Today's featured Angel Trumpet seedling has a rich cantaloupe color.  It is a seedling from the cross of brugmansia Pink Perfektion x Cassies Curls. The blooms are slightly fragrant and long lasting. Seeing how this is the first seedling from this cross to bloom, I'll let it hang around for a while just in case I need it to cross back to its siblings.  Compared to some of the other "oranges" I have in my watch zone already, I'm not sure this one is special enough to move up to the watch zone. 

Look what I found when I was making my rounds tonight.  These darn slugs are relentless in their quest to eat all my brugs!Although I applied snail and slug bait in my primary growing areas, I did not treat all the independent brugmansias growing in my yard.  That's where I found these guys eating away tonight.  Unfortunately for them it ended up being their last supper...

As I have mentioned before, the Angel Trumpet cross between brugmansia Orange Sunshine x Pink Smitty is one where I am growing out an entire seed pod so that I can document the wide variety of blooms a single cross will produce.  I can't remember the exact count, but I know I have well over 100 seedlings from this cross growing.  So far most of the seedlings that have bloomed from this cross have been single or double whites.  None have earned a spot in my keeper zone, but a few are worthy ...

Today I'm featuring another Angel Trumpet seedling that was carried over from my 2008 watch zone.  It's a beautiful double pink Angel Trumpet from the Brugmansia cross of Adeline x Rosalie.  This particular seedling was labeled #4, meaning I had several from this cross bloom last year.What makes this Angel Trumpet stand out from the other double pink brugmansia seedlings I have in my watch zone is the lush, dark green foliage.  The leaves are large and slightly serrated, and the blooms ...

Today's featured Angel Trumpet seedling is one I carried over from 2008 to watch.  It is from a cross of brugmansia Genevieve x Rothkirch.  Rothkirch is a legendary brugmansia whose genes have enriched dozens of named cultivars.  What I like most about this particular cross is the rich pink color and that the color runs all the way up the corolla tube.  I plan to cross this one back to several of Rothkirch's siblings to see what the next generation brings.

That's what this little tree frog appears to be thinking as he hangs on to his very own Angel Trumpet bud.I'm sure he's enjoying tonight's muggy summer like weather.

Of course I'm referencing Angel Trumpet Jamie's Monkey Business, who happens to be the mother of this fine seedling. This seedling was the first one to bloom from a batch I have growing from the cross between brugmansia Jamie's Monkey Business x Angel's Moonlight.  At one point all the tendrils were pointing straight up, but now they are becoming a bit more relaxed.I'm awaiting a big surprise this week when this seedling's neighbor, a seedling from Jamie's Monkey Business x America, first ...

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. The 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.This is why hybridizing brugmansia is ...