Summer has been slow to arrive. Now, some flowers that have been waiting for a bit of warmth to bloom are ready to make up for lost time.
These angel’s trumpets are fortunately silent. Even prior to full bloom, so much bloom looks silly with such minimal foliage.This picture is a few days old; so they are in full bloom by now. More foliage will develop as the summer progresses.
This particular cultivar is the common ‘Charles Grimaldi’, with splendidly fragrant single yellow flowers. Two other cultivars are blooming nearby. One is somewhat less vigorous, with single white but perhaps less fragrant flowers. The other is more compact than ‘Charles Grimaldi’, with double white and comparably fragrant flowers.
All were grown from cuttings, and have potential to grow like weeds. Six more of the cultivar with double white flowers were added to another landscape nearby. Several of both cultivars with white flowers are developing in the nursery, and will need homes either in the landscapes or neighbors’ gardens by next year. Another cultivar in the nursery may bloom with mildly fragrant single pastel orange flowers in the next few days, but we will not know until it actually does so. We have not seen it bloom yet. It could actually be another copy of ‘Charles Grimaldi’.
Daylilies are beginning to bloom now also. Like angel’s trumpet, they seem to have been waiting a bit longer than they wanted to, so are ready to bloom simultaneously in atypical profusion. I hope that such profusion does not compromise subsequent bloom, since they continue to bloom throughout summer and until frost. Also like angel’s trumpet, daylilies are so easy to grow and propagate that there has been no incentive to acquire more cultivars than the three or so that are already here.
Tony Tomeo 
We have a number of brugmansias here in eastern Mass. They live in pots. we bring them inside in the winter, and often cut them back to a stump, just above the previous year’s cut…the “trunks” have gotten wonderfully gnarly from years of this treatment. Every five or ten years, depending on how root-bound they’ve gotten, we take the plants from their pots, blast off the old dirt with a hose, give the roots a hard pruning, and give them new dirt. The “mother” plant is over 40 years old. The scent in the evening when they bloom makes all the labor worthwhile.
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They can grow as small trees here, but get sloppy if not pollarded like yours at the end of winter. Alternatively, for those of us who dislike the gnarly grunks, they can get coppiced.They get frosted every few years, but only the outer growth gets damaged. I like to plug cuttings from winter pruning scraps to grow new specimens to replace old specimens before their root bases get too bulky, but such cuttings are vulnerable to frost if they do not grow much through summer.
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Your daylilies bloom throughout summer until frost? So interesting — ours (Hemerocallis) send up the flower stalks, each with half dozen or so buds, then come the end of August are spent, with the stalks turning brown and dying (easy to pull out) the the leaves flopping to the ground. Mainly. Unless there’s a lot of rain.
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Your observation is likely more accurate. Ours only bloom sporadically after late summer, and only with regular irrigation. The flowers that continue to bloom until frost are on short stems. We could extend the bloom by adding other cultivars, but because two of the few that are already here multiply so efficiently, we do not want any more.
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