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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, March 18, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

There's Angel Trumpet gold in my garden

This Angel Trumpet seedling has some of the nicest yellow blooms I have seen.  The seedling is from a cross involving Brugmansia Sommerzauber x Cassie's Curls.

sommerzauberxcassiescurls.jpgThe blooms remind me of Brenda Delph's Andrew's Gold.  So far the blooms have stayed yellow and not aged to orange like many yellows tend to do. 

sommerzauberxcassiescurls-2.jpgThis seedling has great parentage with Monika Gottschalk's Sommerzauber as pod bearer.  The father, Cassie's Curls is one of my favorite single orange brugmansia. What was exciting about this Brugmansia seedling was that it's first bloom cycle was a flush of about 10 blooms. 

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As you would expect,I have already pollinated all of these blooms and their pollen has been spread around various cultivars in my collection.  It's mother, Sommerzauber is in bud now so you can be certain a couple of those blooms will be dusted with pollen from this beauty when they open.

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