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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, June 23, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

An Angel Trumpet so bright you need sunglasses to view it

This Angel Trumpet seedling has some of the brightest yellow blooms I have encountered.  The seedling is from a cross I made between Brugmansia Sommerzauber and Cassies Curls.

sommerzauberxcassiescurls2.jpgThis seedling closely resembles another seedling from this same cross I featured this spring.  Brugmansia Sommerzauber is a Monika Gottschalk introduction that often produces golden color blooms under the right growing conditions.  Cassies Curls was introduced by Park Seed and has deep golden yellow blooms with cute corolla teeth.

sommerzauberxcassiescurls2-2.jpgI still have a bunch of seedlings from this cross yet to bloom and I have my fingers crossed that one will be a beautiful yellow double.  A bright yellow version of Brugmansia Sommerzauber would be perfect!

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