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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 / Thursday, October 28, 2010 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Angel Trumpets show their fall colors

Seeing how we do not have the traditional fall color change down here in Florida, I have decided share photos of the golden color we do have.  During the next 7-10 days I'm going share photos of golden colored Angel Trumpet blooms.  They will all be from seedlings that have either just recently bloomed, or are currently in bloom. 

I'll start with a photo from this very promising Angel Trumpet seedling involving a cross between Brugmansia Ludger's Windsong x (Ludger's Summer Dream x Creamsicle).

ludgerswindsongxludgerssummerdreamxcreamsicle-2.jpgThe pollen father of this seedling, Ludger's Summer Dream x Creamsicle, originated from a Brenda Delph cross I grew out back in 2007.  The one seedling from that cross I carried over had lots of good qualities, but color was not one of them.  I decided to cross it back to various orange and yellow brugmansia I had in my collection with the goal of injecting some color genes into the rather drab cream colored blooms.  It worked as you can see by these photos.
ludgerswindsongxludgerssummerdreamxcreamsicle.jpgThis seedling will definitely be carried over to 2011 and will also be used in a few crosses this winter.

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