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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, November 10, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Brugmansia Bert joins forces with Naughty Nick

In my early days of hybridizing Angel Trumpets I made numerous crosses with Brugmansia Bert. Here is the result of one of those crosses with Brugmansia Naughty Nick as the pollen parent.

bertxnaughtynick-2.jpgThis batch of seedlings took longer than normal to bloom for the first time after being damaged in our 2009 and 2010 freezes.  I have three separate seedlings from this cross in bloom right now and the blooms on all three are very similar in appearance, but the bloom size varies.  On one seedling the blooms are almost identical to the ones pictured, but are half the size.bertxnaughtynick.jpgI'm hoping Naughty Nick's bright orange will appear in future flushes.  If not, I still like the looks of this seedling and plan to carry it and a couple of its siblings over to next year.




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