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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 28, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

An Angel Trumpet taking after daddy

Today's featured Angel Trumpet seedling is from a cross between Brugmansia Rubiline x Pink Smitty.  As you can see, the bloom has a very strong resemblance to it's daddy, Pink Smitty. 

rubilinexpinksmitty-2.jpgWhen I snapped this picture it was still int he 80's at night so the bloom looks sort of wilted.  Any brug that holds up under our hot Florida summer weather is certainly worth watching.  Right now this is just another double pink to me so it will need to prove its worthiness if it is to remain in my breeding program.  Doubles usually take a couple of bloom cycles to settle in to their final look so this one will probably be kept around till winter.

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