By Dawn's Early Light

This is my first year for these gorgeous plants and I know very little about them, other than I think they are fabulous. In May I purchased two pale yellow unnamed ones at a local California home center and a week later went back and found a double white. Each plant was about 24" tall in a 5 gal can. They are on their fourth cycle of blooming profusely and although I don't know their names they are my favorite new plant in the garden.

The pale yellow seems to be evolving into a wonderful two-tone cream w/yellow and yesterday some of the new blooms opened and are a fantastic dusty peach. Is it normal for them to change color or are they just responding to the fish emulsion I'm giving them? The flowers in the shade seem to be richer in color than those that get more sun, which makes sense if the hot afternoon sun is washing the front one out.

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Kell posted one like this and said it was a pumpkin color, I think hers' started out yellow also. Pretty one!

Wow! Great pictures. Your doing well with you new brugs.

Your doing great. Beautiful blooms.

Your brugs look great.

Great garden Happenstance! Did you get them at Orchards Supply?

Welcome to Dave's. Glad you found us. You came to the right place to learn all about brugs. We are in love with them here!

What other things are your favs?

edited so you do not think I do not know how to talk! lol

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Your brug looks great, so many blooms. Your garden is also just gorgeous. What a great place!

Absolutely wonderful, Happenstance. Brugs R Us here at daves. Have you found the brug database here?

Looks great. Yep, you are hooked now.........Welcome to the Brug forum and Daves.

You have wowed me again! Gorgeous! Did you see her post in water gardens?? Prepare to drool! It looks like a paradise. This is just a hint in the above pic. :)

aHappenStance, Beautiful garden and brugs. Your photos of the individual ones are so sharp and clear, great color. Welcome, Donna aka rutholive

Well, oh my......thank you for enjoying my brugs. It will be interesting to see how they do here with our monsoon winter and lots of WIND. My daughter and family live in Berkeley and brugs grow beautifully in many gardens and even in concrete sidewalks. I've always admired them and decided to give it a shot. I also have a 18" tall Brugmansia sanguinea 'Scarlet' that was a 4"pot a couple of months ago, no blooms yet.

Kell - I got the yellows and white at Yard Birds and the red I think I got at Alden Lane in Livermore....so many plants and so little memory and garden space. :-)

Liz - I did find the brug database and I ordered a wonderful book Brugmansia and Datura: Angel's Trumpets and Thorn Apples by Ulrike Preissel, Hans-Georg Preissel. Unbelievable images.

I saw some at Yardbirds in San Anselmo a few weeks ago! I have been to Alden Lane, they usually have the best Crape Myrtle selection. I may take a trip there soon to add another crape myrtle to my yard. I will look for your sanguinea. I wonder if it is the same one Annie's Annuals sells in 4 inch pots. Alden Lanes carries her stuff. Do you remember if it had her name stake in the pot?

Stake your brugs well and they should do well even in the wind.

Welcome Happenstance and it is so good to have you here among us at Dave's. It sounds as though you and Kell are not very far apart.

kell -

I found the tag and it is an Annie's brug. So I got it either at Magic Gardens(the one in Berkeley), Orchard of Lafayette or Alden Lane, just don't remember.

And as for the wind......we are in a location where it is really windy sometimes. A convergence of gusting winds last winter was 70mph in some places, but 90mph here. Took down hundreds of fences and took out approx 50 roofs....when it blows here it really blows. I can't count the times in the last 5 years our trees have gone down.

Again, thanks for the nice welcome everyone, I keep mulling over whether it would work to just fill up the front yard with brugs....:-) So far I've kept the front pretty simple and "normal"....even so I have people say to me all the time, "Oh, you're the people with the palm trees."

Welcome Happenstance, your yard looks like a paradise!

sounds like you make the rounds too Happenstance! With winds like that all I can say is good luck!

Very beautiful Happenstance. Welcome to Dave's. You'll become an addict like the rest of us in no time at all.

Thanks Donna, as I mentioned in my original post these are evolving from pale yellow to a two-tone and some now are the dusty peach. Here's a shot from the 17th of this month of the two-tone stage.

UPDATE:
My "yellows" have a name. I spoke to the Garden Mgr today and they are 'Charles Grimaldi. I'm so pleased to have a name for them. And I don't know how it happened, but 'Frosty Pink' jumped into the passenger seat as I was pulling away, she was mumbling something about 'Dr. Seuss' and how they got together and could she come to my house to see her kids. What could I say....she's resting in the shade on the side of the house.
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This message was edited Tuesday, Aug 26th 5:10 PM

Can't seem to get a link to stick when editing a prior post, so here's the link http://www.americanbrugmansia-daturasociety.org/brugmansia_charles_grimaldi.htm

Great shot.