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Mutant in paradise... Mutant in paradise...

Mutant in paradise...

Last season I ramped up my brugmansia hybridizing efforts using brugmansias with mutant and deeply serrated foliage.  The results of those...
Just what I need, another garden vice... Just what I need, another garden vice...

Just what I need, another garden vice...

Just what I need on my already overflowing plate, another garden vice! I'm totally swamped with my brugmansia hybridizing program  yet I...
An elegant brugmansia seedling earns keeper status An elegant brugmansia seedling earns keeper status

An elegant brugmansia seedling earns keeper status

I've been watching this brugmansia seedling perform for several years now and decided it was time to make it a keeper!
Looking back into the past.... Looking back into the past....

Looking back into the past....

It is hard to imagine that it has been nearly 5 years since I was actively posting to my garden blog. Today is the start of a new era as I commit to...
Introducing Brugmansia 'Audrey Lea' Introducing Brugmansia 'Audrey Lea'

Introducing Brugmansia 'Audrey Lea'

Brugmansia 'Audrey Lea' is a recent Sommer Gardens introduction with nearly red double blooms.  When you see the photo album below...

Fred's Garden Blog

After a nearly five year hiatus, Fred's Garden Blog is back! Now you can enjoy and experience the gardening exploits and adventures of Fred in his quest to hybridize brugmansia and keep his jungle and nursery under control.

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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.
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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.  :)
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
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