our introductions

for all our newbies:)
I'm tiG, and I've spent the last year collecting as many brugs as I could. I have several hundred seedlings right now, thanks to Eric and many others. I hope to spend this next year enjoying my flowers and setting seeds on as many as possible. I have over 35 varieties, but I'm thinking to whittle that down, and concentrate on getting more aureas and raising these seedlings to see what comes of them.

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Hi tiG nice to meet you again
Pete

I wanted to wait a while, but I'll jump in with both feet.
I will have somewhere around 40 varieties of brugs this year and plan on thinning out at the end of the summer. Wants are to come up with a deep pink double and a cross of Culebra and a deep color that will have that Culebra bloom and leaves. That should be enough for one summer, or three.

Shirley

Come on Irish, give us some information about yourself so all the new people will get to know you.

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Pete, you are not only a hoot, but you're a card carrying member of Brugmaniacs!! fess up!

I been growing and collecting brugs for about 4 years now....think I have about 60...not counting all the seedlings. My DH wants to know will it ever stop...what do y'all think?

I would like to welcome all the new Brugies to DG.

I'm Calalily(I know, I can't spell either). I have about 35 to 40 different brugs, not counting the seedlings I've got started. This is my first year pollinating the brugs and I've got close to 200 seed pods. I'm not known for patience and have cut a few of them a little early. I'm really good with the bandaids, nu-skin and duck tape, lol. I majored in Chemistry in college and it does help when the guys here get technical. I don't use the chemistry much at the green house, except to figure out ppm and ratios. We use environmentaly friendly procucts at the green house.(It sounds so funny for natural chemicals to be called "organic" when in chemistry that means that it contains carbon and includes all of the "bad" chemicals)

Liz here - I live in the PNW. I started about 4 years ago with 2 whites. Loved them - knew nothing about them. I don't remember how I found daves and this group but it's the best brug thing that's happened to me. I guess I have about 50ish now. The fact that I have them and that they're still alive I owe to this group. I've found though that the more I learn the less I realize that I know.
Welcome new members!

Welcome newbies
I started in July or August and became obsessed almost overnight.My collection has grown to 50+ named varieties and an uncounted number of seedlings.I will be trimming this number after I see them bloom.

Deb here - Kinda a newbie of about 5 months. I am a long way from having 30 - 60 some. I have about 15 and a few on order. This is all new to me and I can hardly wait to have atleast one flower and something to pass on to others, I have some seeds that I am waiting ever so patiently for to come up, thanks to a few awesome people above. Unless there was something other than the seeds in the dirt I might have something finally developing. Keeping my fingers crossed. I don't post alot, shy but I do read all of the posts. Great site and people to learn from.

Welcome to all, that are new on this forum :)
I am Tonny and I live in Denmark. Even though I have only got a few Brug. plants, my collection increased to additional 7 different hybrids/species (thanks to you people)and numberless recently sowed seeds.

In Denmark only three Brugmansia species are available from nurseries. All of them are labeled as "Datura", so ... this is paradise.

Since 1990 I have worked intensively with Datura species, their history and botany. In order to study the literature in this field and compare the (sometimes very confusing)theories to the actual living plants, I have builded up a large collection of Brugmansia and Datura seeds consisting of more than 200 accession numbers.

I know something about Datura, but when it come to Brugs I have still a lot to learn :)

Hello. My name is Linda and I am a brugaholic. I began dabbling in brugs last year when I first came to Dave's Garden. I stayed away from DG for a while, but they came after me, lured me back in by paying for my fix, shared their brugs with me and now ... now ... I am a brug addict. I see no escape...

...and I LOVE it! I now have five babies http://davesgarden.com/showthread/181501.html , cuttings promised in the spring and seeds on the way thanks to all the generous people here. I'd LOVE to learn enough to hybridize and help in the quest for the holy grail of brugmansias. I'm gonna' need some more room in the greenhouse, so DH went after the lumber for the addition to the greenhouse today.

I'm also into veggie gardening with a strong emphasis on heirlooms. I hope to start a nursery on six acres I own on the Hwy just around the corner from my house. I got a job at a nursery this past year in preparation for that. That's the brief synopsis on this redneck-hippie chick, how about you?

