What beautiful color!!! Thank You for the posting clickable pic...LOL

That Crown of Thorns is huge and very pretty!!!
Kylie

jyg, congrats! You are patient, and finally it paid off. Thanks for sharing your photos.

8 years.. my goodness, I know you were a happy girl. She is just beautiful!! I know you are proud !! Edna

Congrats. 8 years? You have the patience of a saint! lol Did yours open that peach color? My V. peach opens almost white and takes quite a while to color up but it's so pretty when it does and the scent is nice. Your COT is beautiful as well.
Karyn

HOW PRETTY !! I cant imagine waiting that long..But looks like it sure was worth it ! Thanks so much for sharing..I am so anxious to have my first blooms !

Did you started from seed, that why it take so long? You are very patience lady :)

I have no patience, I'm just stubborn, and won't give up as long as a plant is alive and breathing. No, I didn't grow it from a seed. I bought it in a 3 gallon pot, and it just went downhill from there. Hurricane Charley ripped it to shreds, and I just took cuttings, and it's been a challenge ever since then, but it's finally paid off, and I've learned that this one needs to be grown in a pot.

It actually opened yesterday, sort of white, but turned overnight. I think it must be a night bloomer too, because it was open all night long. I love that the blooms are so large!

Thanks for the compliments on the COT. I'll be cutting it back soon, because it's rooted itself into the ground out of its pot, and it grows over onto the porch. I usually have to cut it back twice a year. I bought that plant in a 1 gallon pot, just two little stems.

Congrats on your beautiful bloom. Can imagine how excited you are after waiting for 8 years for it to bloom. Hopefully, there will be more to follow......in far less than 8 years. Can't imagine either that you'll be happy with just one brugmansia now.

I have more than one brug. I actually now have the versi peach, Ecuador Pink, Charles Grimaldi, Creamsickle (I can tell she's gonna be a problem...already covered with spider mites), Isabella, and a Sauveolens Pink x U. seedling. I used to have about 5 more varieties, but during all my various illnesses and injuries, they died, or I gave them away before they died. All the ones I have now are new starts of old plants that almost died. The Creamsickle and Isabella I bought last year, and the Isabella has bloomed, but none of the others yet this year.

The only one I miss is the shredded white. I finally got one in a trade, and had it growing, but it died from root rot during a real rainy spell. I would get another one, but right now, I just have too many plants.

Those are beautiful. It was worth the wait but you have more patience than me too, lol. I thought 3 years waiting for my night blooming cereus was bad but at least it had wierd foliage to keep me interested, lol. I love the crown of thorns but those big stickers skeeeer me, lol. Roses are bad enough.