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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 / Friday, August 28, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia

Interesting, but not sure if worth keeping

This hybrid brugmansia cross between Orange Sunshine and Pink Smitty has already produced a bunch of single white Angel Trumpets.  This week one of the seedlings finally produced some color.  The blooms are sort of an off white rimmed with yellow.

orangesunshinexpinksmitty1-2.jpgThis cross is one of several where I decided to grow out an entire seed pod so I could document the great diversity in blooms from a single cross.  In this case it was a mixture of seeds from several pods of the same cross, resulting in about 100 plants.

orangesunshinexpinksmitty1-1.jpg
The reason why I may not keep this one is because the blooms look like wet tissue paper in the heat.  Once the sun starts to set they perk right up though.

I'll post another bloom from this group of seedlings tomorrow.




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