I know that there is a fragrant brugmansia thread here somewhere, and I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but I wonder if anyone knows what it's called. If you have any suggestions you'd like to share here though on fragrant Brugmansias, please feel free. I'd really appreciate it. The thread was so helpful but I let it get away.
I'm searching for the fragrant Brugmansia thread.
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/368191/
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/266306/
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/409312/
We do have a great search engine on this site!
Hit the "search" (found below the 'forum' tab), type in what you want, and the forum you want to search, it never lets me down :)
This message was edited Jan 10, 2005 11:51 PM
Thanks, I appreciate your help!
My favorite brug for fragrance is Arborea. I can't believe the smell it puts out. I could smell it 24 hours a day. It is my favorite scent in the world. Sometimes my entire yard in the evening smells of it.
Arborea is beautiful. I love the way the flowers curl. Is it fragrant only at night, and how much of the year does it bloom. Does it stay evergreen? A lot of questions, huh? Thanks for the help. I got to the other sites too. People are so helpful.
Arborea love growing here. Most of my outside brugs are now naked but not Arborea. She blooms pretty much 12 months out of the year for me. In the winter I have few but a bloom is a bloom so I appreciate every single one!
Brugs are fragrant mostly at night to attract moths to it for pollination purposes, or so I have read!! Sometimes in the day I get a pleasant scent but nothing like in the evening. The entire yard can be filled with their fragrance. Sometimes it is overpowering and at times the different ones clash.
The leaves on this one are fuzzy and the flowers smaller than most. Arborea tolerates the cold much better than other brugs, similar to sangs.
I bet it would love living at Stanford also! It would get a great education at least! LOL
Am going to keep my eyes peeled for this scented beauty. Thought brugs were created equal in the scent category. Have only read about them since becoming a subscriber to DG this fall. My neighbor has a couple in his yard and they are fragrant. But when kell says " It is my favorite scent in the world, " that make me REALLY want to get a whiff...
Some brugs have no scent at all, Soozer. Many have a sickly sweet scent that I do not enjoy much at all. Some smell like citrus. I think you will find all sorts of different ones.
Brugie found some Brugmansia fragranced oil to put in her lotion bars. I was so hoping they had captured Arborea's odor. But sadly, no!!
I wonder if this brugmansia-scented oil is in one of the little aromatherapy-type bottles widely available now? Maybe we need a celebrity to get behind an Arborea perfume. Can you picture it? I know you can smell it, kell.
Some even smell like fresh baked lemon cookies.
Brugmansia-scented oil? Where do we get it?
scent of....fresh baked lemon cookies...mmmm...oh, yeah...scented oil. Guess we'll have to rely on Brugie to report in on that brugmansia oil source?
As I recall, she was not that impressed. But I will let her report on it for accuracy's sake.
Just do a search for Angel Trumpet Fragrance Oil and it will bring up two or three sites where it can be purchased. I wouldn't but it if it is cheap though. I saw one place that had it for around $8 for 8 oz. I doubt it would be very good. With shipping, I paid some big bucks for mine and it wasn't good either. Pretty smell, but not brugmansia. Mine came from www.ffandf.com and I'll use it anyway.
Thanks, Brugie - is it the 'essential oil' (which is not really an oil at all)? The kind where you add drops to an water-filled atomizer or to a warm bath, etc? Just saw that on Rebecca's Garden. They added drops of the oil since it is so concentrated. Never have tried any of these oils, but her guest on the program showed how certain scents (lavender for relaxation) can change/improve(?) moods. Mint, for example, to perk you up in the morning. Hmmm.
Found it. Go to www.rebeccasgarden.com and search for 'essential oils' and there it is at the bottom of the list under aromatherapy. Anyone tried making 'liquid vapors' from brugmansia?
I love living at Stanford, it is beautiful here. You think that I could use a couple of Brugs with doctorates? I have two Brugs but I don't know the cultivar. They are peachy-orange-yellow and they are pretty bare right now. I have a friend who is fragrance crazy and wants to put several in as a privacy hedge. I think that mine are getting too much shade - we'll see what happens to them this year. Now I'm going to show my ignorance. What's a sang.?