Today's features Angel Trumpet seedling is one I have been growing for a couple of years now.  It is a cross between brugmansia Color Point x Angel's Flight, both from Germany.  The blooms are large and plentiful and the plant is a vigorous grower. It has a very strong resemblance to its mother, Color Point. I have used this Angel Trumpet seedling in dozens and dozens of crosses since last year, both as a pod parent and as a father.  I'm hoping a few of the Angel's Flight genes have been ...

Today's Angel Trumpet is getting its act together with its form, but it is certainly needs an injection of color.  This seedling is an offspring from a brugmansia cross involving Miss 'B Havin x Seminole Moon.  Several blooms preceded the one pictured, but none have colored up more than this one shows.  We just had some cool weather move in so maybe that will have an influence on the next bloom that is about to open.  After shooting this photo I pollinated this bloom with some pollen from ...

Here's an Angel Trumpet seedling that bears a strong resemblance to its father, Rosalie.  Today's featured seedling is a cross between brugmansia Bernstein x Rosalie.  Now if we could just get Bernstein's bright orange color into this bloom, and add Rosalie's hardiness and blooming ability, we would surely have a winner.  This seedling has potential and will be used in further hybridizing.

While preparing today's featured Angel Trumpet seedling, I came across photographs of a sibling from the same brugmansia cross that bloomed in early October.  I had prepared the photos to post back then, but forgot to create the post.  The cross is brugmansia Shooting Star x Masquerade.  Here's a photo I took in October of the first seedling from this cross to bloom.  You would not expect to see a pink bloom when you cross Shooting Star, a single orange, to Masquerade, a double/triple ...

Well this is certainly a strange Angel Trumpet bloom.  The outer skirt of the bloom is a deep green while the inner layers have colored up. it is not uncommon to find the innermost skirt to be late to develop, but I have never seen this happen with the outer skirt.  It is almost as if the skirt layers are reversed in this bloom.  Perhaps it was just the first bloom jitters for this brugmansia seedling?  I'm anxious to see what the next bloom does.

Here's a baby anole lizard that was learning how to keep watch over my brugs tonight.  With his tail extended he was just over two inches long.  What a cutie...

Today's featured Angel Trumpet seedling is from a cross between brugmansia Goldfinch x Rubirosa.  The blooms are large with a nice form and color.  This seedling is quite different from a previous seedling from brugmansia Goldfinch x Rubirosa that I commented on in August.  That seedling had petite, single white blooms.  I still have a couple more seedlings from this cross yet to bloom.  It would be great if one combined Goldfinch's color with the style of the bloom pictured above.  You ...

Last night when I was out making my rounds, I came across several additional large slugs amongst my brugmansia seedlings. Now I know why the slugs are so large.  Not only are they eating my Angel Trumpets, they are eating the fertilizer I recently applied as well!!!Finding so many large slugs in such a short period of time convinced me that I need to resort to chemical warfare if I am going to get them under control.  While I was at the growers supply store today I purchased some ...