I'm Deanne. I retired from the Air Force 2 years plus ago and started with some seeds of citronella and cypress garden. That first year I lost the heat in the greenhouse and totally lost the cypress garden but the citronella came back. Then this past year, I started getting cuttings and I can't get enough. I have the plain jane plants but am working on the more exciting ones. I have some seeds planted that are just starting to sprout and I can't wait to see the flowers this summer. I love propagating and cross pollinating so I have done that and have some seeds and some more pods. I love Dave's Garden and have learned a lot! Thanks everyone!!

Georgiaredclay here{alias Jim} I had 12 brugs in the ground last year and none in pots. I started off several years ago with three and didn't have any idea of the name of them and don't believe they were on them. They were white, peach and yellow. The yellow smells like a lemon. I had bought several more a couple of years ago and then last winter lost several to the cold weather. I was given several by different people and now have about 20 in the ground, these
are mainly rootings from the ones i already had. This past fall I got smart and potted up some to keep in the house as a safety precaution. I made the mistake of placing them in a utility builing with a concrete floor and they got to cold and lost the leaves and part of the stalk. I brought them inside and have the dining room table up against the wall and the drapes pulled back on the window and the brugs baskings in the sunshine and putting out new growth. As they put out new growth I take them down stairs (3 story house with only two people, if the brugs die I will start taking in boarders)and put them in front of the sliding glass door to the patio with only morning sun. I have the name of some and some I don't. 29 in pots and in
all I have 49 and don't think I could handle any more unless I quit work and I love to eat so that doesn't float.
I also have datura and expanded a bed a couple of weeks ago of them. I have four of those in pots in the utility building and will start bringing them in now that I moved the brugs downstairs.
Maybe more than any one wanted to know.

Hi! I am Roz and I live in Gulfport, MS. I have only been a member a short time, but thanks to Glory, I have what I thought was quite a collection ---- I have about 10 or so with about five different varieties and I was feeling guilty about wanting every one I see til I read the other posts; now, I know I am a true addict to brugs. I am rooting some now, again thanks to Glory. You might say Glory is probably my enabler LOL or at least I can say Glory financed my collection since they all came from her except three that I bought at a flea market and a nursury going out of business. Had no idea what they were until they bloomed and I really thought I was the only one in the world with such a beautiful plant. Then I found out I didn't know nothing - brugs have a limitless beauty. Now I want them all. I love it here at Dave's Garden and want to extend a hearty WELCOME to all the newcomers and hope to make them feel as welcome as I have been made to feel. There is not a more generous or friendly group any where.

I think it is great to learn more about ya'll. I am pretty much a newbie.....only on maybe two months and just really getting into posting the last several weeks....thanks to tiG who realy encouraged me to not be shy!!!

I became addicted this past summer and started with Ebay purchases. I didn't know the first thing really about growing brugs.....and found DG through a search engine. Boy!!! Am I glad I did. I have around 20 plants.....all but three are cuttings (up to a foot high at this time....a brug forest in training) that are growing like weeds. Will have cuttings to share and trade this year. I want to learn about hybridizing, so that I too can follow that Holy Grail of Brugmansia.

I am just starting with seeds also. My backyard is filling up and DH is putting in another staging area for me this week. Of course he asks why I couldn't fall in love with lettuce or something small.....instead I get hooked on monster plants. But I have noticed that he is taking more of an interest now, since I have been taking more business trips and each plant is labeled for watering, he's out there late at night after work watering and fussing on them too. For Christmas he gave me a potting table....just goes to show that brugs can win over the hearts of even non gardeners.

I would be happy to offer a Florida home to any wayward brugs!!!!!!!

This is a wonderful group and I am so happy to be part of it!!!

Suzy

"...a brug forest in training." LOL! I like that! Welcome, Sharbot!

