sammyqc
grub
Urban, small raised beds, Zone 5 (Canada)
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Post by sammyqc on Dec 10, 2007 23:07:43 GMT -5
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Post by Alan on Dec 11, 2007 0:01:54 GMT -5
Beautiful pics, thanks for sharing!
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Post by flowerpower on Dec 11, 2007 5:23:26 GMT -5
WOW! I am totally jealous.   Beautiful flowers! I have grown the single , purple Datura as an annual. I have seeds for the single white for next season. Are Brugs easy to start from seed? I can only find starts for some single, yellow around here. It was 13 USD. I did not really want to spend that much on a plant I wasn't familiar with. Especially if it's not a perennial. |
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Post by lavandulagirl on Dec 11, 2007 6:57:04 GMT -5
Sammy - those are lovely! I'm with FP... I'm green with envy!
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Dec 11, 2007 7:34:34 GMT -5
Beautiful!! Okay, here I go showing my ignorance of things floral... These are all Datura family members? Are they all poisonous?
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Post by bunkie on Dec 11, 2007 16:18:45 GMT -5
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sammyqc
grub
Urban, small raised beds, Zone 5 (Canada)
Posts: 94
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Post by sammyqc on Dec 11, 2007 18:05:30 GMT -5
Hi. Thanks for the compliments. I love these plants, they are a serious addiction!
As for poisonous, yes, just as most beautiful plants are!! I would highly recommend not eating or smoking any parts of the plants. They are members of the Solaneacea family (nightshade), which also include tomatoes and potatoes, peppers, eggplant, and petunias, so go figure. Datura and Brug are related, although the dats are generally considered an annual, brugs are tender perennial, zone 9+, so overwinter indoors in colder zones. They have been used medicinally for centuries (but don't go telling any stupid teenager that) but just as any other poisonous exotic plant, it just takes one 'idiot', and the plant gets a bad rap. Oleander is much deadlier, from what I understand.
Brugs from seed usually come up plain white (90-95% of the time). Best way to propagate is cuttings, but lots of breeding going on, especially in Europe. The pictures of my babies are from seed - A V.Peach X Frosty Pink, but they have not flowered yet so who knows what I'll get. Probably not much, but it is fun to try. It usually takes two years from seed to bloom. Cuttings are much faster, and you are guaranteed to get the plant you want that way.
Price wise, some of it is nuts. I've seen some of the 'new' ones - sit down for this-----
go for over $300. Crazy. I started with one little one that I bought at a garden center that had it marked down, 5.00, and went from there. Pretty much trading cuttings and tons of generous people, now I've got about 15 varieties, and many more plants five years later. Fall is the best time to get cuttings, that's usually when the plants get cut down for overwintering, and usually brug fans have so many cuttings to give away, or trade, some never make it past the compost heap because there just aren't enough takers. I frequent the brug forum at GW, very generous growers there.
I've traded with a guy in the US, although technically, not supposed to. But in the spring, I'll probably have lots more to give away for postage. Canadians, no problem sending in the mail.
So keep that in mind.
(And rememeber, brugs are not datura, they are related ---haha, no quicker way to get some of the "holier" brug experts on your case.)
I hope I'm not one of them. I just love them and I try to get ever one else that I meet to come over to the 'dark side'.
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Post by lavandulagirl on Dec 11, 2007 21:10:57 GMT -5
Hey! When I move to the Sacramento area, I think I'll be zone 9. What great news! I can grow the brugs! Hooray! Thanks for the info, Sammy.
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Beautiful flowers! I have grown the single , purple Datura as an annual. I have seeds for the single white for next season. Are Brugs easy to start from seed? I can only find starts for some single, yellow around here. It was 13 USD. I did not really want to spend that much on a plant I wasn't familiar with. Especially if it's not a perennial. 
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