Brugmansia 'Angels Golden Showers' has finally bloomed for me and I'm excited to be able to start using it in my hybridizing program.The color is actually darker than what is shown in these photos.  So far all the blooms have been triples, starting out with separated skirts.  As the blooms mature the corolla skirts re-curve back and the bloom becomes more compact.When the bloom is fully mature, it has a strong resemblance to one of my Daydreams x Ludger's Windsong seedlings.  I'm anxious to ...

Here's a final batch of photos of winter blooms from my hibiscus collection.  Hibiscus 'Orange Lagos' pictured below is one of the brightest oranges I have ever seen.If you like your blooms more delicate, Hibiscus 'Cajun Princess' is a good choice. It is easy to see how Hibiscus 'Flame Thrower' got its name. Below is Hibiscus 'Improved Crimson Ray'. Multicolor Hibiscus 'Gone Fishing' and its jumbo sized blooms make for one impressive plant.And finally Hibiscus 'Sun-Charm' is a real ...

One Angel Trumpet that has really been putting on a show this winter is Brugmansia 'Herbstzauber'. This beautiful cultivar is just winding down from a mega-flush.  I bet I had over 100 blooms on my cluster of plants.  It was a challenge to capture a photo showing the giant flush because it was occurring at the same time we were finishing my shadehouse construction. All my large plants were bunched together closely to give us more working room.Brugmansia 'Herbstzauber' is Monika Gottschalk ...

Several years ago I made lots of crosses with Brugmansia Sweetheart as the pod parent.  Here's a seedling from a cross I made between Brugmansia Sweetheart x Whiskers that is blooming now.I carried this Angel Trumpet over to my watch zone last year because I liked the looks of its separated skirts and the very thick textured blooms.  Thicker textured blooms hold up better in the heat and I like to use those crosses in my hybridizing program to cross back to cultivars whose blooms need some ...

Introducing Brugmansia 'Pink Cadillac', a new brugmansia I just named and registered with the International Brugmansia and Datura Society.I grew this seedling out from a cross made by Brenda Delph involving Brugmansia Adeline x Miss Caylie.It is from an older group of seedlings carried over from 2007, the year I first started growing Angel Trumpets from seeds.This seedling has been blooming for several years and thrives here in Florida.  At first I was on the fence about registering it, but ...

My first holiday project took about a week longer than I had anticipated to finish, but we wrapped it up just in time.  As we were affixing the last piece of poly film to the roof the nighttime temperature had already dropped down to freezing.I still have some cleaning up to do around the structure, but for the most part it is 100% completed.This new shade structure offers just under 9,000 square feet of protection for my brugmansia.  Because it was built on a slight slope, the inside height ...

Here are some additional recent photos of my exotic hibiscus in bloom this winter. Above is hibiscus 'Caprice' and below is one I grew from seed, hibiscus 5th Dimension x (Jason Blue x Wallflower).Here's hibiscus 'Tahitian Golden Eye'. Below is a jumbo-sized bloom from Hibiscus 'Idolize'.I'll have one more batch of hibiscus photos to show you later this week.

I thought I would try and warm things up on this frigid winter day with some recent photos from my collection of exotic hibiscus.  Here is Hibiscus 'Chili Fire'.Hibiscus 'Cajun Blue' The hibiscus below is one I grew from seed.  The cross is Hibiscus (Mystic x Cajun Swamp Music) x (Nightfire x Sunshower)Hibiscus 'Chartreuse Rose'Hibiscus 'Nitro Express' More to follow later this week.