I am Anna from the tundra zone-cold, wintery Wisconsin. Zone 4. *sigh* You year-rounders almost make me cry. I want a greenhouse so bad I can taste it. I am just a novice in the brug business so far, have had 2 plants for 2 years, then last year bought two more, last fall went and "stole" 2 cuttings from an acquaintance's brug the night before the first killing frost. Right now I have 4 mature plants, but 3 of them are peach colored. Hopefully the one that didn't bloom last summer is either white or pink. I'm not holding out alot of hope there, tho. The stolen cuttings are yellow. I've gotten some nice cuttings last fall from some on this list, hope to have more colors this summer. I have 14 "brugs-in-waiting" on the shelf in front of the window in my bedroom. Right now the one I am wanting really bad is "Butterfly", which I ordered (and hope I get, since it's from LBJ). Hopefully, then I will have something to trade. I love these plants, they are so cool. Even my long-suffering spouse has commented on how good they smell in the evenings. Progress!!!!! I love this site, as all the knowledgeable people are here, and I don't feel dumb to ask dumb questions about these great plants. I'm hoping that sometime in the future somebody will think I know enough about them to ask! :>)

Anna Z.

Hi,you'll see me mentioned as "CC",I'm the quiet,shy one,and not addicted to brugs.I have 3 brugs and don't want anymore.Yeah, right!Actually ,I don't have 3 brugs,I have 3 rooms that I keep my brugs in.I have aprox. 30 seedlings as of this moment with lots more driving me nuts by not germinating immediatly.I have 20 different varieties,and always looking for more.I think between cuttings ,full growns and seedlings ,I have over 100 brug plants.I live in lake effect country ,north of Syracuse NY.I have been known to whine and snivel about this area.My greenhouse that my DH is giving me for Valentines should help so I won't subject you all to it....snivel,whine ,whine......I know I belong down south......

Snowhermit here and jumping in between the power outages due to the ice storm we are having here. I grew Daturas before I learned about Bugmansias.Thanks to a very special person here(Arlene)who sent me my very first Brugs I became totally addicted. I now have about 20 named Brugs and several different seedlings coming up due to the generousity of the growers on this forum.My main agenda this summer is to try my hand at crossing some of these to eventually come up with a dbl. Peach and the ultimate dbl. Pink.I have faith that with all the excellant growers here that someone will come up with these so we won't have to drool over the Euro ones that are now out of our reach.
I have a 12x20 greenhouse which I start heating around March 1st. I start all my veggies and annuals out there and will bring all the Brugs out there to give them a jump on mother nature due to our short growing season.

I'm a major brugaholic. LOL. Have over 60 varieties, hundreds and hundreds of seedlings, more ordered from Hodnik's. I've been growing brugs for 6-7 years or longer. Fell in love with them when I saw them in a garden in Ireland over 10 years ago. Took a long time to find them in Canada. I have one greenhouse packed full and a conservatory which is 18 1/2long x 14 feet wide x 12+ high being built right this minute. They are pouring the cement in about 5 minutes. YEH!! I'm also the painter of brugs.

I'm a brugaholic too. got my first 10 inch tall rooted cutting in june, 2000. now i have no clue....close to 40 with names, what i call them anyway. The worst thing that can happen is for someone to post about using roundup on brugs, someone will go nuts and start search & rescue missions like me, and end up with even more.
Wingnut, must be kindred, i an a redneck-hippie too.... Brugman, don't say a word!!!!! just kidding....
Brugmansia is our fearless leader and is sublimely leading us down the aurea trail, while i LOVE big flowers and versicolors...and aureas too and actually all of them.

Frannie here from SE Texas along the coast. I am really a new member (less than a month) but it seems so much longer than that because of the warm welcome that I received here at DG's. People here are very special and maybe it is because we all share an interest that is not only important but also fun to us. Since I am just getting started with my variety of cuttings, I cannot say what my focus for the future is. I will have to see what blooms become my favorite and what plants are the strongest and then I will be able to make some determinations as to what I would like to see in future brugs. I am exploring at this stage and it is fun.

I am also glad that this thread was started because I got out my pen and started writing everyone's name and their ID name so that I will have it for a reference until I have been here long enough to be acquainted with everyone. It was nice to have all this in one location.

