When repotting a Brugmansia, it is necessary to trim off some of the roots. Here are some basic instructions and some accompanying step by step instructions to show you what to do and how to go about doing it.

The first thing you will want to do is remove the plant from the pot. For the purposes of this article, we will refer to the pot as a 7 gallon pot. Do a thorough inspection of the plant, looking under the leaves and all along the trunk. Snails like to crawl up the trunk of the plant and hide under the leaves. Check for aphids, too.

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Every spring, the central part of the country (Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Iowa and Texas) known as Tornado Alley braces itself for the onslaught of bad weather. Between March and May, this part of the country faces the danger of tornadoes.

Texas typically receives the most tornadoes. I'm not exactly sure why that is, but I suspect a large part of that reason is that it's common for the warm and moist air from the Gulf of Mexico to collide with cooler dry air from the Rocky Mountains or further north.

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I often hear apartment dwellers talk about wanting to have a garden but they say they feel frustrated or unhappy because they feel as though this is something beyond the reach of the average apartment dweller. As someone who has been living in apartments in various places for over 30 years, I can tell you that this isn't entirely true. Granted, it depends a lot on where you live and whether your apartment consists solely of a building or if you have several buildings.

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When my husband and I bought our home over ten years ago, we acquired a house in dire need of updating and an overgrown yard begging for some care and tending.  Concealed in the overgrowth, we found one single hydrangea bush.  I had never grown hydrangeas, and I didn't have a clue what to do with it.  It bloomed only sparsely and was in a poor location encroaching on a walkway.  I pruned away, tried fertilizing it, and finally did the inexcusable by moving it to a new location that proved to be its last resting place.  After that disaster, I questioned my talent for growing these lovely bushes and didn't try growing them again for a long time.  A few years after sending my poor bush to the afterlife, I visited the home of a dear friend who took me to her back yard to show me her lusc

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So, you want toknow how to turn one BRUG cutting into many! 

These are the methods I have found that work best for me in my zone 9 garden.

First, decide which one of the branches of the Brug looks good for rooting. It should be one from the plant's mature growth rather than new growth. Rooted cuttings from mature growth will flower sooner.

1* Select the cutting, and take off all the leaves, cutting below one of the leaf nodes (where the leaf comes out of the stem), and above one or two nodes above it. The cutting should be at least 4 " long.

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