Thursday, November 26, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 5981 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating What's up with this Angel Trumpet bloom? Well this is certainly a strange Angel Trumpet bloom. The outer skirt of the bloom is a deep green while the inner layers have colored up. it is not uncommon to find the innermost skirt to be late to develop, but I have never seen this happen with the outer skirt. It is almost as if the skirt layers are reversed in this bloom. Perhaps it was just the first bloom jitters for this brugmansia seedling? I'm anxious to see what the next bloom does. Categories:Brugmansia Tags:Angel TrumpetBrugmansiabrugsodditiesSeedlings Read more
Thursday, November 19, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 6125 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating This Angel Trumpet is looking better and better All I can say is wow, this fat little Angel Trumpet sure is coloring up nicely. The color has turned a richer orange since the photo I shot yesterday afternoon. It is quite the porker too. The bloom is fully stuffed so it must be at least a triple. I plan to cut it open tonight to see if it has any pollen. Of course while I'm in there I may do some pollinating too. :) Categories:BrugmansiaSeedlings Tags:Angel TrumpetbloomsBrugmansiabrugsSeedlings Read more
Thursday, November 19, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 6236 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating Anticipation.....an Angel Trumpet worth watching. This afternoon I spotted a cool new bloom on one of my Angel Trumpet seedlings. It was missing its tag so I'm not sure what its parentage is. Beside it were brugmansia seedlings from a cross between Masquerade and Shooting Star and seedlings from a cross between Naughty Nick and Cassies Curls. Right now I'm leaning towards the Naughty Nick cross. Anyways, it looks like it is going to be a keeper for sure. It just started coloring up when I took this picture so I'm anxious to see what it ... Categories:BrugmansiaSeedlings Tags:Angel TrumpetbloomsBrugmansiabrugsSeedlings Read more
Friday, November 13, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 6668 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating A jungle of Angel Trumpets A couple of readers have asked where all my Angel Trumpet blooms come from so I decided to post a few photos of my primary growing areas. Today's photos are from what I call my brug jungle. This is an area where I tie the largest brugmansia seedlings to rows of rope to help keep them upright. The seedlings are in 3-4 gallon size pots and have to be at least 6 feet tall to earn their place in one of these rows. This photo shows older seedlings carried over from 2008. Many suffered damage ... Categories:HybridizingBrugmansiaSeedlings Tags:Angel TrumpetBrugmansiabrugsSeedlings Read more
Friday, November 13, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 4999 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating Field of Angel Trumpets Following up on yesterday's post showing pictures of my staked brugmansia growing area, here is a photo of a portion of my open growing area. The Angel Trumpet plants on the left side are in one gallon pots, and the ones on the right are in 2-4 gallon sized pots. The one gallon pots are placed pot to pot and average 4-5 feet tall. I would guess that this photo shows about 1/3 of my open growing area. Categories:BrugmansiaSeedlings Tags:Angel TrumpetBrugmansiabrugsSeedlings Read more
Sunday, November 8, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 6980 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating An Angel Trumpet sunrise This Angel Trumpet bloom shines above rest during today's early morning sunrise. It is a seedling from a cross between brugmansia Mon Amour de Mareuil x Shooting Star. The blooms on this seedling are very fragrant and long lasting but so far the color has not intensified past a light apricot color. I recently crossed it back to several deep orange cultivars in hopes of injecting more color into this cross. Categories:BrugmansiaSeedlings Tags:Angel TrumpetbloomsBrugmansiabrugsMon Amour de MareuilSeedlingsSHOOTING STAR Read more
Saturday, November 7, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 6416 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating Jazzing up an Angel Trumpet Today's featured Angel Trumpet seedling is from a cross between Brugmansia Jazzy x Naughty Nick. This is the second seedling from this cross to bloom for me this summer. I featured the first seedling in late September and if you compare the two sets of blooms, they are look similar. The main difference between the two seedlings is that this one has more of a caramel color and the other seedling had salmon colored blooms.There are a bunch more seedlings from this cross to bloom and I'm ... Categories:BrugmansiaSeedlings Tags:Angel TrumpetbloomsBrugmansiabrugsjazzynaughty nickSeedlings Read more
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 / Author: Sommer Gardens / Number of views: 6669 / Comments: / Article rating: No rating Unexpected results from this Angel Trumpet cross Last year I made a bunch of crosses involving Brugmansia Axel Rose in hopes that its variegation would be passed on either by genes or by a sport on a new seedling. The last thing I expected was to find a seedling with blooms as bright as these. Pictured below are blooms from a cross between brugmansia Mountain Treasure and Axel Rose. The actual color was what I would call a cantaloupe orange and is much more intense than what is shown in this picture. The blooms are also quite large ... Categories:BrugmansiaSeedlings Tags:Angel Trumpetaxel rosebloomsBrugmansiabrugsmountain TreasureSeedlings Read more