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Mutant in paradise...

Last season I ramped up my brugmansia hybridizing efforts using brugmansias with mutant and deeply serrated foliage.  The results of those...

Fred's Garden Blog

After a nearly five year hiatus, Fred's Garden Blog is back! Now you can enjoy and experience the gardening exploits and adventures of Fred in his quest to hybridize brugmansia and keep his jungle and nursery under control.

Sommer Gardens / Friday, December 28, 2007 / Categories: Hybridizing, Brugmansia, Seedlings

Anticipation.....

One of the toughest parts of growing out brugmansia seedlings is waiting for the blooms to open.  Sometimes it takes weeks for the buds to open.  Of course the more you watch them, the longer it takes them to open.  With brugs, the dominant color is white.  For me this equates to about every three out of four seedlings I grow having white blooms.  amxcs04a.jpgThis monster bud is playing with my mind right now.  I know it is going to at least be a double bloom and it appears to have a yellowish tint to it.  There is not an abundance of double yellow  brugmansia available in the United States so having a large yellow brug would be awesome.  I don't want to get my hopes up yet because many blooms start out cream colored and then end up being solid white or pink.  It looks like it will be fully open on Christmas day, and what a great Christmas present a large double yellow bloom would be for me!
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