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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 / Wednesday, October 21, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

A jewel of an Angel Trumpet

Today's featured Angel Trumpet seedling is a carry over from 2008 that I plan to name and register this fall.  It is the result of a J.T. Session's brugmansia cross involving Goldfinch x Peanut.

goldfinchxpeanut-3.jpgAs you can see, the blooms tend to stay horizontal or slightly nodding.  The tendrils start out sort of wild but over the course of a couple of days they completely re-curve back.

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The blooms are petite and compact, like its father, Peanut.  I remember the blooms staying a light pink last winter, and then once warm weather moved in they became much darker.  Check back in late November for the official introduction of this beauty.

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