Moonflower Datura, Lisa's Landscape and Design's "Plant Pick of the Day" 

Datura the moonflower is my favorite witches' seed Iol I first saw this flower back in 2001.... I had just moved from Long Beach CA to Moreno Valley and I remember still being in love with the ocean and breezy cold full moons nights you get there; so to me, Moreno Valley was like a desert waste land.... one night during a full moon (as I always try to do) I was taking a walk through one of the many empty fields in this wonderful city; I'd have to admit the nights were beautiful for me because of the stars, when I see this flower glowing in the beaming moonlight lol it was so spellbindingly beautiful just siting there lonely in the quite moon-fall that I jokingly named it moonflower.... I only found out a few days ago that Datura my sweet little nightshade … is really known as moonflower lol I will always keep this powerful friend near me. we are one?

This is a classic beauty in any garden. The key is being a smart gardener. Planting them in the backyaard, or out of children and pet reach. Our house is deep set away from the street so we've grown some mixed in our flower beds for years. It's great for adding plesant perfume in the air when there are fires or other stinky smells in the aloft. It's always good to trim them with care while wearing gloves. Otherwise when left alone it's of interest to Anoles, bees, certain birds, and certain moths. Provides a lot of beauty for very little care in return.

I've had this plant for about 15 years now. Love all the seeds you get every year!!

Have to say I have grown this plant next to the front entrance of the house. You are so right about the fragrance.....it was lovely to smell when the large white blooms started opening up at disk and the hummingbird moths would come flitting arount those beautiful blooms. Ok, now I want to order some seeds for next year for my garden. Good video.

I’m SO happy I found your channel!!

funny how gardening brings people together....thank you for sharing your story I do grow these!

I just found your channel and I feel so sad that u no longer upload any videos. Love them and so hooked because I have never seen half the plants u talk about!

Thank you for a marvelous video. I remember having this kind of moonflowers in my life since I was a tot in the late 1950's in southern Illinois. My mother grew up on a farm in south Alabama and had two green thumbs that she used all the time. We moved to the Space coast of Florida in 1961 and always had moonflowers there then we moved to Denver and we still love them best. they've all descended from the seeds from Illinois. I'm glad your neighbor introduced you to them. I've always been addicted to their fragrance since I can remember.

Thank you for sharing

Datura is a gorgeous looking plant. This specific specimen I think is Daturs Innoxia, which is probably my favourite of the Datura genus (not including the brugmansias)

Love this plant

I love the story about your neighbor!

I’m super excited! I am planting this year!

I agree with you concerning this plant it’s a beautiful plant! It smells so good. Thant you for sharing 🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽

It has great medicinal properties.

this plants when you eat it make u like creazy

Love this plant!

I agree - these are absolutely stunning and the smell is so incredible. I have people come over when it blooms because pictures do not do it justice. I have a question, Lisa, What do you do with the seed pods? Do you wait for the seed pod to turn brown or do you harvest it and let it dry out.... Will the plant reseed without using the seed pod? This is the first time I've had a seed pod produce and I'm so excited! thanks

Wow I've always suspected our moonflower bush was datura lol now I know.

The story with neighbours was really emoționant for me! Be sure i subscribed. I love this plant. I am "addicted" to it.s.smell

Amazing!

Looks beautiful!! This one is Datura Innoxia. It is one of several quickly growing Datura species including D. ferox, D. metel and D. stramonium, that achieve high densities and are difficult to control.

The flower is beautiful. I grew some in a pot over the previous year and have some seeds ready 4 next year

Oo I just had one bloom in my palm tree pot ..wanted to pull it out of the pot but want to see what it was n did ..so happy I didnt!

Informative video, thank you. I noticed that you mentioned the Sphinx moth is also known as the hummingbird moth, which is the tomato hornworm. The tomato hornworm is actually a Manduca quinquemaculata and the hummingbird moth (also called horn worm) is a Macroglossum stellatarum, two different species. Another note: your video loops at 3:34. All pointers aside, you've inspired me to look for the white moon flower. I have the purple datura seedlings that I sprouted (took over a month to germinate) but they are still small and I'm looking forward to some flowers to perfume my own yard!

I will have to try this plant! Thank you for sharing!

Sounds like a awesome plant to have pouseness it energies must be quite protective

It's beautiful

You crack me up! "I'm sorry, I'm zeroing in on this hummingbird because it's very exiting"!! I'm in Austin, do you know of anyone willing to share seeds? I have to plant some of these.

I have seeds. I wanted a trellis bit I see you have it without one. I love it!

