Care of Purple Datura
Purple datura is an excellent plant choice for indoor or outdoor gardening. Also known as angel's trumpet and jimson weed, among others, datura is a fragrant, night-blooming plant that can grow to a height of 4 to 5 feet. Purple datura also blooms in white. It is very poisonous, so keeping it away from children and pets is a must. Gardeners praise datura for its night-blooming beauty and fragrance. Follow a few steps and grow a purple datura in your own home or garden.
Purple Datura as a Garden Plant
Plant the purple datura in a sunny spot where it will receive full to partial sun throughout the day.
- Purple datura is an excellent plant choice for indoor or outdoor gardening.
- Plant the purple datura in a sunny spot where it will receive full to partial sun throughout the day.
Keep the soil around the base of the tree always moist to the touch. Add 2 to 3 inches of mulch to help keep the soil moist and aid in keeping away weeds.
Dig up the datura before the first frost of winter and move it indoors.
Purple Datura as a House Plant
Place the datura plant where it will receive full sun for most of the day to promote optimal growth.
Water the purple datura plant from spring through winter, keeping the soil moist to the touch but never soaked. Water the datura in the winter only when the soil becomes excessively dry. Exposure to excess water can increase the risk of fungal disease.
- Keep the soil around the base of the tree always moist to the touch.
- Water the purple datura plant from spring through winter, keeping the soil moist to the touch but never soaked.
Re-pot the purple datura plant in the spring if it has outgrown the pot's size, as datura can grow rapidly and yearly pot changing may be necessary to allow the roots room to spread out to provide the best growth.
Pinch away any seed pods from the datura to encourage more blooming throughout the rest of the year.
Tip
Purple datura doesn't require fertilizer and can be grown in just about any type of soil. When planted outdoors, datura can be fragile to extreme heat from the sunlight. Planting in partial sunlight is better for the plant. Datura can survive outdoors if the winters are not too severe, but there is a high risk of plant death if the temperature stays well below freezing.
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Tips
- Purple datura doesn't require fertilizer and can be grown in just about any type of soil.
- When planted outdoors, datura can be fragile to extreme heat from the sunlight. Planting in partial sunlight is better for the plant.
- Datura can survive outdoors if the winters are not too severe, but there is a high risk of plant death if the temperature stays well below freezing.
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