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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 / Friday, March 4, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia

Brugmansia Angel's Sweet Summer is ready for summer

Brugmansia Angel's Sweet Summer is gearing up for summer by blooming almost non-stop since our warm weather moved in last month.  This Angel Trumpet was introduced by Anne Kirchner-Abel and it thrives here in Florida, producing mass quantities of beautiful, rather plump, jumbo blooms.

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The foliage is a dark green and the plant is a vigorous grower.  In the warmer months the bloom color deepens to a very deep, dark pink. 

I have several seed pods forming with Angel's Sweet Summer as a parent, both as a pod parent and a pollen parent.  It will be interesting to see the outcome.  I would like to create a bloom like this in yellow or orange!

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