Tropical Zone Gardening: Brugmansia in the Tropics, 1 by rjuddharrison

rjuddharrison wrote:
I started out gardening with brugs because they are so spectacular looking when in bloom, but here hot and humid, they grow too fast, attract too many diseases and insects during the the summer (here April thru November) that I've removed 90 percent of the brugs from my garden. I still have 5 or 6 trees, and now they are going to seed and growing from them too. I know this sounds like heaven to those in the north who coddle the 3 foot tree during the winter, but such is the bane of brugs.
There is a method that I've though of trying, but haven't yet and that is pruning them extremely hard if not to the ground in april, which should give them enough time to regrow during the summer in time for oct/nov when it starts cooling down here and they begin blooming again. I can't leave any of the pruned branches on the ground or they start growing right where they dropped.
I sure like the orange tint your brugs have!

Rj