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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, October 28, 2010 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Angel Trumpet Lizzy puts on a show

Brugmansia Lizzy is one great brug!  It blooms more than any double/triple brugmansia I have in my collection...and I have lots.  Here are a couple of photos I shot last night.  Despite having 3 consecutive days of record setting high temperatures, the blooms still look fresh.

lizzy1010.jpgLizzy is an Angel Trumpet that I grew from seed and registered last year. It came from a Liz Fichtl cross involving Brugmansia Rubirosa x The Chief.  The plant is a vigorous grower and has stayed pest free.  I hope to use Lizzy extensively in my fall breeding program.  It was not a big pollen producer last fall, so most of the crosses I made involved Lizzy as the pod parent.  Unfortunately I lost most of those pods in last year's freeze.  I do have a few second generation seedlings growing now and I may see blooms on a couple of them before the end of the year.
lizzy1010-2.jpgAfter taking the pictures I sliced the blooms open and found some nice pollen.  I gathered all the pollen I could so now I'll be able to make the crosses I want when the weather cools back down.  I did not expend the time or energy to dust any of these blooms with pollen because of the current hot spell we are under.

I really want to see a clone of this bloom in yellow!
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