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A number of years ago, being an old lady it's hard to try to guess, but has to be over 10 years and probably longer, I bought these basically sticks that were labeled brugmansia, aka angel trumpets. Anyhow, they were suppose to be a white, a yellow and a pink.
Being in a northern climate, I hauled these sticks inside every fall and repotted every spring. And they grew and finally bloomed. Much to my dismay, they ended up being two yellows and one pink, I really wanted a white.
I now have a total of 5, another that was labeled orange, but doesn't look any different my yellows and one that I accidentally cut off while doing the spring pruning and just stuck into the pot and it rooted, ended up being pink. The older 4 are now about 7 feet tall, the younger about 4 feet tall, and have always bloomed as 2 yellow, 1 orange and 2 pink.
Until this year. While touring the gardens this morning, imagine my surprise when I found a white bloom on the same plant as a orange/yellow. I looked at the base of the plant thinking that maybe there were two plants intertwined although I knew this couldn't be since I have repotted these plants for years. Nope, one base.
But won't complain, finally got the white I always wanted.
Anyhow, here's a pic of my first white bloom.
Being in a northern climate, I hauled these sticks inside every fall and repotted every spring. And they grew and finally bloomed. Much to my dismay, they ended up being two yellows and one pink, I really wanted a white.
I now have a total of 5, another that was labeled orange, but doesn't look any different my yellows and one that I accidentally cut off while doing the spring pruning and just stuck into the pot and it rooted, ended up being pink. The older 4 are now about 7 feet tall, the younger about 4 feet tall, and have always bloomed as 2 yellow, 1 orange and 2 pink.
Until this year. While touring the gardens this morning, imagine my surprise when I found a white bloom on the same plant as a orange/yellow. I looked at the base of the plant thinking that maybe there were two plants intertwined although I knew this couldn't be since I have repotted these plants for years. Nope, one base.
But won't complain, finally got the white I always wanted.
Anyhow, here's a pic of my first white bloom.