Alright, I am succumbing...I must have brugmansias! I must have daturas! Lost most of mine two years ago and am really missing them now that I see them blooming everywhere! Anyone want to trade for small ones? Will do postage or check my list.
Gotta have some brugs!
I have dr. suesse(well rooted big plant) and charles grimaldi (well rooted big plant)and insignis pink (still rooting) and a large yellow candida rooted. I am very interested in a couple of things on your list. Email me.
Dott
I have a rooted white brug (unknown name) I would be interested in trading for a lady lavender passiflora plant.
Please email if you wanna trade. I live in Louisiana also.
OK - I give up - please tell me what is a Brug? :) What do they look like? Thanks!
This message was edited Jun 9, 2004 2:51 PM
Not surprising considering your zone, Gardengirl! Brugs are brugmansias, or Angel's Trumpets as they are commonly called around here in the deep south. They are so popular that they have their own forum on Daves - check it out to see pics. They would be large greenhouse specimens where you are, at least in the winter, but lots of people are so hooked that they grow them that way I believe!
Thank you Delphiniumdiva. I really appreciate it! I'm so jealous of all the plants that everyone can grow in their zones but I can't in mine!!
Oh but you can grow them in your zone! That is not the problem. It is dragging them in every fall and putting them back out in the spring! LOL
I have several that I need to give away.. lots of cutting .. most of them are rooted. You are welcome to have them!
uh oh gardengirl1204! LOL they are WONDERFUL!!! You should check out the forum, http://davesgarden.com/f/brugsetc/
or the PDB! http://plantsdatabase.com/finder/index.php?sname=Brugmansias&submit=submit
There are alot of people that grow them where they are not even close to hardy. I have quite a few of mine in the ground for summer. Come fall there should be some cuttings for postage if you want to give them a try.
Hey MiniSchnuz! I'm an LA girl too! I claim first dibs! :) Got any white or yellow? How far is Sulphur from N.O.? I'll come dig in your yard! (See gardengirl, brugs are a fever - stay away or you'll be using the mortgage money to build a greenhouse!) LOL. Seriously, if you've ever seen one in full bloom you will HAVE to have one. There is just nothing else like them.
By the way all - down here they've caught several teens trying to smoke the leaves and hospitalizing themselves. The news media, sensationalistic as always, kept describing them as "the plant Angel's Trumpet, which is CURRENTLY legal..." !!!! Made them sound like marijuana only worse. We may have to form a lobby to keep them from being banned! I'll make the T-shirts if someone can come up with a good slogan!
Delphiniumdiva, can you believe that ANOTHER set of kids tried to get high on brugs and were hospitalized, just a couple of weeks after those other kids wound up in the hospital?
What really ticked me was the television interview with the aunt of one of the kids involved, saying that the flowers ARE beautiful but to please, PLEASE, remove them from your yard. When I heard that, I imagined the 'brug police' checking yards all over New Orleans and pulling up suspect plants.
Instead, she should have pleaded with parents to prevent their kids from trespassing on other people's property and trying to get a cheap high.
It scares me when folks try to villianize one type of plant just because some people are simply stuck on stupid, and places the blame on the plant-grower instead of where it belongs -- on the drug-using trespassers.
Too true SweetPea - if we had to dig up all the plants that were poisonous, hallucinogenic, or otherwise unfit for consumption/smoking/shooting up we'd soon be left with a yard full of tomatoes - and even the leaves of those are poisonous, aren't they? I can't believe that aunt! What ever happened to "If you don't know what it is don't put it in your mouth?" Much less smoke it!