what's back there? part 2

We've got two Angel's Trumpet plants in the back yard. In terms of size, these things are about 10 feet tall, and right now they are loaded full of flowers. In fact, they haven't stopped flowering since we moved in.

We've been at the house long enough to see the pollination/fertilization cycle of these flowers. The pollinated flowers will drop their flower petals and leave a miniature cucumber-like pod behind. This thing turns dark green, then dries up and wilts to a brown, then eventually drops to the ground and splits open to reveal a bunch of oddly-shaped seeds.

Along with everything else, these Angel's Trumpet plants are shooting out new stalks and limbs. When Dad P was around in February, we chopped a significant limb off and I bet the gap it left will be filled in the next couple months.

-M