It's a beautiful plant, I have one growing in my backyard that I named Missy Twisty Fingers. I am also a person who deeply loves psychedelics ... but there is not enough money in the world to get me to ingest any part of this plant. I believe the ordeal gained from eating this plant (if you even survive) is the closest thing to literal Hell that a living person could possibly experience.

Que lindas yo quiero de esas

Never had this happen before but my datura flower didn't make a seed pod. It just withered. What happened?

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Lisa, I don’t know if you’ll see this soon enough, but is there any way to extend blooming? My daturas had tons of blossoms for weeks, and now the last one opened last night. There are no more and I’m so sad. Would pruning cause it to flower again?

I buy seeds for this plant on the internet every year...along with the purple and yellow varieties. Hopefully someday they'll reseed themselves. The only time my nasty neighbors have ever spoken to me in a civil manner was to ask what this plant was. Unlike you, we still aren't friends, as they resent the invasive milkweed I have in my butterfly garden!

I like mixing the seeds with raisins, peanuts, chocolate chips and sunflower kernels for a trail snack . After a few handfuls you can go on long trips and never leave your house or property.

Nice

I got some seeds from a garden group a few months ago and the seeds kinda look like jalapeno seeds, not the normal moonflower with the large peanut looking seeds. Which one is the bushy one?

I am planning to plant this in a pot on my terrace here in Kolkata, India. We do not have hummingbirds here but we have sunbirds. They visit my terrace to feed on hibiscus. This flower blooms only at night, so how is it going to attract sunbirds during the day ?

I wonder why the bees and hummingbirds go for the nectar if it is toxic. Very interesting.

nice

I've never grown one but looks beautiful! Are these invasive and do you plant in sun or shade?

TEXAS!

How can you get the ones that smell nice? If I Google this I just get info about Jimsonweed which everyone says smells like rancid peanut butter.

How do you recommend preventing them overtaking a flowerbed? I've heard if you grow them near a fence they grab on and ruin the wood.

I’m very very very tempted to trip on datura but at the same time scared too haha

Nice video. How do I take the seedling that are growing in the sidewalk joints? Do I pull out then place in water or just set in seeding soil?

Great vid brilliant you looked past your neighbors attitude & made friends for the sake of getting the Moon flowers. Just heard about them today gotta wait upon the seeds but I think my source's variety is the common white flowering one. How would I get seeds for the purple one?

oh, so it is fragrant? I didn't know that.I know this plant though.if any body consume it they get drunk like.thanks for sharing.I subscribed.

How tall do these moon flowers grow & the width?

Now go get your garden on!!! Lol

Lisa, I enjoyed your video about Moonflower Datura. I wanted to mention that you repeat what you say about this beautiful flower twice in your video. I am not sure that you are aware of this happened.

I ate a crap ton of the seeds, and ended up in the hospital and tripping for 3 days.... I DO NOT RECOMMEND!

Datura Stramonium ?

Thanks ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Are you selling or trading any seeds..... I have a blue moon wisteria to trade if your interested?

Does anyone know where to buy a live plant online? I've been searching and just find a bunch of seed sellers. I don't trust them. I'm just looking to buy a live plant.

🌱🌱🌱Yes, poison and also hallucinogens. A better plant is a moon vine.

I have some Moonflower seeds. Can you tell me when I can plant them? I live in Texas

Do they produce seeds

I live in Orlando Florida. ..is there someone who can tell me where to find the evergreen wisteria?

This plant takes huge amount of water. Without it they dry up, I have to water mine everyday in the summer

I'm in Poteet Tx. Did I hear you say it is Tex friendly?

Beautiful flowers what do you do to get them very big?

how long will my datura take to give me its first blooms ... whats the average time?

There is also datura stramonium

How did you get yours to grow so big?

The devils weed. Its not a Psychedelic where you'll talk to god. It's a delirant and you'll dance with the devil,

I thought they close at day .-.

For some reason, my flowers died and I thought I got some seeds but there are nothing....so now I have no seeds to replant them!

beautiful but deadly

Can I grow it from its stem cutting

in mexico we considered that as a weed so they grow wild and i hate it the smell of the flowers are horrible i hate it

Can I buy some seeds from you? I only need enough to grow 2 strong plants.

Do you sell these seeds from your plant? I'd like some. :)

Aka: Jimson weed.

Do you know the variety? It looks like a datura inoxia.

Lol i thought at 1:36 you were going to poison her with the datura

My Moonflower bloomed lastnight but when I went in the morning to look....the whole flower shriveled up from the sun :(

Hindi me btaye

Do you know daturas are dangerous and can put you to sleep forever?

how to grow from seed?

Fast ho raha hai