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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, April 14, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia

Brugmansia Angels Endless Summer

Brugmansia Angels Endless Summer is a hybrid Angel Trumpet from German Hybridizer Anne Kirchner-Abel. It is currently showing off its second flush of blooms for this season.

angelsendlesssummer.jpgI have a bunch of Anne Kirchner-Abel hybrids in my collection and most are also being used in my hybridizing program.  Her cultivars all seem to thrive here in Florida so the genes are a great addition to our existing gene pool..

angelsendlesssummer2.jpgThe blooms age to a nice orange and if you look closely you can even see a tinge of pink in the lower skirts.  One of the recent blooms piqued my interest because a quarter of it was pink as you can see below.  I have not seen that in a bloom before. 

angelsendlesssummer-pink2.jpg
I wish I knew the parentage of the cross so I could research where the pink came from.  Unfortunately Anne Kirchner-Abel does not publish the parentage of her crosses so it will forever remain a mystery.

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