Angel Trumpet Time
We are enjoying a lush flowering of angel trumpets this fall, with their sweetly fragrant, nocturnal flowers. This is the cultivar Brugmansia x candida ‘Double White’, looking quite lovely this week.
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Brugman’s Angel Trumpets
One of the more spectacular genera of fall-flowering plants is the tobacco relative, Brugmansia, in the nightshade family, Solanaceae. The genus, Brugmansia, was named in 1805 to honor Sebald Brugmans (1763–1819), a natural history professor at Leiden University, Netherlands. These fragrant flowers are designed to attract pollinators that include large, nocturnal hawkmoths. Below is our clump of
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A Walk Through the Garden!
October is a transitional month in the garden, as the plants of summer begin to fade and the stars of the autumn garden begin to shine. Join us Saturday October 8 from 10am – noon for a two-hour class…an interactive outdoor walk through our extensive botanical gardens, discussing the plants in the garden, and how and
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