Brugmansia in our back yard. This is the treeish version of Jimson weed, AKA Datura*, AKA one of the varieties of loco weed. This version smells sweet, especially in the evening. I guess it is crepuscular, which is one of my favorite words, and I work it in whenever I can.We have several colors. I think they call them peach, apricot, and double-white. This is the one they call apricot and that I would call yellow. It is beside the patio out back with the chiminea, where we spend luxurious evenings warm on one side, cool on the other, and infused with Brugmansia smell.
*In case grammar geeks wonder why I capitalized Datura, when it is not a proper name, it is because Datura is a genus, and the convention in biology is to capitalize the genus but not the species. I violate a lot of rules in grammar and punctuation, but not usually accidentally. Which reminds me of the Oscar Wilde line, a gentleman is someone who never insults anyone accidentally.
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