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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, August 23, 2012 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

An Angel Trumpet to rival our summer sun

My previous post featured a seedling from a cross I made between Brugmansia Angels Goldface x Inca Sun. Here's an Angel Trumpet seedling I'm watching from a reverse of that same cross.  This is just one of several seedlings in my watch zone from a cross I made between Brugmansia Inca Sun x Angels Goldface.

incasunxangelsgoldface13-3.jpgThe bloom color starts out a deep yellow and ages to a rich orange. The blooms are similar in size to those of it's mother, Inca Sun.  I like the distinct trumpet shape of the bloom and the short curly corolla teeth.


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This seedling has had several mini-flushes of blooms and it really is an attention grabber when you see a cluster of the bright orange blooms.  I plan to keep this seedling in my watch zone and carry it forward to 2013.
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