Brugmansia Angel's Sweet Summer is gearing up for summer by blooming almost non-stop since our warm weather moved in last month.  This Angel Trumpet was introduced by Anne Kirchner-Abel and it thrives here in Florida, producing mass quantities of beautiful, rather plump, jumbo blooms.The foliage is a dark green and the plant is a vigorous grower.  In the warmer months the bloom color deepens to a very deep, dark pink.  I have several seed pods forming with Angel's Sweet Summer as a ...

The past few weeks I have had bunches of angel trumpet seedlings bloom for the first time, including an abundance with yellow blooms. One of the standouts from the yellow group was this seedling from a cross between Brugmansia Rosalie x Inca Sun.With their shiny glaze, the blooms almost appear to made out of porcelain.What I really like about this seedling is that it appears it took the best traits of both its parents, Brugmansia Rosalie and Inca Sun. The blooms are a very bright ...

Here's a rather formal looking bloom from a Brugmansia Butterfly x Joli cross. The blooms are medium in size and thick textured.As these Angel Trumpet blooms matured the corolla tube colored up nicely.  While I was examining the bloom closer the texture and color reminded me of Rosalie.  I'm certain the double genes came from the father as Joli often throws double blooms. I have several other Brugmansia Butterfly x Joli seedlings that have recently bloomed so I crossed this one back to one ...

Here's a European import that will play an important role in my spring hybridizing program.  The cultivar is Brugmansia 'Bergfee' and as you can see by the photo below it has a nice butter-yellow color and great form.I'm excited to announce that this bloom has evolved into a tiny seed pod with New Orleans Lady as the father.  If it holds it should produce some interesting offspring.

Look into my eyes....That's what this black racer appears to be thinking as he casts a rather psychotic stare my way.  After finding several snake skins amongst my plants this past week, I knew it would not be long until I found their owners. My cat happened to be close-by and of course had to come over and investigate what I was looking at .  Now that the snake realized it had quickly become a new cat toy, it quickly scurried away.

This new Angel Trumpet seedling has great form.  It is from an unknown cross with Brugmansia 'Taylor Dawn' as the pod parent.The blooms are much larger than those of its mother, Taylor Dawn.  I expect the blooms to color up more during our warm summer months.Some of my past Taylor Dawn seedlings have had some lavender color in their blooms so I plan to continue to cross them back to each other.  It is my hope that eventually one will produce a seedling with lavender blooms

It is not unusual for an Angel Trumpet plant to produce a shredded bloom from time to time but here's a Brugmansia seedling that has thrown two consecutive shredded blooms.  This has me hoping that this seedling will always be shredded.The seedling is a cross of Brugmansia Miss B Haven x Seminole Moon.  Too bad Seminole Moon's color did not carry through.I already have three shredded brugmansia cultivars in my collection; 'Shredded White', 'Shredded Pink', and 'Fantasma'.  The blooms on this ...

After a couple of weeks of near 80 degree weather, my reptilian friends have come out of hibernation.  The tree frogs are a welcome site because there are way too many flying insects making their rounds.I'm hoping these guys stay alert as well because I have spotted a couple of nice sized snake skins amongst my seedlings.