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Mutant in paradise...

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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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.

Sommer Gardens / Friday, November 13, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

An Angel Trumpet on steroids emerges...

Here's an unknown Angel Trumpet seedling from a brugmansia cross with Jazzy as the pod parent.  It has turned out to be quite the plant monster, almost as if it was on plant steroids.  For starters it is a 6 foot tall, multi-trunk plant growing in a one gallon pot that has rooted itself in the ground.  This is at least 2-3 times larger than other seedlings from the same cross. The blooms are also giants averaging 11-12 inches across.  They are thick textured, fragrant, and have a rather unusual form similar to that of Jazzy. The one big difference between this bloom and those of Jazzy's is that this seedling's blooms are double in size. This one plant must have a dozen blooms open now with an equal number of buds forming.

jazzyxunknown-3.jpgI broke down and pollinated several of the blooms last night...it was sort of hard to overlook the possibilities.    

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