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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 / Tuesday, August 4, 2009 / Categories: Seedlings

For those of you who like them big...

If you like big blooms, then this seedling is one for you.  It is a cross between Adeline, a large double pink brugmansia x Miss Emily Mackenzie, perhaps the largest of the single pink Angel Trumpets. 

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This monster sized bloom measures at least 10 inches across!  Despite its size, the blooms hold up very well in the hot Florida sun.

As you can see in the second picture, the blooms carry forward the curly tendrils from their father.

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This is the second year of observation for this one and I'll decide by fall if it is worthy of registering and naming. 





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