What should I plant under my Brugmansia?

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Author Message   Ilovemygarden  My Garden Posted on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 - 07:37 am EST :    I have a variegated angel's trumpet looking lonely in a plain terra cotta container. I can't think of what to plant under it? Everything I stick under it looks too "busy." Any ideas? I have a picture of the angel's trumpet on my blog at this link, if you want to see it: http://ilovemywisconsingarden.blogspot.com/2008/04/color-my-world-indoors.h tml Thanks! Ilovemygarden - Wisconsin, Zone "5a/4b"   Karma  Supporting Member My Garden Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 - 04:02 pm EST :    Jamie is that B. Snowbank or B. Jamie, I can't tell from the small shot. There are several plants that you can plant at the base but remember if you feed them a lot these other plants need to something that will take the added feeding. Karma - PNW, Zone "Z-Denial "   Ilovemygarden  My Garden Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 - 04:41 pm EST :    This is my first brugmansia. I take it from your suggestion they require a lot of feeding. What's the best thing I can feed it? Could it really be called B. Jamie? That would be odd! Thanks again, Jamie Ilovemygarden - Wisconsin, Zone "5a/4b"   Csrliz344  My Weather My Time Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 - 05:24 pm EST :    You can use regular Miracle Grow on them, at least twice a week. Water pretty much every day, they're water hogs. In the fall,after blooming but before first frost, you want to cut them back and put them in cool storage,(basement seems to work best) water only about 1/2 cup every 3-4 weeks. Csrliz344 - Ohio, Zone "5"   Karma  Supporting Member My Garden Posted on Friday, April 18, 2008 - 05:48 pm EST :    I don't recommend MG as Csrliz344 suggested due to it adds to much salt to the plant and if you have these on a cement driveway, well it eats the cement. We recommend Peters 20-20-20 or several other good fertilizers. Click on my garden under our post and it will take you to our site. Beside Peters we rotate what we feed from lime to compost and much more. These can be over be over fertilized so becareful. Karma - PNW, Zone "Z-Denial "   Csrliz344  My Weather My Time Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 05:18 am EST :    I use MG with no problem-as you can see. A couple of times a week doesn't seem to hurt it. Csrliz344 - Ohio, Zone "5"   Ilovemygarden  My Garden Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 06:55 am EST :    Wow, beautiful. Thank you both very much. I'm excited to have this plant finally. This winter I overwintered everything tender(passion flower, lemon verbena, plumbago, lantana, plumeria, that sort of thing) in sunny windows, instead of the basement. Can brugmansia handle being a less-than-flourishing houseplant, or is the basement really a better choice? So far I've kept it well watered, and I'll start feeding it more today. I'm an every-two-week-if-I-remember type of fertilizer, so I'll step it up for this guy. LOL. Thanks again. I still don't know what to underplant it with. It will be in full-sun, so I might just stick some ivy under it? Argh. Jamie Ilovemygarden - Wisconsin, Zone "5a/4b"   Karma  Supporting Member My Garden Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 07:31 am EST :    Csrliz344, in our early days of using MG we saw many items that made is afraid of using that stuff. One being that we used to keep them on the driveway and you should see how that stuff eat the top cement. So if it will do that what's it doing to your plants? I will tell you too many that we used it on are no longer growing and have had to be replaced. There are other products out there that don't add the salt and can give you this kind of results. Jamie, beings that this appears to be one of the two mentioned and we don't have a name I really wouldn't grow anything with it as these two are what I would classify in the picky group. Karma - PNW, Zone "Z-Denial "

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