Do brugs planted in the ground have a life span? My oldest brug is going on 7 years old.
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How old is your oldest Brugmansia?
My oldest tree was 17 years old. He got too heavy for me to move and I had to raise a new one.
The Tree of Charleston is now 13 years old and the oldest of my Allee Trees.
Fandango comes next. I have to replace the plants from time to time because living in Zone 5b, I have to dig them up each fall and when old, they are too heavy for me.
This message was edited Mar 30, 2006 2:32 PM
Gee Xeramtheum, I think they can live a long, long time. . I have been the one to do my oldies in, I think they would have lived forever. LOL I had a sang that was really old. I had it for years and years and years. I didn't even know what it was. Same with an ugly Frosty type, it was old and it was ugly. LOL. When I realized it was so ugly late in its life, it finally got dug out. I have a double white that is old now. I remember getting a cutting from a neighbor. That was years ago too. It is in a little corner of my yard so I never see it. I was back there the other day looking at it to cut down. It is huge I am going to put in fancy hydrangea there so it has to go. It is a mite carrier too.
Here is the trunk of my old sang. The leaves started to get mottled and I couldn't stand to look at it. It was a HUGE bush/tree!
Some of my old ones are pretty pitiful looking right now. The trunks look like yours Kell. I have chopped them back each fall but in the spring when they start blooming they are beautiful. By fall I just look past all of the ugly stuff and put them up for another winter. LOL Some of them are ten or twelve years old.
Betty
I have a Charles Grimaldi that is about 14 years old.
Wow Kell that trunk is huge! I guess I'm lucky in that my old trunks are no bigger than 2 inches across. I can usually knock off last years stumps (the grey ones in the picture) with a hammer. They always come off clean too. I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to do that!
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these trunks are almost 8" in dia
notice the size of the root ball & the 10" flowers on the ground
this Brug is maybe 25 years old
Dick
