Another Brugmansia Bloomed.

This post is long overdue. It's a pretty pink bloom and all too soon it was gone.
Brugmansia Emily Mackenzie ?

Brugmansias are doing it again !

The rainy season at this time of the year and the cooler temperatures are helping the brugs to bloom once again. This time I see four bushes having blooming buds and there are still more to come. My CGers are so excited this time cos' they are buying 4-D based on the buds appearing on each bush. Well I wish them good luck and hope they will strike 4-D too.

Brugmansia Versicolor.

Brugmansias Buds Bloomed!

I remember it was only in August this year when I planted the one foot high plants into the ground. I thought I had to wait for a year before I could see flowers. But last week when I checked the plants I noticed that one of them had something different growing and realised that these were flower buds. Due to the rains I noticed that some buds had also dropped off. On Sunday evening I was greeted by two CGers who were working in the CG and they said that the flowers are very pretty as they had never seen such kinds of flowers before. One of them even asked if she could have a pot of such a plant and I just frowned at her ... LOL

These blooms greeted my dd and I when we visited the CG to do weeding. Dd was so curious and even took one of the flowers to sniff for fragrance .... it's sort of lemony she said. I did like wise and well .... the fragrance was very light. Maybe got to sniff the flowers sometime in the night to breathe in the more concentrated scent. Who knows ... and maybe then you find some strange on goings in the CG in the night ..... LOL

(It was written somewhere that the brugmansia flowers when eaten or sniffed at can produce a high in the human brain. The plant is not edible.)

Brugmansias Progress Pt.1

The five brugs are growing taller by the day. They are also getting more leafy and once in a while the leaves get bitten by some kind of insects but no great harm done.
I understand that I need to grow them for about a year to get the stems to branch out to the Y configuration before I will get the flowers. OK ... so I need to be patient and just keep watering , feeding and insect control the plants for the entire rest of the year till next year.




I believe I see the Y configuration in the stem branching in the brugmansia above. Maybe this will flower sooner than the rest.

Five Brugmansias On The Ground

Finally I found the ground for them. Thanks to a couple of kind GCS members who gave me cuttings to grow them in the CG, I now can only wait in anticipation for the flowers and heavily feed them till they flower maybe in a year's time.

Some More Brugmansias

A kind GCS friend of mind passed me three brugmansias some months ago and here they are in the CG growing in their individual pots. I thought the brugmansia plant had some kind of poisonous substance but it doesn't seem to deter grasshoppers and beetles from feeding on their leaves. My two earlier brugs had been attacked by these insects and somehow the growth of the plant is slowed down. I really hope the ones here would do better since they are the local growing variety. Maybe need to feed more compost and chix dung to them.


Below are photos taken from the GCS forum. These brugs are grown in Singapore by GCS members. Look how well they do in our weather here. So it's possible to grow them here. It's important to find the right spot for them to grow in the garden. They need lots of sunlight and a cooling place somewhere in the CG. They are heavy feeders too.

Brugmansias

I saw in the forum some postings about the brugs and the lovely flowers they produced .... gosh the flowers are huge and they look like bells hanging from a tree. Someone in the forum selling brug cuttings even posted the lovely brugs he planted on his pavement in Singapore. So if brugs can grow and flower in Singapore ... I suppose it's worth while trying to grow them too in the CG.

So two kind friends gave me cuttings and the brugs are growing in the CG.

Hopefully they grow well to look like the subsequent pics of brugs from Cameron Highlands. What a lovely thought to have flower bells hanging down from two trees in the CG and I heard that the fragrance they emit can make you do strange things .... LOL.