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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 / Tuesday, November 1, 2011 / Categories: Seedlings

A nice Angel Trumpet, but not nice enough to avoid the chopping block.

The blooms on this new Angel Trumpet seedling have great form, but the color is rather drab.  The cross is Brugmansia Rubiline x (Creamsickle x Candida Pink).
rubilinexcreamsiclexcandidapink.jpgAlthough the color appears darker in this night shot, the blooms start out a cream color and turn more of a dull apricot/yellow as they mature.

rubilinexcreamsiclexcandidapink-2.jpgThe plant has been a vigorous grower with frequent flushes of blooms. I don't think this one is worthy of registering but it is too showy for me to just toss.  I think I may chop this one up next month and add the cuttings to the mix I plan to give away to members of iBrugs.

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