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

tropicbreeze wrote:
Checked it out on the checklist, we have 4 Daturas in the Northern Territory, all introduced, and mainly in the arid areas. Apparently D. leichhardtii is native to Australia but not the NT. It's a prohibited import, Class C declared weed.

A couple of years back I bought (from them) what they've labelled Datura. The woman warned me it probably wouldn't do too well but that possibly it would seed and I might keep it going like that. Well, in no time it curled up its roots and died.

So what killed it? My usual apathetic approach to a lot of plants? The climate? My long-complained-about bore water? I like the look of the plant, but is it worth trying again?