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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 / Thursday, November 10, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

A jumbo-sized Angel Trumpet with unknown parentage

I have a bunch of new double pink seedlings in bloom right now and this one has the largest blooms of all of them.

unknowndoublepink.jpgUnfortunately it is missing a tag so the parentage is unknown.  I hate when that happens to a promising seedling.  Even though the parentage may be unknown, if I think the seedling has promise, I will still carry it forward and decide later if it is worthy of naming and registering, or using it in my breeding program.

unknowndoublepink-2.jpgI believe the blooms on this seedling are larger than those of any existing double pink cultivar I have in my collection, and I have lots.  The long corolla tube is what really makes these blooms stand out from the other double pinks I'm growing.

unknowndoublepink-3.jpgSo far the blooms have stayed a medium pink and have all been perfect in form.  I plan to carry this one forward in my watch zone and then decide what to do with it next year.



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