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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 / Sunday, January 30, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia

My Angel Trumpets are telling me Spring is on the way!

While I was working in my Brugmansia forest over the weekend I noticed many of the plants are loading up with buds.  While it will be a couple of weeks until most of the new buds mature and open, a few have just started blooming.  Here's a new Angel Trumpet seedling that just bloomed for the first time.  It is from a cross I made between Brugmansia Butterfly x Angel's Exotic.

butterflyxangelsexotic.jpgIt is a thick textured, wide body bloom with a flare to it.  I'm certain the color will deepen when the warm weather rolls in a few months from now.

butterflyxangelsexotic2.jpgBrugmansia Angel's Exotic has been an over-achiever here in Florida so I made numerous crosses with it.  I already have a couple of Brugmansia Joli x Angel's Exotic seedlings in my watch zone along with an Brugmansia Inca Sun x Angel's Exotic seedling the really wowed me in December.  You can be assured that my main Angel's Exotic plant will be covered with seed pods come spring.

The best is yet to come!
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