This week I was rewarded with a beautiful Angel Trumpet bloom from a Brenda Delph cross involving Brugmansia Terri Schindler Schiavo x New Orleans Lady.This seedling bloomed for the first time back in Spring of 2008,  I almost lost this Brugmansia seedling for good during one of our previous freezes.  Fortunately it has rebounded, and after taking its time growing this past summer it is finally back in bloom.  I really like its crazy tendrils.I'm hoping it will color up some more as spring ...

In preparation for our December freeze I knocked down over 1,000 gallon-sized pots of my brugmansia seedlings and piled them up in a long row.  This made them much easier to cover and protect.  The majority of these seedlings were ones from 2009 that came back from their roots after being damaged in last year's freeze.  They were scattered around in various locations and it would have been nearly impossible to cover all of them.  The majority of the seedlings are now blooming size and range ...

While prepping my Angel Trumpets yesterday for yet another freeze, I discovered this beautiful new double orange seedling.  It was like having Christmas all over again! This seedling is from a cross of Brugmansia Ludger's Windsong x (Color Point x Double Dark Rosetta) 6.This cross may sound familiar because I featured one of its siblings in this blog post last month.  It was a super sized single orange that quickly earned keeper status. I'll be anxiously waiting for the next set of blooms on ...

Another great surprise and certainly a nice way to end the year was spotting these Angel Trumpet blooms on a seedling from Brugmansia Hawaiian Double White x (L'Amour x Day Dreams).This seedling was carried over from 2009 and finally came back in bloom after a near death experience in last year's freeze.  The calyx is normally not dry and crispy as shown in the photo, that is just the effect from our most recent freeze.These blooms have a very strong resemblance to Brugmansia Day Dreams.  ...

This week I had one of my second generation crosses involving Brugmansia Lizzy bloom.  The cross is Lizzy x Orange Zest, both of which have "The Chief" as a father.  .Lizzy came from a cross between Brugmansia Rubirosa x The Chief, and Orange Zest is a Jacayna x The Chief cross.  Both  were introduced and registered this past year.I was hoping some of Orange Zest's color would transfer over to a Lizzy style bloom, but instead the outcome was a rather simple double white Angel Trumpet.  The ...

While working on my brugs today I came across this seedling from a cross I made between Brugmansia Orange Zest x Genevieve.This is the second seedling from this cross to bloom.  The first one was snow white and I posted a photo of it earlier this week here.  At least this one has a hint of color, but it could certainly use a few more color genes from it's mother, Orange Zest.  The bloom was quite large and would look great in yellow or orange. This bloom was actually buried under the foliage ...

How can you not help but feel better when Langenbuscher Garten is in bloom?Here it is again with Brugmansia Angel's Exotic in the background.  Angel's Exotic blooms nearly red in the in the summer, but in winter the blooms are a light pink.Here's a promising new white Angel Trumpet from a cross involving Brugmansia Orange Zest x Genevieve.Brugmansia Flame has beautiful blooms, but it could use some additional color.  I have seed pods forming on Flame that could give these blooms the ...

Going into this weeks freeze I was concerned about the 100+ pods that have already set on my Angel Trumpets.  The pods are in various stages of development, from a few weeks old to 6-8 weeks old.  I have some great crosses going this year including these using Brugmansia Lizzy as the pod parent.  Here's a young Lizzy x Angel's Gold Face pod.After two back to back frigid winters, I am determined to keep my plants alive this winter.  This week's hard freeze brought the temperatures down to the ...