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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, September 1, 2010 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Another Angel Trumpet in the Shooting Star Trilogy

Seeing how I have another Angel Trumpet seedling from a cross involving Shooting Star in bloom now, I thought I might as well make this a Shooting Star Trilogy.  Here is a bloom from a Brugmansia Shooting Star x New Orleans Lady seedling.

shootingstarxneworleanslady.jpgAs the blooms mature the color deepens and the tendrils re-curve as shown in the photo above.  The blooms start out a nice soft pink with long tendrils as you can see below. 

shootingstarxneworleanslady-3.jpgThis seedling is a monster, towering close to ten feet tall right now.  It has been a regular bloomer this summer and was one of the first seedlings to start blooming following our winter freeze.  I was able to set a few seed pods on it this spring and I recently harvested the pods and planted the seeds.  I know I have other seedlings from this cross growing out so hopefully by fall I'll be able to showcase some of its siblings. 

shootingstarxneworleanslady-2.jpg
As far as fragrance goes, it does have a pleasant one.  I do not have the best nose for fragrances, so that is why I do not always note the fragrance when I post info on my seedlings.
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