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Plantsman.

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Testing
« on: January 08, 2004, 01:29:30 »
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Looking good on preview - this is a Brugmansia taken at Clumber Park Nursery 2003.
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Mrs Ava

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Re: Testing
« Reply #1 on: January 08, 2004, 01:36:25 »
Gorgeous! Brill pic!!   Are they whats called 'Angels trumpets'?  And are Datura the same?  Fancied growing them in the conservatory as I have heard that the scent is something else.   ;D
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Re: Testing
« Reply #2 on: January 08, 2004, 01:37:39 »
Works for me............ ;D
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Re: Testing
« Reply #3 on: January 08, 2004, 01:48:40 »
Congrats lovely photo yep datura lovely thing got three young ones they got red spider this year cured with rhubarb must put that on the tips section.
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Re: Testing
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2004, 01:51:09 »
Yes, some will call them angels trumpets.

Brugmansias were seperated out of the Genus Datura and given the generic name of Brugmansia.

They have pendant flowers while those left as Daturas have near horizontal or erect flowers.

The Brugmansias are generally shrubby while the Daturas a more herbaceous.

Brugmansias are extremely easy to cross and there are now many cultivars and hybrids.
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Re: Testing
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2004, 12:08:53 »
...... and isn't the nectar an intoxicant...... Victorian ladies taking tea in the conservatory were known to let it drip into their cups!
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« Reply #6 on: January 08, 2004, 16:09:21 »
Here's mine Emma...grown a couple of years ago......poor quality scan , but gives you some idea of the size!!........and that's in the frozen North!!..........yours would be twice the size!!   ;D




Chiltern Seeds have an excellent choice of Daturas...
.......the intoxicating fragrance only develops in the evening....to attract night flying moths!!

I can recommend  "suaveolens"...12" white trumpets.....fantastic plant.........worth growing for the fragrance alone!!!

btw ....... you can do an "OZZY"  ;)  with the leaves.......very hallucinatory experience  .......( apparently!! )   ;D   ;)

Oops ...apologies Plantsman....your close-up pic is fantastic...really demonstrates the superb quality achieved by using a digi cam !!
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Re: Testing
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2004, 00:18:07 »
Wow Di! Your conservatory looks fab!!!!  And the Datura looks stunning.  Wow!
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« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2004, 10:55:54 »
AND a circular 'house behind! = Tim
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« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2004, 19:35:58 »
Hexagonal ....actually!! ;)   :) ........and an absolute s*d to erect...triangular roof panes as lethal as your sword.....Tim!!       ( and ...Yes!!..I like wigwams too!!  ::)   ;D )

Emma....like you ....conservatory = jungle!!  ;D

btw.....you can stand daturas outside in summer........but up here in the wilds the wind just ruins them!   :(
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