Sommer Gardens / Friday, January 7, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia Organized chaos with my Angel Trumpets In preparation for our December freeze I knocked down over 1,000 gallon-sized pots of my brugmansia seedlings and piled them up in a long row. This made them much easier to cover and protect. The majority of these seedlings were ones from 2009 that came back from their roots after being damaged in last year's freeze. They were scattered around in various locations and it would have been nearly impossible to cover all of them. The majority of the seedlings are now blooming size and range from 3-6 feet tall. I spent New Year's Day weekend trying to make some sense of this mess. The plants were on their sides and stacked on top of each other, not a healthy situation I knew the plants would be too tall to stand up on their own, so I built a 6 foot wide corral to help hold them up.I then relocated the plants to this corral, placing them pot to pot. Because many of these seedlings had rooted into the ground earlier, I had to spend allot of time trimming off the tap roots protruding from the drain holes. The stress from yanking them out of the ground caused them to drop many of their mature leaves so that made the stacking much easier. About every six feet I stretched a guide rope across the corral to help keep the plants from leaning over.I spent two full days working on this project and I still have a couple hundred more to clean-up and move. That will be this Saturday's project. I have a couple of other large blocks of gallon-sized seedlings in my growing area, but fortunately they are already grouped together so they did not have to be yanked and relocated in advance of the freeze.It is exciting to see all the new growth flushing out. A bunch have tiny flower buds forming too. I expect most of these seedlings to bloom by spring so I should have plenty of beautiful new blooms to share with you in a month or so. It is raining birds in Florida too! This Exotic Hibiscus will charm you.... Print Rate this article: No rating 6520 Tags:Angel TrumpetBrugmansiabrugs