By now I'm sure you're ready to see some color, but first I have one more white Angel Trumpet to show you.  This is brugmansia seedling is on my TBR (to be registered) list for this fall.  It is a cross of Pink Smitty x Miss Ellie.  I had about a dozen seedlings from this cross bloom last year and about half were carried over to watch this summer.  This was the first one to bloom and it blooms more than all the others combined.As you can see in the photo below, the blooms are semi-nodding ...

Orange Sunshine that is.  Here's a bloom from another Angel Trumpet seedling from the cross of brugmansia Orange Sunshine x Pink Smitty.  The first bloom to open on this seedling was a stuffed one as you can see below. The remaining blooms in this initial flush were more stacked.  The blooms lasted for several days under our hot Florida sun and they filled the air with a pleasant fragrance at night.  If it maintains those traits during the rest of the summer I'll make some crosses with it ...

This hybrid brugmansia cross between Orange Sunshine and Pink Smitty has already produced a bunch of single white Angel Trumpets.  This week one of the seedlings finally produced some color.  The blooms are sort of an off white rimmed with yellow.This cross is one of several where I decided to grow out an entire seed pod so I could document the great diversity in blooms from a single cross.  In this case it was a mixture of seeds from several pods of the same cross, resulting in about 100 ...