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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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Sommer Gardens / Tuesday, January 5, 2010 / Categories: Brugmansia, Weather, Seedlings

A giant Angel Trumpet with super-sized blooms

Here's an Angel Trumpet seedling carry over from last year.  It is a cross from brugmansia Pink Beauty x Native Habitat Double Peach.

pinkbeautyxdoublepeach.jpgThis brugmansia, with its  super-sized blooms, put on such a show last year that I just could not stand to toss it out.  This past Spring I planted it in my yard where it has been performing nicely ever since.

pinkbeautyxdoublepeach-2.jpgThe blooms start out white and then slowly age to a nice peach color.  While it is blooming you end up with white, peach, and in-between colored blooms on the plant at the same time.  This Angel Trumpet likes to grow tall and is a perfect candidate to grow as a standard.  I'm still not sure if I will register this one or just leave it grow in my yard.  It is a real attention grabber when it flushes out with blooms.

pinkbeautyxdoublepeach-3.jpgRight now I dropped the plant down to the ground so I could cover it in advance of the  mega-freeze that is grabbing hold of Florida this week.  If it survives the freeze, it will earn its keep for sure. 
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