What Is It?

One of my dad's breakfast friends gave him a bunch of pepper plants & three of these unknown plants.  Dad passed them off to hubby & I.  

 The pepper plants went in the garden.  The three unknown plants stayed in pots on the patio.  That is they stayed in pots until we went to TN for the summer.

Hubby planted them in the ground before we left.

When we returned one of the plants had grown into a tree! 

Hubby trimmed it back, but it did not look right so he dug it up & threw it away.

I didn't even think of taking a picture before he dug it up.

I have been watching the remaining two plants.

Now they look like this!

 I had an idea of what they might be called, so of course I googled it.

What did we do before google??

The plants are Ballerina Purple Angel Trumpet Flowers!!

Here is what Park Seed had to say about the flower:

Marvelously fragrant and exotic in both color and size, this eye-popping Angel's Trumpet looks like something from a hot-house instead of an easy-to-grow, sun-loving tropical you can start from seed! Unlike single-flowered Angel's Trumpet blooms, which dangle, Ballerina Purple looks upward, the immense 6- to 8-inch flowers exquisitely whorled and twisted to show off their beauty! In the container or the sun-soaked garden, this summer-blooming show-off is a scene-stealer!

The plant is quite compact in containers, reaching only about a 2- to 3-feet high and 3 feet wide. In the garden, it forms a dense, well-branched shrub 3- to 4-feet tall and slightly wider. Beginning in early summer and continuing until the fall weather sets in, the plant is covered with magnificent blooms, so fragrant that a single plant perfumes the garden! Large, very attractive fruits follow the blooms, and should be cut for splendid accents to fresh and dried arrangements.