The previous photos of my Pink Brugmansia were taken on August 22, 2008, which you can see on my last posting. The photos shown here were taken 7 days later on August 29th. 

Pink Brugmansia blooms one week old

What a sad denouement if I had not been so happy to see and smell the arrival of the Yellow Brugmansia. They take complementary sentinel positions opposite the French doors on my deck.

Brugmansia Sentinels

Although Brugmansia’s bloom with many blossoms at one time you can get lulled into thinking that you’ll always have flowers to enjoy. My experience here in my non-tropical Long Island NY weather zone is that these plants flower in waves. Each plant will put out many blooms at once and then rest for a few weeks before pouring out another batch.

Single Brugmansia Bloom

In order to keep the rhythm going, I like to have a few different cultivars so that at any one time I’m either on my way with incoming buds or enjoying the actual huge flowers themselves. I’ve learned to enjoy the incoming bud stage since the one week of bloom time is too fleeting.

Actually, now that I think about it so were my 40’s and for that matter my 50’s as well.