FREE: Pink Angels Trumpet Plant

Butting in for a minute,,,,,,,

If this is Brugmansia (NOT Datura), they are a tropical. Cuttings can be taken anytime and rooted in your favorite medium or in water.

And yes, they can take a mild frost but they will freeze and die if exposed too long.

When you bring them in for fall this is what I have done successfully for many years. I live in Michigan and we have -20F possible temps.

For a plant grown either in the open ground or in a pot, I dig it up by the roots, shake off all excess soil, use hose to wash soil off roots. At this point I will trim off all leaves (they will drop anyway) and take cuttings about 12in long. Mostly to trim the plant to get it in my basement.

I then place plant AND cuttings in a 5 gallon bucket, cover roots with water and store in my basement until spring. If water evaporates I add a little more through out the winter. The cuttings will be rooted by spring and the original plant will be sustained thru the winter.

When spring comes back out it goes to plant in pots or in open ground and in fall, repeat the process. AND I always have new rooted cuttings plants to share!

These plants generally don't make good house plants in climates where a furnace is used for winter heat. They may get white fly.

Hope this helps those who want to keep them over the winter.

Thank you gardengrower for the info, this is a brug, and your right, I always have cuttings, so many I have to throw some away.

Would you put up some of the cuttings, please ? And datura can also be overwintered in a garage or greenhouse where it won't freeze, I have overwintered 2 for the last 3 years, they die off above ground, but come back from the root. Just keep above 40degrees F, and water enough to keep them from drying out. My brugs share greenhouse space with the daturas. :)

In our can actually our neck of the woods, the datura is perennial. I see them growing everywhere in open ground.

Nostodm is correct you can take cuts now and auction them. They will survivie shipping just fine.

Will you be offering more of these plants? And if I'm lucky enough to win, do I plant it now or wait till spring? Thank you, F/W

Thank you both