I haven't counted my named hybrids...but after culling them I can say that I would be surprised if anyone on this forum did not have more named varieties than I do. Lets see roughly 12 types of aurea's if memory serves me...just 4 types of doubles, 1 white flowered flava, 2 types of arborea...so roughly 18 named hybrids in my collection from other hybridizers. Of course I still want Rothkirch and Quinde...but any aurea I don't have really....I must confess I don't have any clue though as to what a lot of my hybrids are anymore. Still, I like to put pretty on pretty as they say and hope for the best.
As for fearless leader...I do like Brugmansia and I may talk a bit too much...but the real leaders in here are those that make half way intelligible posts and post those great photo's with clear descriptions of just what is what. I am extremly gratefull to have found a crowd that is in love with Brugmansia's as much as I am or more so apparently as so many of you have so many more hybrids than I will ever have or think about. With everyone in here hybridizing I can only think that at least one of us will get lucky.

My name is Pam and I'm a brugaholic. I live in NE Texas, 75 yesterday, 42 today. I just found DGs this summer while searching for info on my Jacobinia. I found this forum, saw the pictures, and I was hooked. Ran right out and bought the only one in this area. Then everytime I saw a post for cuttings or seeds, I jumped right on it. Thanks to the generosity of members here I have a little brug forest all over my house. I have only had a few casualities, and most are looking really good.
Now if I can just keep them going until spring. Thanks to all the info here, I know I'm going to have success.
I have about 20 rooted cuttings and lots of sprouted seeds, and more I'm waiting on. If all goes well, I hope to be sharing with others this summer.

I felt like I was among friends right from the start at DG. This is the best group of folks on the net. I'm so excited about meeting some of you this summer in Tenn.!!!!!!!!!

Brugman - Didn't the aurea x Rothkirch seeds I sent you sprout? Mine have had great germination.

BTW: Seeds are still legal to and from Canada until July 22, 2002. The was a special extension, only with Canada.

Well here goes.... I got my frist brugmansia's when I bought my house here in Gulfport Fl. july of 2000 they are about 8 to 10' high and are versicolor peach fell in love with them and in my search for info on them I fell into this great group of burg lovers I now have about ten different types that are alive and one dead one :o(
I am in denile right now thinking that it will come back.
I am going to start hybirdnizeing this year well hoping for this month have lots of buds.
tiG this is a great idea glade you stated it
Pete

Kyle here, I started collecting and then hybridizing brugs in the late 80's...back then only four types were available.So the hybrids I achieved weren't as special as the types we see overseas..because of the lack of genetic material we had in this country.I have grown hundreds of seedlings and hundreds of brugs.Only now are new genetic lines becoming available.So now we have the opportunity to really develop some extrordinary types and colors.I have the last surviving plant of the `Tommie Lockwood Clone'The brugmansia (only one) that survived after the tragic death of this great plant researcher and hybridizer.The plant was resqued after Mr Lockwoods death.It had been slated for dewstruction along with all the hybrids and species that had been collected(1973)up to that point.Anyway..I have drastically downsized my collection after 12 years of brugs to about 50 plants or so and have moved into other vectors as well.

Eclipse, you have made some real beauties and take great pics. would you mind explaining the lockwood clone? clueless in florida.

Jean here from North Carolina. I spotted my first burg 2yrs. ago, as part of the landscaping at an aquatic nursery, of all places! What I saw was like a forest of these beautiful trumpets! Well, I was hooked and after looking everywhere, finally found some on ebay!

Then, a yr. ago I found DG, and was hooked again. When there was enough member interest in brugs & dats, Dave provided us this forum. My collection has slowly grown to 15 named ones and a few personal hybrids shared by generous members. Hopefully, I can add others, but in the meantime, I am growing cuttings to share with the next victims who stumble into this forum.

Oh yes, just harvested my first seeds and am staring holes in the other pods until they ripen. This is a great bunch of people with so much info to share and I am so happy to be here!

Jean

Hi everyone,
I started by collecting datura several years ago and became lured by the numerous varieties and their beauty. Last fall I became aware of brugs and traded for some cuttings. Well now I'm a brug junkie just like everyone who frequests DG's brugaholic rehab trading site.

