When you cross Angel Trumpets you never know what to expect.  Here's a cross of brugmansia Little Miss Lili x Jamie's Monkey Business.  LML is one of the darkest pinks I have.  Under the right conditions it almost appears red.  Jamie's Monkey Business is a bright yellow with plenty of orange genes in its family tree.This one certainly has Little Miss Lili's form.  I'm not sure what I will do with it, but any colorful, well shaped seedling that blooms during a hot Florida summer is worthy of ...

I hope this will not become a regular feature, but when I stumble across a new creature during my nightly stroll through my field of brugs, I just have to share it....and there never seems to be a shortage of creatures here in Florida.  I'm always amazed at how many sets of eyes I see when I walk around at night with a headlamp on. It's the ones I don't see that scare me!Tonight I found this locust emerging from its old skin.  I'm not sure if they actually eat brugs so I left him be.  I must ...

While out for a moonlit stroll amongst my Angel Trumpets tonight I stumbled upon this handsome fellow.  He was working his way up my Snowbank brugmansia plant.

This Angel Trumpet bloom from the brugmansia cross of Mountain Treasure x (Miss Caylie x Genevieve #7)!   It was the winner of this weekend's best new seedling to bloom in the heat of summer competition.  When I first spotted this bloom Saturday afternoon I expected it to remain white as the five or six seedlings that already bloomed from this cross had.  When I made my rounds on Sunday I was pleasantly surprised to find color. I like the curly tendrils and form so this one gets to hang ...

While out for a moonlit stroll amongst my Angel Trumpets tonight I stumbled upon this handsome fellow.  He was working his way up my Snowbank brugmansia plant.I'm used to seeing the green praying mantis around my plants but I think this is the first time I spotted one this color.He was on a mission to climb up to the top of this five foot tall plant.I asked him to pray for blooms on this plant and he kindly obliged!

Here's a cross just begging for some color.  This is a brugmansia cross of New Orleans Lady x (Angel's Flight x Charming).  The first couple of blooms in spring aged to a nice apricot, but during our hot summer the blooms have been white/cream with perhaps just a hint of apricot.

This new Angel Trumpet seedling is worthy of watching for a few more bloom cycles to see what it does.  It is a cross between brugmansias Rubirosa and Desiree. 

Dazed and confused is a great description for these Angel Trumpet blooms.  This is the first seedling of my cross between brugmansia Inca Sun and Masquerade to bloom.