When someone says its time to trade I want in on a Rothkirch...hint... hint.....
Wanted 1 Rothkirch...will trade
don't know if they still have them at nativehabit, thinking about ordering one. btw, tomorrow i am going to cut up your plants!!!!
Ahh, I would guess not Arlene. Bet they had a rush on those beauties.
In my catalog it says "Available Summer 2002?" My guess is at the time of the catalog printing, they didn't know for sure if they would have it or not. However, this is volume XIX 2001, but I received it this month.
NHE is having a hard time reproducing A. Rothkirch..slow and unstable when rooting.
:( I was going to put in my order tomorrow.
I ordered it last year and they didn't charge on Visa for it, they sent a postcard saying "it failed again"
I have it ordered again this year, but not holding my breath.
You must be tricky to root Rothkirch. The roots are very unstable, their growth is much slower as of any other Brugmansia and rot much faster. Its easy to cultivate when you know about the problems.
Geeez, How come the most wonderful brugs seem to always be the hardest to grow? I guess we'll always want what we can't have. I wonder if NH would sell you un-rooted cuttings. I bet you guys could get it to root.
Monika,
Please share your rooting secrets with this one. Do you cold root, hydroponics, let the cut end callous over while the cutting remains buried in cooler soil...? I would love to have a chance just to kill a cutting. Do you think NHE would send cuttings for us to try killing? I think I can, I think I can...oops...there goes another one.
Eric,
I saw your wish of the RK on the Yahoo board and forwarded it to our fewllow Brugmansia lovers of the Danish, French, German and English Brugmansia forums. I would also have done this at the Garden Web, but I got "Disney`ed" some months ago *lol*
I think, that most retailers have it sleeping at this time of winter, but what I hope for is, that one of our members have got it in a warmhouse or in a temperate cellar :)
I hope you are right about that Tonny, sleeping through winter, and here for us to trade for in spring!
Good ole' USA.
Tonny, the disney thing only lasts 3 months...i know from experience! i would love to drive down to vero someday, has any one called to see about getting cuttings? i am sure eric could root them. wonder if they have enough cuttings to co-op.
Hibiscus, I think, that NHE already have them and also LBJ, but I am not 100 % sure, if they started to sell them. I hope so, or else I hope, that one of you like to import some ... the double pink group will have good use of it to make or improve the initial crosses and to reuse for improvement of the generations of DP yet to come :)
Arlene, if you could look`em up in the USA it would be a lot easier *lol* Thank you for your efford. I apprecate, your intention :)
Tonny, they have them at vero, that's where native habitat is...think a couple of members mentioned calling them, hadn't heard back, if they haven't called i will. that cutting idea might be a good idea...i know eriic could do it if he can root a piece of culebra measuring less than one inch and very green.
Tonny
Native Habitat is where I've ordered it from for 2 years now, still do not have one!
Gloria
I had a Rothkirch but managed to kill it. So sad. Got it from Hodnik.
Barbara, that is sad. did you get to see it bloom? hope you have a bunch better luck with your brugs this year, safe imports etc.