again.
I never thought they would. But I know now brugs are tougher plants than I thought :)
Very pretty wish I could smell it I am all about the scent. Looks too has a nice form. Can't ask for any more!