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Last season I ramped up my brugmansia hybridizing efforts using brugmansias with mutant and deeply serrated foliage.  The results of those...

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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.

Sommer Gardens / Tuesday, July 13, 2010 / Categories: Brugmansia

A Brugmansia good enough to eat!

Just kidding, you definitely do not want to eat an Angel Trumpet bloom, no matter how delicious it may look.  Here's a photograph of Brugmansia Lizzy that reminds me of a strawberry ice cream cone - yum!

lizzy-cone-2.jpgLizzy just loves our Florida weather.  I think when brugs are born and raised in the heat, they perform better in the heat.  I see brugmansia enthusiasts from the north comment on how all their brugs look like wet tissue paper in the summer heat.  When I go for stroll through my Brugmansia forest when I'm home for lunch, I see lots of brug blooms in perfect form, including some with perky tendrils reaching up to the hot Florida sun.

Another good thing about Lizzy, unlike ice cream, she does not melt.

Here she is again, right side up!

lizzy-cone.jpg


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