Memory Lane here *lol*

Just went up on the attic to look after the old paperboxes with my old Datura and Brugmansia stuff. I found my old Datura book where I summed up every possible experience. First note was April 20 1990 and the last one July 5. 1997. After that time I used either a writing machine or the PC. I also stopped drawing them as well, since I got the scanner together with the PC.

Here is my old notebook that I used from 1990-1997. It had all dates of the year in it and a summary of experiences per month as well.

One year two specimens of D. stramonium strated to form all kind of wierd looking flowers among the normally looking. It was not pollution or anything. I later found out that there just are so, but here I drawed every single branch and Y marking each flower after its type (I invented six types) and later investigated all the fruits to see if there could beestablished a coherence between the flower and the following fruit types. I had hoped to refine some od looking lines of them, I tell you *lol*

Tonny....I was only 10..LOL. I wonder what I was doing at 10? I remember trying to graft Purple heart onto Wandering Jew...with Sellotape..LOL It obviously didn't work! I also killed my mams Orchid plant...I thought she was keeping it too dry so I was secretly watering it..LOL I grew a Pumkin plant from seed...and also grew an Orange pip which I still have to this very day! :o))

First time that I ever saw a pink and yellow D. meteloides. There is a selection made from it on our website.

He, he :D Also in drawing I have not much sense of proportions he, :)

Gosh, Bruno, you was an early starter *lol* It it also fantastic to think about that you were already expermenting back then he, he :D I can easily imagine you left alone for a minute with a scalpel, purple heart and wandering jew *lol* However, never mind the result I find it so sweet that you cared so much for your moms orchids :D

What is an Orange Pip? Is it edible *lol* At five I took a bite of one of moms variegated houseplants and was nearly suffrocated. Not in good taste tho *lol* It felt like my throat collapsed, but that wasn`t as worse as when I was told not to put my nose under the Ammonium-Chloride *lol*

I quickly became used to spiny fruits and had seen the smooth one of D. tatula var. inermis, but this one looked very strange. The plant was also strange. Daturas grows like Brugs. First the vegetative part, then the two Y`s and the long flower branches. This new one we got from a botanical garden in Guadalajara in Mexico was rising directly ón a flower branch and it did this from seeds *lol* Knowing something about Brugmansias as well that was a bit of a surprise, because I thought. Eh ... what about the initial growth?

My first sanguinea pod. It grew to about the double size of this one and fell of.

I don`t know if the text slipped on this one. However, the first D. ceratocaula plants was pot grown and became 1.6 m. high and a lot of seeds dropped. Here you see, where they came back in May and June from seeds left-overs in the garden. That was where I learned that pot sowing is waste of time with that one. I learned the same about D. quercifolia.

From 1991, when Ruth and I visited Broch`s wholesales garden center outside Odense. This was Kirstens all over pride. A sanguinea. The week after the photo she had it with her to a flower show in Germany. At that time Brochs greenhouses was the largest Datura and Brugmansia wholesales here and made 63.000 D. metel varieties each year and a lesser number of different Brugmansia hybrids.

I must correct what I earlier said that B. aurea "Golden Queen" was purchased in the start of the 1990`es. I looked it up in the book. It was in 1989 *lol*

Here is the first time I visited Høst Duedahl-Andersen to see his strawberry trees and his wierd tree, that should have tomatoes on them *lol* It was love at first sight and deep awe. Like Monika he had all his Brugs in all year pots. During summer the pots was digged down in the flower beds and in the fall he just slided a spade down along the pots and up they go. It was not because he was lazy. He was 86 years old at that time and had a lot of stories to tell. His demens had slowly started when I first got to know him, but he took it humoursly *lol* He had this immense Ginko Bilobula in his garden and he used to harvest the leaves and soaken in alkohol. "Its good for the brain!" he said, "I know it probably won`t help, but it make it funnier to grow old" *lol* That was him in a nutshell.

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Here Golden Queen at Ruths and my place.

My first x candida. Some flowers was double other single.

First Brug from seeds. I drove on my bicycle from Sorø to Næstved that summer, a ride of 35-40 kilometers each way, but that did nothing. I knew that there was someone selling suaveolens seeds in that city, so of I went *lol*

Here is a picture of the large sanguinea tree at Høsts GH. It had paler and a long flower than the types they sell today. I liked it very much tho and grew a couple of them.

A Pip is the name for a seed in an edible fruit...I think! It was the seed on the Citrus Orange! I planted it in the garden today...because it survived the winter outdoors in it's pot!

I'll reply to your e-mails tomorrow! I'm off out now for a drink with Lorraine! :o))) It would be good if you and Lene were here too! LOL

We will have to do that another night. I am sure also the girls will have a lot to talk about *lol*

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you are so organized Tonny......... you amaze me. and such an artist! I am lucky if I remember to put in name tags on my seedlings must less write whole books.

*lol* Kell, I have forgot, where I put my brain and that is many years ago, so that is, why I have to write everything down *lol*

Tonny,
If I don't write it down it is completely forgotten.

Glory, when I write it down I loose the paper.

Tonny, what great stories you have!! It's pretty wild looking at your old books, kinda like discovering Christopher Columbus' maps, so intricate...amazing. Have you ever thought of writing a book? "The Discoveries of Tonny"...good name, eh?

MrPlantaholic...ummm, you were 10 when? And you were already attempting to graft plants? (I don't even know what that is, exactly) I didn't even try to grow my first plant until I was in college in 1977...it died, but that was a good thing...nevermind. So then how old are you now? Like 20? Gosh, another amazing youngster...have you met the other gardening wonder-boys?

I think I saw grafting on TV! I'm 23 now, It's unbelievable that at the age of 10 I'd come to my own conclusion that these two plants were related..never mind trying to connect them with sellotape..LOL....Who are the gardening Wonder-boys?

Hey, I'm only 25! So don't forget about the girls! :)

Angie, *lol* Seem that you was an early started too :) Good going!

I'll be 24 this year....gee, every year seems to go by faster!

*lol*lol* It will be worse when you get to 40 *lol* Lene and I was looking out over the fields today and suddenly I could remember last spring at this time, where the wheat had same height and the hedges started to green up *lol* A year had passed, but it felt like a cup of coffea ago *lol* It was a bit worse the other day, when we took the Brugs out for hardening up. That was like 5 minutes ago that we placed the Brugs the same place, after we took them up *lol*

Tonny, you aren't as old as I am and Bruno is just a kid compared to me.....you guys just wait. The older you get, the faster time goes. Seems like I get up in the morning and before I know it, I'm ready for bed and don't know where the day went. I never feel like I accomplish everything that I should have. Decided that when time goes so fast, I'm going slower. I look forward to the day when I have all my plants in the ground and all I have to do is water. Weeding isn't in my vocabulary. LOL!!

'Seems like I get up in the morning and before I know it, I'm ready for bed and don't know where the day went.'

Hmm...maybe this 'don't know where the day went' is due to another age related malody? *ducks* :)

Brugie...stay off the Brug-Tea for a while..LOL

You can laugh now Bruno, but in 35 years, you remember I said this. You too will slow down and it isn't a pretty sight or a good feeling. Sorry, but I don't think brug tea has anything to do with it. I knew I should have stopped having birthdays at 39. LOL!!

LOL Sorry Brugie! You think you've got a bad memory???...half the time i can't even remember what age I am! (LOL..No smart comments please..LOL)

They say maturity comes with experience and Knowlege comes with age...or is it the other way around???? Either way, neither of us are doing to badly..LOL