hello first.....talithaluna.....around the time of first fall frost...ease way up on watering and take all green off the brugmansia's... .place them in a not so warm place in the dark or dimly lit area in the basement and give a cup of water once a month or so.... in spring,put them in front of any window with light and they will come back fine...no problem..then when all danger of frost has passed...out they go... second....ianna....i think you have that backwards my friend.....datura will come back from seed in the right zone....or just save the seed and sow in spring... brugs are from south america and can not handle the cold...seed or plant.. cheers and happy gardening all.. diggy

I have about 14 Brugs growing in Dutchess County. They have to be brought in for the winter. I have just brought them in and put them in the spare room for the winter and water occasionally. The only problem that I have is that they do get spider mites and I've never been successful at controlling them. Last year, I brought them out to a sunny window in late February and started watering more. Yes, they took right off again, but the mites hit and they lost all their leaves. This year, I will wait till April to bring them out and get them going, in hopes to get them going and outside as early as possible. You might want to go to the Brugmansia forum for more advice. This year, I also planted them in 5 gallon buckets and then drilled holes in the bucket and buried the whole bucket so that I can pull them out for winter storage. I will simply trim back the roots and slide the bucket into another for storage. If you want, you can take cutting about 4 inches in length and start new plants. I simply lay them sideways on some potting soil and push them in the dirt leaving half of it exposed and keep it slightly on the moist side. New plants are easy to start and I learned that if you have cuttings above the "Y" you will get short plants, and if you have cuttings below the "Y" you will get taller plants. I've got white and peach, possibly we can trade some cuttings!!! Good luck, W Here is a link that might be useful: See Our Brugs

Shelley, i have a white, a yellow and a pink and would be happy to send you cuttings from each of them. I also have a lot of seeds from this summer that I will throw in for you. E-mail me your address and I'll be happy to send them to you. We lost our little beach cottage that had been in our family since 1948 in the storm surge from Ike. It was a block from the ocean in Gilchrist. It wasn't much to look at, but we spent many happy summer vacations there when we were growing up. In it were two full-sized Jenny Lind Beds, a "monitor-top" refrigerator, original wavy glass from the old windows, and a big old table my grandfather built. My DH and I spent our Thanksgiving holiday two years ago remodeling the kitchen and updating all the plumbing. My brothers had just built on a new deck. It will make me very happy to help you to put your garden back together again. Cheryl

Have a few strong section cuttings to trade of Brugmansia 'Little Angel' to trade. One or two Y'd. Its beautiful white flowers, nocturnal night fragrance, and leaves are full sized and the plants are traditionally shaped. Just the distance between leaf nodes is about half that of many Brugs and so the plants are compact. And the flowers lean out a bit so they display well and don't tangle in the leaves. 'Little Angel' is a Strong vigorous grower with fat stems. It blooms at a short size, 1.5+', sometimes even before it Y's. For us, every leaf node blooms. So after midsummer it is never out of bloom, even in the cool PNW summers! One 4.5' plant stored at 40-45 F in our unheated garage, not watered and leafless now, is still pumping out some flowers, downsized with the stress. Its compact size makes it more easily stored inside compared to many others. The fat stems it makes store well, reroot easily, and work great for winter backup cuttings. I'm looking to trade for 'Snowbank', 'Cherub', and orange or dark rose colored varieties (especially with double flowers).