I'm beginning to think this is a battle I'm never going to win.  The cats are back and they are hungry as hell.   Good grief, it was just a week or so ago that I resorted to chemical warfare to get them under control...or at least I thought I did.  I guess that's the price you pay when you have a yard full of blooming plants...

I'm beginning to think this is a battle I'm never going to win.  The cats are back and they are hungry as hell.

Every so often an Angel Trumpet has blooms whose color beckons you from far away.  This cross from brugmansia Rubirosa x (Peanut x Mt. Magic) was one of those.

An Angel Trumpet cross involving brugmansia Cassie's Curls almost always results in curly offspring.  The seedling pictured below has an unknown father but you can still see mom's curly tendril genes carried forward.  This particular seedling had about 10 blooms open in its first bloom cycle and the overall look was quite striking.I'm growing out lots of crosses involving Cassie's Curls and I'm expecting some exciting results this fall.  Stay tuned...

Every so often an Angel Trumpet has blooms whose color beckons you from far away.  This cross from brugmansia Rubirosa x (Peanut x Mt. Magic) was one of those. I must have had a dozen seedlings blooming in the same general area, but this one stood out from a hundred feet away.If it is this dark in the heat of summer, I wonder how intense the color will be when the weather cools?  This will be a watcher for sure.

Another new yellow Angel Trumpet that bloomed recently was from a cross between brugmansia Ludger's Windsong and Lady Liberty.

Here's a nicely formed pink Angel Trumpet that bloomed this summer.  It is a cross between brugmansia Rubirosa x Rachel.I plan to let this one grow for a while to see how it performs.

I knew I could not make my rounds tonight without running into some type of creature.  Tonight's find was a nice plump grasshopper eyeballing a hibiscus bud for his midnight snack...