Angel’s trumpet should be finishing bloom by now. Instead, and even while their foliage is fading with cooler weather, their bloom continues. Only the unidentified cultivar with single pink flowers currently lacks open flowers, but even it is budded for potential later bloom. (I neglected to get a picture of a flower of ‘Charles Grimaldi’ angel’s trumpet only because two pictures of angel’s trumpet is sufficient.) While angel’s trumpet is finishing, Algerian iris and ‘Peach Delight’ ginger lily are blooming for their first time here and red butterfly ginger is generating bulbils for its first time here. I was not aware that this sort of ginger generates bulbils. Otherwise, I could have allowed the other gingers do so also.

1. Hedychium greenii, red butterfly ginger is making bulbils! I did not know that it knew how to do so. I am now glad that I refrained from pruning the bloomed canes out earlier.

2. Hedychium coccineum X cornonarium ‘Peach Delight’ ginger lily started to bloom so late that I did not expect for it to actually show this much color and confirm its identity.

3. Iris unguicularis, Algerian iris is also blooming for the first time here, since its arrival from Tangly Cottage Gardening. It should bloom more for winter. Is it blue or purplish?

4. Brugmansia, angel’s trumpet of an unidentified cultivar, species or perhaps hybrid, is trying to bloom with its last big single pink flowers of the season, and it just might do so.

5. Brugmansia insignis ‘Single White’ angel’s trumpet is my favorite in regard to bloom, but not one that I recommend. It is blooming nicely though, now that its season is done.

6. Brugmansia candida ‘Double White’ angel’s trumpet also intends to bloom until it no longer can. It bloomed only sporadically since spring, but better than the ‘Single White’.

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22 thoughts on “Six on Saturday: Firsts & Lasts”

    1. Dang! That is sort of what it looks like to me; although I am not so proficient with color, which is why I ask. I am hoping that later bloom will be more blue. Well, even if it does not, it is very pretty, and is from Tangly Cottage Gardening, so I will not complain. This double white angel’s trumpet is the second most common here. Only ‘Charles Grimaldi’ is more common. How does your single white angel’s trumpet perform? Of the four here, it is the wimpiest. The original specimen from which I got cuttings grows no taller than twelve feet. I see more cultivars of angel’s trumpet in Southern California than here, and I have not seen a single white blooming specimen perform very well.

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    1. MAUVE?! I do not even know what that is, and can not pronounce it, and can only spell it by copying what you spelled. Well, at least it is not purple, and it is certainly pretty. The double white Brugmansia is sometimes described as creamy white, which I think means that it is very slightly yellowish. It looks white to me, although perhaps not as bright white as the single white. I figured that the duller whiteness is the result of the ruffled form. Would you say that it qualifies as white?

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    1. Oh gads; perhaps I should not have asked. Well, it is very pretty regardless. I really want to see what it does this winter! All other iris here bloom for summer or spring.

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  5. Gorgeous angels trumpets and ginger lilies. The lilies you sent to us have grown well but haven’t bloomed. I’ve kept them canned since it has been so dry here and the voles have been decimating so many roots in search of moisture. Your iris strikes me as periwinkle blue. But the monitor always has its own interpretation of a photos colors. So happy you are still enjoying spectacular flowers so late into the season.

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    1. For the Algerian Iris, this is early in the season. They prefer to bloom for winter. Periwinkle is naturalized here, and although it is a weed, I do like the color, even if I can not identify such color. Only three of the seven or so gingers bloomed here, perhaps because I tamper with them too much in order to grow more copies of them.

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    1. Algerian iris should bloom for winter here also. This one just got a bit too eager. There is plenty left to bloom later. I did not know what to expect from ‘Peach Delight’ ginger lily, but I am pleased to see that it is what it was supposed to be. That means that the white blooming variegated ginger that came with it is more likely to also be what it is supposed to be. (I sort of expected ‘Peach Delight’ to bloom white, and the variegated ginger lily to bloom peachy pink because I thought that Brent got their floral colors wrong.) Brent tried to talk me out of growing the single white brugmansia, so I am not disappointed with its runty growth, but for the landscapes at work, the double really is better because of it more vigorous growth, which displays the bloom better.

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  7. I’d say more purple than blue for the iris. Love the ginger lilies, and the angel’s trumpets flowers are unusual, at least here – I have only seen orange/yellow ones before. Some towns have large containers with non-hardy plants like Oleander or Angel’s Trumpets and keep them in frost—free locations over winter.

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    1. Well, I am too fond of the Algerian iris to dislike its floral color now. Besides, it is at work, where there are plenty of others to appreciate its purplish floral color. We really can get away with any color at work. Of course, in the future, I will bring some of it back to my garden, just because it is a gift from Tangly Cottage Garden, and I really do like it that much. I hope that the ginger lilies bloom more when they should next year. Perhaps they are still getting acclimated. I am pleased that this one managed to bloom soon enough, but I will be impressed if the buds that are out there now are able to bloom prior to winter. They do not do much once the weather cools. The orangish yellow brugmansia is likely ‘Charles Grimaldi’. It is the most popular because it is the most reliable. I am not so keen on the color, but the performance is exemplary. Ours came from the specimen in Brent’s garden, which came from one of his jobs.

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    1. Oh, that is not a good way to go into winter, even there. Ours grow like weeds at times, but then get shabby at times. They are greedy for fertilizer and water. We will FINALLY plant single yellow ‘Charles Grimaldi’ into a landscape after winter, as well as another double white. A single pink will go into a large urn, and the single white will go . . . away. I will continue to grow it in my own garden though.

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    1. Oh, it is not actually blooming yet. It just tossed out this single odd bloom. I suspect that the rest will bloom more or less on schedule, and because there is SO much of it, it could be quite impressive! The variegated Japanese iris has grown well enough to probably bloom for spring. I still watch for the Louisiana iris. I am so ashamed of how the gophers got it twice. Not much remains on the pond, and I canned a few in the recovery nursery. There is enough to bloom, but not the abundance that there was originally. I know it will not take long for it to take over faster than the gophers can eat it though.

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    1. That is the second most popular angel’s trumpet here. It is very reliable and very fragrant. Only ‘Charles Grimaldi’, with big single yellow flowers is more popular.

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