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RE-flower 22 (Angel’s trumpet) Several years ago, I acquired a trumpet flower, also called the Angel’s trumpet. It was so old that it had become a tree. The previous owner was tired of moving it in and out, as it cannot withstand frost. It usually grows in more southern climates – I’ve seen it in Greece, while Wikipedia says it originates from South America. Every autumn, I pollard the mother plant for the year’s new shoots and put them into a bucket of water, and when spring comes, the shoots have grown long white roots and they can then be planted. That way I have grown generations of trumpet flowers. If the plant is given plenty of water, it responds with large yellow flowers that replace each other throughout the summer and well into autumn. The flower smells lovely. The leaves are green and can grow very large. But every
now and then it happens that a leaf changes colour… from green to yellow. A
beautiful yellow. When the yellow leaf lets go and falls off… I pick it up. |