This is amazing. I wonder how old the plant is?
I found this photo while searching Google images for brugmansias. The credits only say "Brugmansia, anciennement datura. Jardin de Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japon."
I wish I knew more about the photo. Thought everyone would enjoy seeing it.
WoW---------------nuff said
no wait--more to say--lol I. D. this somebody?
From the info under photo, I assume it is in a greenhouse somewhere in Japan.
Can you just imagine standing under that? At night? Awesome.
A lot of work would go into pruning that one flat, while still keeping Y's. Not that it would stop us!
Beautiful. Would love to have something like that for the wintertime!
wow, that's one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Utterly amazing! Imagine sitting underneath a canopy like that in a room in the house....to die for! and its YELLOW, my favourite!
Looks like a job for a sleeping bag and cot!that is breathtaking!
Cool. Would be a daily job to keep the spent blooms picked up.
Im pretty sure if I had that, I would charge admission lol
I'd be more than willing to clean up the mess. can you imagine how that smells???
what KIND of brug is that?------------somebody tell meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?
Beautiful
Cool!!!!
Okay, who's going to be the first one to try it?????
Wow!!!!!!!
Gorgeous! Maybe that is how the pathway to heaven looks.
That is so neat. Would love to wake up looking at that every morning.
Bward, glad you found that photo and posted for the rest of us to see. It is beautiful. Donna
WoW!!
Liz....DITTO....glad I looked before posting same......
Bward,don'cha love the Google toolbar...... >^,,^<
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I was going to do an area out by the pool like they do in Mexico. They make a frame and plant vines to completely cover the top(wire frame on top). I may have to plant a brug too.
LOL. I was going to toss out who was going to replicate that effect here!
I wonder who Kell was thinking about?? lol
BUMP! BUMP! BUMP!
Oh yes, this is a beauty. Wish I had the climate that would afford the time to have one grow and bloom like this. Gorgeous. It would be kind of like those grape clusters hanging down and easy to pick only smelling flowers is a lot more fun.
hmmmm......I gotta move to zone 10. I wonder how long that took. That is coo-elle!
Playsndirt, it's hard to say which one this is. It has a pendulent flower so it could be a B. Versicolor. It could also be the hybrid Charles Grimaldi, or it could be Dr. Seuss, but the flowers look more peach to me than yellow. If this is an old plant, it may have an interesting and unusual lineage. I've never seen Brugs grown that way, but wisteria is often grown that way with the flowers draping downward.
Oh my gosh, that is beautiful! I am in zone 10. Someone tell me which brug would be the best for this? Maybe I should con SoCal out of a big cutting of frosty of go north and steal one of kell's!
I have been looking for an attractive way to shade Fiona's window but I am afraid she would be grown up before I got a brug as big as that! Lol!
Frogs, I bet you would be surprised how fast you could have one to shade a window. If I can get one to grow to 7 or 8 ft. in one season from a cutting, in Iowa of all places, I can only imagine what you would have in a year or two. Would be awesome.
and just imagine what it would smell like if you opened the window at night? ohhhhhhhhh to be in a zone that i could grow monster brugs in? sighhhh
Soooooooooooo experts. What would be the best brugs to use for such an undertaking? Most of mine are 4" tall so I can't tell how they grow. It would have to take our blazing sun too. What do you think? I am game to try it.
I would love to see a white mixed in with the pink flowers frogsrus! It would have this effect which I loved.
I will leave the type recommendations up to the members who live in the hot places!
Very pretty kell. When are one of you going to come up with a purple one? Lol.
I had a Dr. Suess that got very tall, but part of the reason was that I cut it back to just above the Y and then it had to send out a verticle trunk again that Y'd above all of that. I think it would have easily made a great tree to use for something like this. It is gone now, so I'll never know. Another brug that would probably get tall for you would be one from seed. You would just have to grow some and see how they handled your heat, but if you are in SD, probably most would work. According to my DH, San Diego has the perfect climate for just about everything. Want to trade places. I'd give up the winter for a few years, gladly. LOL!! Happy Holidays!
Come on down girl!! but trade? Never!! I guess I will have to buddy up to the neighbor that has them roof high out in the front yard. Maybe if I groveled and begged? Brugs from seed get taller than from a cutting? I guess I do have a lot to learn. I do not have a Dr. Seuss. There are many plants native to the east that do not grow here. It is just too hot and dry.
Have a great holiday!
