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Last season I ramped up my brugmansia hybridizing efforts using brugmansias with mutant and deeply serrated foliage.  The results of those...

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Sommer Gardens / Monday, November 30, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

A German Angel Trumpet seedling that loves to bloom

Today's features Angel Trumpet seedling is one I have been growing for a couple of years now.  It is a cross between brugmansia Color Point x Angel's Flight, both from Germany.  The blooms are large and plentiful and the plant is a vigorous grower. It has a very strong resemblance to its mother, Color Point.

colorpointxangelsflight-2.jpgI have used this Angel Trumpet seedling in dozens and dozens of crosses since last year, both as a pod parent and as a father.  I'm hoping a few of the Angel's Flight genes have been passed on to the new seedlings.  Several seedlings from my CP x AF crosses should bloom this winter. 

colorpointxangelsflight.jpgAs you can see by this picture, it blooms with clusters of large pendant blooms making it an ideal candidate for a "standard".  

Because this seedling has performed so well for me here in Florida, I plan to name and register it soon.Reblog this post [with Zemanta]
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