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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, June 23, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Brugmansia Miss Ellie produces a keeper

This crisp yellow Angel Trumpet bloom is from an unknown cross with Brugmansia Miss Ellie as the pod parent.

misselliexunknown-2.jpgWe can thank the bees for helping produce this beauty.  I had placed this seedling in my watch zone last summer and now it has earned itself keeper status. It is now in my queue of Brugmansia to be named and registered later this year. 

misselliexunknown.jpgThe blooms are similar in size to those of its mother, Miss Ellie, but with longer corolla teeth and more intense color.  The plant is a vigorous grower and has has quickly outgrown Miss Ellie.

misselliexunknown-3.jpgNow that I'm harvesting ripe seed pods, I'm switching from being in hybridizing mode to propagating mode.  This seedling will be one of the first I cut on tomorrow when I start preparing cuttings for rooting.



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