The angel's trumpet adorns many gardens with its magnificent colors.
However, the beautiful nightshade plant is relatively poisonous.
You can find out more about the plant here.
There are garden plants that look beautiful at first glance.
The angel's trumpet is one of them and looks just as beautiful when planted in the garden as it is in a bucket.
But many beautiful garden plants are poisonous and the angel's trumpet is one of those representatives that you shouldn't eat.
Nevertheless, the plant has some advantages.
Angel's trumpet in portrait: beautiful, but highly poisonous nightshade plant
Angel's Trumpets (Brugmansia) score with many pretty flowers in an extraordinary shape and size. They mostly bloom yellow, but they are also available in white, pink, red or orange. The plant grows overhanging so that the beautiful flowers hang with the opening down. The flowers can reach at least the size of a hand. The plants usually bloom from July to October and have a wonderfully sweet scent.
And that is precisely what is extremely tricky.
Because the sweet scent attracts children who want to take hold of the flowers or even try them.
Angel's trumpets belong to the nightshade family and are
poisonous in all parts of the plant
.
They contain a high proportion of alkaloids.
The angel's trumpet originally comes from South America and was or is partly used there as an intoxicant.
This is also extremely dangerous, because an incorrect dosage can quickly be fatal.
Included in the angel's trumpet are, for example:
Scopolamine
L-hyoscyamine
Atropine (best known for Atropa belladonna, the black deadly nightshade)
Ester
The tricky thing about it: even the scent can have a
narcotic
effect.
So never smell an angel's trumpet intensely and keep children and animals away from it.
The angel's trumpet is completely unsuitable as a house or winter garden plant.
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The roots and seeds of the plant contain a particularly large number of toxins and are
toxic or even fatal from a dose of 0.3 grams
, but overall the angel's trumpet should never be tried or even eaten. It becomes fatal for adults from around 453 milligrams (stems, flowers, leaves), for children from 10 milligrams. If the plant is eaten, a variety of symptoms can occur, including skin irritation, vomiting and nausea, dilated and light-rigid pupils, cramps, circulatory problems up to hallucinations and respiratory failure.
It becomes particularly dangerous for children and animals, where even smaller amounts are sufficient for poisoning.
Sometimes just touching the plant can lead to symptoms.
First aid is then important, with children it is especially important to recognize what caused the poisoning *.
You don't have to panic right away, but at best plant the angel's trumpet in a safe place and wear gloves when working.
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Angel's trumpet in portrait: this is how you plant it
As already explained, an angel's trumpet should not be placed in closed rooms if possible.
So the only option is
planting in the garden
.
This can be done either in a planter like a bucket or directly in the ground.
However, angel's trumpets are sensitive to frost.
Buckets would therefore be ideal, because the plant should be overwintered at at least twelve degrees Celsius.
Make sure there is adequate ventilation.
As an alternative to wintering in a light place, it can also be dark.
Like other plants, however, it then sheds its leaves.
Otherwise, the angel's trumpet needs the following:
From April or May (ice saints) she can go outside again, depending on the weather.
Location
: Sunny and sheltered from the wind, no blazing midday sun.
A location in a bucket in front of a sunny house wall would be ideal.
Substrate
: potting
soil
, as nutrient-rich as possible, mixed with a little expanded clay or clay granules.
Repotting
: regularly, at best every other year in spring.
Summer location
: It is possible to place angel's trumpets in the bed over the summer and take them out again in autumn.
At best, use a plant basket for this.
Water requirement
: It is very large.
In summer you should water enough in the morning and evening, in winter the root ball should never dry out completely.
Fertilizer
: The angel's trumpet has a high need for nutrients.
It is fertilized in spring and then weekly until autumn (depending on the type of fertilizer).
The angel's trumpet is definitely
a
highlight in the garden
and those who handle the plant responsibly can marvel at a veritable sea of flowers in summer.
In addition to the angel's trumpet, there are other poisonous plants in the garden.
If you want to do without these, you can also choose plants that are safe for pets or children.
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