Variegated brugmansia

I can't get over how many blooms ! I've never been able to get that many blooms at once. Do you think it has a lot to do with planting it in the ground each spring? I keep mine potted. I may give this a try though if it'll mean more blooms. And how do you fertalize?

beautiful and yes an amazing amount flowers!

How Elegant this looks How on earth does it stay up?it must weigh a ton?

Thanks ! They do better in the ground than in a pot in the hot summer months, because they love water..! But the most important thing to remember is they are very heavy feeders. Buy some water soluble miracle gro that contains a mix of 15-30-15. It's called bloom booster,(if you use 10-10-10 or 15-15-15 they will do more growing and less blooming unless you happen to have some excellent soil).. I feed them a 3 gal bucket of water mixed at half recommended strength for outdoor plants (1 1/2 spoons) every other day. I prune all the lower limbs off my brugs to make it look more like a tree instead of letting it take its normal shrub shape, and I have still had as many as 103 blooms open on them at one time. Good luck ! The brugs in this photo is still pretty young, early in the season, by autumn the trunk on this one was almost the size of my wrist, and 10 feet tall.

What a beautiful bush!!!!!!!!!!

it' amazin! where is the plant in the winter?

Thanks ! Sandra, I leave them in the ground and mulch around them heavily. If we have a mild winter, they come back from the root. If it's a special one, I'll take cuttings in the fall and save them overwinter in a glass of water on my windowsill. This one is fairly common around here, if it doesn't come back, I can buy another one that's about 3 feet tall, at a local nursery for about 12 dollars.

Now there is something to be really envious of - not only full of blooms but also a great frame/shape to support those 'bells' whose into campanology?? Pity we can't have out of doors in Cambridgeshire

If you squint your eyes...they look like the dancers at a cotillion...

That is something to aim for.
After the last couple of summers here though I don't think that I've any hope!

Hopefully the fertilizer will help jump start them for you Meanie. Just a suggestion, you might want to try only growing the most vigorous and best blooming varieties too , being you don't have our extremely hot and humid summers they like.