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Mutant in paradise... Mutant in paradise...

Mutant in paradise...

Last season I ramped up my brugmansia hybridizing efforts using brugmansias with mutant and deeply serrated foliage.  The results of those...
Just what I need, another garden vice... Just what I need, another garden vice...

Just what I need, another garden vice...

Just what I need on my already overflowing plate, another garden vice! I'm totally swamped with my brugmansia hybridizing program  yet I...
An elegant brugmansia seedling earns keeper status An elegant brugmansia seedling earns keeper status

An elegant brugmansia seedling earns keeper status

I've been watching this brugmansia seedling perform for several years now and decided it was time to make it a keeper!
Looking back into the past.... Looking back into the past....

Looking back into the past....

It is hard to imagine that it has been nearly 5 years since I was actively posting to my garden blog. Today is the start of a new era as I commit to...
Introducing Brugmansia 'Audrey Lea' Introducing Brugmansia 'Audrey Lea'

Introducing Brugmansia 'Audrey Lea'

Brugmansia 'Audrey Lea' is a recent Sommer Gardens introduction with nearly red double blooms.  When you see the photo album below...

Fred's Garden Blog

After a nearly five year hiatus, Fred's Garden Blog is back! Now you can enjoy and experience the gardening exploits and adventures of Fred in his quest to hybridize brugmansia and keep his jungle and nursery under control.

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An intriguing Angel Trumpet seedling with unknown parentage

Why is it that the unknown brugmansia seedlings are always the first ones to catch your attention?  When I first saw this Angel Trumpet bloom I knew it was going to be one to watch.  At first it had a marbled look to it.  Although I was hoping that look would stay, I knew from past experience that total color would prevail.As the bloom matured, the color deepened.  This bloom is also unique in its form.  Most doubles and triples have a long corolla tube, while this bloom has a stubby one ...
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My favorite Angel Trumpet seedling this summer.

This Angel Trumpet seedling has to be the most promising one I'm growing this summer.  It is from a cross between brugmansia Rubirosa x The Chief.It bloomed for the first time last fall and has been putting on a non-stop show of blooms.  The blooms are always triples, they love the heat, and they have a great fragrance.Of the more than 50 seedlings I've had bloom from crosses involving "The Chief", this one is by far the best.  A special thanks to Liz Ficthl for making these seeds available ...
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Daydreaming with my Angel Trumpets

Today's featured Angel Trumpet bloom is another seedling with Daydreams as the father.  It's a brugmansia cross involving Butterfly and Daydreams.It had a quite impressive first bloom in our 95 degree heat.  Nice color, nice form, and great staying power.  Looks like another one to watch this fall!
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A classy Lady Liberty Angel Trumpet shows off her babies

After a couple days of featuring double pink Angel Trumpets, I decided its time to display this nice double white that came into bloom earlier this week.  These blooms are from a seedling from the brugmansia cross of Lady Liberty x Meloncholy Baby.So far the blooms have stayed snow white with no influence of color from its father, Meloncholy Baby.The blooms have staying power in the heat and this seedling likes to bloom.  As these blooms are fading it already had another flush of buds in the ...
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A nice pink Angel Trumpet seedling with great parents

Here's a nicely colored pink Angel Trumpet that has been blooming in our record heat.  It is from a cross between brugmansia Rubirosa and Sam.  With parentage like that you would expect this seedling to be one to watch.  I'll let this one try and impress me this fall when I decide which of the dozens of single pinks I'm watching make it to the keeper zone.
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Time to get back down to earth in my world of Angel Trumpets

It is hard to top yesterday's featured Angel Trumpet so I figured I would post more a traditional Aurea style bloom to bring us down to earth.  Here's a new bloom form a seedling from a cross involving brugmansia Rosamond and Pink Smitty.The blooms are thick textured and nod horizontally.  I'm not sure what I'll end up doing with this one but for now I'll let it be and see what it does this fall.
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Another double pink Angel Trumpet compliments of Butterfly

Here's another nice double pink Angel Trumpet with brugmansia Butterfly as the mom.  It is a carry over from last year that I have been watching this summer.  This seedling is from a Brenda Delph seed cross of brugmansia Butterfly x (Teri Shiavo x Earth Angel).I plant to cross it back to both Teri Shiavo and Earth Angel when the weather cools.  I'll decide this fall if it deserves to be named and registered. 
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A tale of two Smittys, an Angel Trumpet two for Tuesday!

Seeing how I posted today's seedling so early in the morning, I figured why not make this a "two for Tuesday" and post another new Angel Trumpet seedling?  Better yet, I'll post two more!  Actually it's just a single photo with two unique blooms.  Both are seedlings of a Brugmansia cross between Pink Smitty and an unknown father.   One is a double and the other a single.  While it appears they are growing on the same plant, they are actually on separate plants growing side by side. Actually ...
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