I have some 40 plants new plants now and seeds planted patiently awaiting the seeds to sprout. Like Brugcrazy I live in Canada although I'm in Ontario just down the highway form Crestedchick who livew in New York State.

I'm a professed compulsive hybridizer of plants who is in denial and refuses to get help for this behaviour. I'm looking forward to the day when I can start to hybridize brugmansia.

I'm known on this forum to occassionally add "tongue in cheek humourous posts". I monitor the posts for obscene pictures of naked, leafless brugsmania and report such posts to Real Women Against Nude and Dying Brugmansia Coalition. I also write articles to keep DG's brug site informed regarding Husbands Against Brugmansia Addicted Wives and their political support with President Bush regarding continuance of the U.S. postion to disallow foreign import of Brugmansia to the U.S. I will post again with the date of the Million Addicted Brugmansia Growers March on Washington.
Joydie.

I am new to Brugs. In fact I've never had any. But, thanks to Glory, today I received some seeds, and I'm looking forward to experiencing the addiction. LOL! Can someone from zone 4 tell me how soon to plant these under lights? I'm itching to do it now, so hold me back if it's too early.

JoanJ, get started with them now. It takes 9 months or more from seed to bloom normally. Good Luck with them.

You got me laughing my butt off again!!!!

Brugcrazzy-yes they have arrived and if they germinate that will be exciting as well. Still, to have a Rothkirch myself and to germinate a few thousand of the Rothkirch seeds....ah, then I could select for the leaf types I like and dump the rest...hopefully not dumping the ones with color at the same time. Then, perhaps grow up 400 or so to maturity and then to be able to get just one of those to show something worth keeping in the first year. I don't generally keep a seedling past its first year. If I don't get it to bloom in that first year then it hits the compost pile. Of course I have made 1 or 2 exceptions before. I imagine the seeds you sent my Brugcrazy would fit into that category if they don't bloom early as they came from such a great hybridizer. As for your hybrids Kyle, I think any of us would be lucky to come up with any hybrid half as good as what you have already come up with.

Thanks Brugie, I'm off to plant them now! Yippee! I've been itching to start planting things, so this will give me the fix I'm craving.

Arlene,

Tommie Lockwood was the first hybridizer of Brugmansias.He had traveled all over South America searching for unusual spiecies for genetic material.He did a thesis for his degree at Harvard University on Reclassifying the Genus Brugmansia.He made many unusual hybrids of great beauty.He traveled after his Graduation from Harvard to several universities and herbariums to re-identify the specimens that they had.So much data on Brugmansias before Tommie Lockwood was just a bunch of miss-identified and renamed plants collected by explorers not researchers.He had his collection at the University of Ill. At Urbana Ill. after his graduation.He took a field trip with some students to Mexico to collect and research Daturas for his next project when he was killed in a traffic accident in Mexico.A real tragic loss for hybridizers.After his death Timothy Plowman (now dead) saved this one clone from the dumpsters.It is a white type of versicolor. Not (and probably won't ever be identified) named as far as we can tell.His data in his thesis was my prodding to hybridize these plants.Saved me from many pitfalls before the fact.He had done it all way back in the 70's.I have talked to his parents..and after hearing the story of his death..I went into a slump for several weeks after hearing the university destroyed all his work(plants)after his death because no one knew his methods and no one wanted to continue his research. Whew...That took a while..Hope it helps.

Eclipse, thanks for that info. I can't imagine them killing brugs!

Hi, I'm Pardancanda, but please feel free to call me John. This is a great opportunity to thank catlady, Pam, for roping me into Brugmansias under the pretext of sharing some of her Justicia/Jacobinia. She just 'happened' to have an 'extra' cutting of an unnamed white one 'lying' around...so, she included that as a surprise bonus. Imagine my surprise when it obligingly rooted in a glass of water, within days. It looked lonely, so Calalily provided companions...another 5 varieties; thanks Cala! That makes a total of six, not counting the seedlings grown from seed supplied by enablers Deanna, tiG, Arlene... thank you all! John