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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...

Fred's Garden Blog

After a nearly five year hiatus, Fred's Garden Blog is back! Now you can enjoy and experience the gardening exploits and adventures of Fred in his quest to hybridize brugmansia and keep his jungle and nursery under control.

Sommer Gardens / Monday, December 7, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Wow, this Angel Trumpet made me think Santa came early

If you asked Santa for a nice double pink Angel Trumpet for Christmas, you would certainly be pleased to receive this one.  For a first bloom, this one was awesome.

jacaynaxchief5xamerica.jpgThe color of this bloom was an unexpected outcome from a cross between brugmansia (Jacayna x The Chief) #5 x America.  The JACH5 seedling that produced this seedling was a bright yellow-orange single and America is one of my favorite double whites.  Here's a photo of the two parents together.

jach5andamerica.jpgThis is why hybridizing brugmansia is so exciting.  Although you may have certain expectations when you make a cross, you really never know what to expect when the seedlings bloom for the first time.  Here's another shot of this beautiful new double pink angel Trumpet.

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