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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 / Friday, June 1, 2012 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

A pastel Angel Trumpet just in time for summer

I'm really liking the pastel coloring on the Angel Trumpet blooms pictured below from a cross I made between Brugmansia 'Joli' and 'Pink Charm'.

jolixpinkcharm3-2.jpgI'm excited about the multicolor look of the blooms as they mature.  They first start out a cream color and then during the course of a couple days they turn a salmon pink color.  The blooms pictured here opened a day apart and you can see the color transformation taking place.  This plant also had a newly opened cream colored bloom on it, but it was not photo quality so I did not take any shots of it.  I'm looking forward to seeing a larger flush of blooms on the plant with each of the three colors represented.
jolixpinkcharm3.jpg
I've had several seedlings from this cross bloom already and each so far each has had a distinct look.  When you look back at another seedling from this same cross I featured earlier here - http://sommergardens.com/SommerGardens/2012/04/a-coily-new-angel-trumpet-seed.html, it is hard to envision they are from the same parents.

This seedling will join it's coily sister in my watch zone for a summer trialing.


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