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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 / Monday, October 12, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

My favorite Angel Trumpet seedling this summer.

This Angel Trumpet seedling has to be the most promising one I'm growing this summer.  It is from a cross between brugmansia Rubirosa x The Chief.

lizzy.jpgIt bloomed for the first time last fall and has been putting on a non-stop show of blooms.  The blooms are always triples, they love the heat, and they have a great fragrance.

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Of the more than 50 seedlings I've had bloom from crosses involving "The Chief", this one is by far the best.
 
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A special thanks to Liz Ficthl for making these seeds available and of course to Volker Sanders from Germany, who provided Liz with the seeds that created "The Chief".

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