That "Peanut" is beautiful! BTW I've bought a few brugs from Seed Sprout and have never been disappointed. It looks like they are closed for inventory now but are accepting orders. Karyn

Hello and thank you so much for your response. Strange, but is eBay not the go-to place to purchase brugmansias anymore? I just looked for "Day Dreams" and "Double L'Amour" and nobody is selling either of the two. As I said before, I love fragrance. My "Golden Lady" is currently blooming and you can smell it from a block away. That's the kind of impact I'm looking for as well as the pink color. I have "Cotton Candy" but it only blooms at night and the pink is such a light color. I was hoping for something like Daydreams or Pink Perfektion. Double L'Amour is gorgeous but is it a newer variety? I'm not looking to spend too much and was hoping to find something that fit what I was looking for without breaking the bank. I guess I will have to look for either Daydreams, Double L'Amour, or Pink Perfektion. Can anyone recommend somewhere affordable and reliable? I'm so shocked that eBay has no one selling right now? Thank you so much for all your help. If anyone has any additional recommendations, please share. I have to bring my plants in for the winter and such is the reason why I can only choose one more variety to add to my collection.

The foundation is primarily a ruddy smectite clay. While digging, there seems to be a large quantity of mica and a lesser quantity of rather small (quail-egg sized) pieces of quartz although brick sized pieces of quartz pop up from time to time. I originally tried using sand and a quantity of gypsum as an amendment with composted leaf mould, sphagnum peat, sawdust and manure as organics. Notwithstanding that I think it's the muckiest substance I've ever seen, the clay does seem to percolate a bit and Japanese irises nearby were severely injured. And a small mystery--moss has no difficulty growing on the surface even though I'd thought that iron sulphate (which I'd assumed was acidic) is used to kill moss. Performance is a mixed bag w/regard to plants situated in the native "soil". Certain peony varieties, notably the corals :), have in fact done better than some lactifloras I brought in from China. I routinely shuttle failing peonies in the autumn up to my parents' property which has actual soil. The tree peonies are a total crapshoot--certain Chinese varieties have entirely collapsed whereas other ones have produced gigantic blooms. The Japanese varieties do modestly well but increase of all the TPs has been consistently slow. Regarding other plants, I stopped vegetable gardening after the first year--not worth the effort; even quinoa failed to produce anything substantial. Lilacs have had a harder time acclimatizing to the clay than the peonies--they don't die, but they grow sparingly and many of them decrease--I did do a lot of amendment in particular for them and I got the soil in their holes up to 6.5 pH; of course, the holes are surrounded by a sea of acidic clay. I learned from a neighbour that the area in which I put the lilacs had been used to grow tobacco which is hard on the soil. With plenty of amendments, daylilies have done very well, although there is substantial variance in performance around the property. In digging up failing daylilies to ascertain what's going on below the surface, I found oftentimes that the daylily roots had only a tenuous hold on the clay and that most of their roots were situated in the mulch I'd put down. Consequently, I replace up to 70/80% of the clay in areas with daylilies. Such a large removal isn't feasible for the peonies, in large part because the quantity of mica is great enough to prevent digging much deeper than a foot with a spade and oftentimes the mica is encountered a mere few inches below the surface. Camellias have been removed entirely from the lot, since a season or two in situ and the poor things are nearly on their death beds. Similarly, rhododendrons fail, but kurume azaleas and flowering quince do well. Japanese maples do not thrive, but dogwood, Prunus mume, pin oaks and silver maple grow alright. That's about all I can summarize about the soil and performance in it. Oh--one anecdote: the water is acidic enough that distinct copper sulphate routinely accumulates on my shower walls, though there is very little other mineral deposit to be found (I assume the copper is being leached from my pipes).

I'm in a cooler zone but pink Double Ko's grow to about 3.5-4ft tall and 3ft wide here... So maybe will grow larger in TX??? Hopefully someone from TX chimes in Beth... Our neighbors D. Pink Ko's are planted about 1.5ft - 2 ft apart here. 4ft high fence .....I planted our Double Red Ko's 40" apart and I have space between them but that's what I wanted...