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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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Let there be white...a whole week's worth!

This is my self proclaimed white Angel Trumpet week!  From today through Labor Day each one of my daily featured brugmansia seedlings will be white.   I'll kick off white week with today's featured seedling, a cross between brugmansia Masquerade and Inca Sun.We know where the curly pigtails came from.  Masquerade is a beautiful petite triple white with curly tendrils like the ones pictured here.A few weeks ago I posted a photo from the reverse of this cross, where Inca Sun was the mom.  I ...
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Another glimse of sunshine...

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 ...
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Interesting, but not sure if worth keeping

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 ...
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Pretty in pink...

While I'm on the subject of unknowns, here's a beautiful double pink Angel Trumpet that came into bloom this week.  It is missing its tag but hey, when you look as nice as this brugmansia does, who cares who your parents are.  This one will be a keeper for sure.  I plan to chop up a portion of it this weekend to see how easy it propagates.
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Unknown, but not forgotten

For various reasons i have a bunch of Angel Trumpet seedlings growing that have either lost their tags or the tag has faded beyond recognition.  Just because I don't know their parentage does not mean the brugmansia is not worthy of keeping or breeding.Here is an unknown white that has been blooming like crazy this summer.I'm not sure I'll use it for anything, but I feel it is worthy of at least planting in the yard and letting it grow.   
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