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I got these earlier in the year from Wilkies. £2-99each. Worth every penny

look like brugmansia to me!! Bargain! ;D ;D

I know those as Datura.

They are really lovely (but, be careful, as they are poisonous.)

They can grow quite tall if you let them free out of their pots

Yes I have seen them in the canaries like bloomin trees they were

Our brugmansia is flowering as well. They're lovely but not actually datura -just closely related and like datura all parts of the plant are toxic.

What do you do with them in the winter

Ours is in a very large pot so we fleece it if frost is forecast.  Usually gets damage which we prune off in the Spring.

I try not to do pots and containers. But with the help of outdoor thermometers and creating micro-climates, I have find the most beneficial of spots for my plants.The Datura is in a walled garden  that very rarely drops below 8c, even so I keep an eye on the radio thermometers (cheap in Lidls) and with the help of some thermal bricks that act as heat sinks I can still have the datura flowering at xmas. I know fleece would be easier but most of the plants are no so large I would damage them.

But then again if you are from the frozen wastelands of the north, why waste your time.

Stick with your wallflowers and snapdragons ;D

Think I will edge my bets and put it in the cold GH with some fleece around it. I would hate to lose them. I'm in the midlands so in between

mine has finally flowered (it's from seed) ;D[attachment=1][attachment=2]

Most noticeable difference between the two is the direction the flowers face. Daturas look upwards, Brugmansias look down.

Amazin, hw are your Lidl Brugmansias doing?

My two are only 18" high and havn't forked yet, I was hoping for a bit better than that. :(
(They are in black buckits and get fed weekly on chicken pellets)

I've read they like a lot of water?

mine's 7 ft high in it's 1st year! a very hungry and moisture loving plant. ;)

My Lidls ones have been 'on hold'. When I first got them I transplanted them into slightly bigger pots temporarily while I sorted out a place to put them. Well... I'm still sorting.  ::)

Did you know they're incredibly easy to propagate from cuttings?

(I say incredible only because if I can do it....)

;D

Lovely one in the TV gardens in Kings Heath Park Birmingham.

Worth a look if your around that way.

Brugmansis were initially known as Daturas. However, because Daturas were associated with being poisonous they did not sell very well. Thuspart of the family was renamed Brugmansias. They are still poisonous but as has been said earlier the flowers  are pendulous whereas the Datura flowers point upwards. Daturas (Thorn apples) are normally annuals whereas Brugmansias (Angels trumpets) are perennials but not winter hardy. 

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V nice Tony