Last year I obtained a starter plant of Brumansia Super Rose and now it is finally large enough to bloom.Recently it produced its first bloom and so far I like what I see.Although this Angel Trumpet normally has layered double blooms, this particular bloom was stuffed and never dropped it's second skirt.  Brugmansia Super Rose is a Dorothea Langenberg introduction from a cross involving Charleston and L'Amour.  With that great parentage, I'm anxious to get this cultivar into my breeding ...

One of the challenges of growing Angel Trumpets in Florida is that we are limited to what is known as the warm weather group of brugmansia.  Actually at times our weather is even too hot for them, but they manage to adapt. Keeping the cool weather group, Sphaerocarpium, alive in Florida can be a real challenge.  One of the cultivars that can be grown in Florida with some TLC is 'Mobisu'.I almost lost my Mobisu plant this summer due to fertilizer burn.  What was once a two foot tall plant, ...

I would like to officially introduce everyone to Brugmansia 'Amber Glow', a new brugmansia cultivar I recently registered. Amber Rose is the result of a cross between Brugmansia L'amour and Charles Grimaldi.This Angel Trumpet is what I would call an "over achiever".  I think it bloomed more than any brug in my collection last summer, including Inca Sun!The blooms start out a nice yellow and then turns a golden orange.  Like many orange/yellow Angel Trumpets, the color deepens in the cooler ...

The past few days I have been trying to organize my gardening photographs from last year.  We are talking about thousands of images as I have a habit of taking lots of pics.  I was surprised at the number or really awesome blooms my Angel Trumpet seedlings produced last season.  Seeing how I'm only a few weeks away from my plants entering into a late winter bloom-a-palooza phase, I thought I would share some photos from my 2010 brugmansia seedlings during the next couple of weeks.  Today ...

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.It is a thick textured, wide body bloom with a flare to it.  I'm certain the color will deepen when the warm weather ...

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.  ...