Look out bugs, this guy is hungry and he's keeping watch over my brugmansia tonight!

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 ...

Geeze, what's up with this weather.  I went out at 12:30am to look for new blooms and the temperature was 81 degrees out!!!  That is about 10 degrees warmer than it should be for this time of year.Orlando set a new record high of 93 on Sunday.   It was actually a couple degrees warmer out here in Clermont.The good news is that a cold front is supposed to come down next weekend and drop our temps down to the normal zone for October.I'm ready!

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 ...

This weekend I decided to make a dent in my fall propagating schedule and here's the result:I ended up filling 48 trays of assorted Angel Trumpets.  Each tray has 50 cells so that equals 2,400 potential brugmansia plants.  Add that total to the ones I did a few weeks ago and I'll already have over 3,000 liners ready to pot up in spring.  That number should double next month when I start phase two of my propagation schedule.

I ran into a really strange spider having a snack tonight.  The spider was not as strange as its small iridescent blue web embedded within its larger web.  The blue web almost appeared to glow.  I have never seen anything like that before.  Perhaps the spider had a lunch of fireflies earlier hence the glowing web??? 

Whoa, look what I almost ran into tonight...a nice big ole banana spider!This is the time of year when these guys appear everywhere.  There's plenty of flying bugs around for them to eat so they get big fast.  Now that I have a mental marker where this web is, I leave him alone because I know I will not run into it again.  

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!