While I was out taking a moonlit stroll through my Angel Trumpets last night, I came across some additional orange blooms that really caught my eye.  They are from a cross of brugmansia Cassie's Curls x an unknown father.  I have a bunch of seedlings from this cross growing and so far they have yielded quite a diverse group of blooms.The unique coloration and fat blooms were unlike any blooms I have seen on cultivars growing here in the states.  I'll be watching this one for the next few ...

Today's featured Angel Trumpet blooms are the outcome of the mixed marriage of the America brugmansia Butterfly, and the German brugmansia Joli.  Butterfly is a classic American hybrid and Joli is a European one.When you look at the results you can see quality traits from both parents in the blooms.  So far all the blooms have been resilient, six pointers, with a nice fragrance.  The blooms have lasted nearly a week and what was surprising was that the tendrils held up equally as well.  ...

Last year I made a bunch of crosses involving Brugmansia Axel Rose in hopes that its variegation would be passed on either by genes or by a sport on a new seedling.  The last thing I expected was to find a seedling with blooms as bright as these.  Pictured below are blooms from a cross between brugmansia Mountain Treasure and Axel Rose.  The actual color was what I would call a cantaloupe orange and is much more intense than what is shown in this picture.   The blooms are also quite large ...

Seeing how today is Halloween, I figured it would only be appropriate to post a few pictures of blooms fit for Halloween.and another....and the scariest of all -

I have a bunch of brugmansia seedlings with missing or unreadable tags.   Just because the parentage is unknown, it does not mean the seedling is not worthy of keeping.  I spotted a couple of unknown Angel Trumpet blooms this afternoon that earned a second glance.  The first is a single pink that stood out because it has a very fat corolla tube.The second was a double white whose tendrils appeared to glow. The golden tipped tendrils do not show in this picture though.

Today's featured Angel Trumpet seedling is from a cross between brugmansia Tiara x (Ludger's Windsong x Susanne).  While this bloom was a little bit beat-up by the wind, you can still see the one feature that made this bloom unique, dark ribs and a lighter center.  It is even more pronounced when you look up at the blooms.  This bloom was almost on the ground so I'll snap a few more pictures in a couple weeks when the top level blooms open.

I spotted this new Angel Trumpet bloom today that has to be one of the longest blooms I have ever spotted on a seedling.  It is from a brugmansia seedling involving a cross between Pink Beauty and Double Peach.  It is just over 20 inches long from the receptacle to the end of the bloom!  You can compare it to the normal size white bloom on the right.

This new Angel Trumpet seedling has stood out from the rest from its very first set of blooms.  The first blooms were all split and quite unusual looking.  It sure redeemed itself with its second flush with well-formed blooms bursting with color.The result of a brugmansia cross between Inca Sun x (Bert x unknown), this seedling has not stopped blooming since the first buds appeared.This new seedling is destined to be a winner.  I just wish it would stop blooming so I can grab some cuttings ...