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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 Brautwalzer returns from a near death experience

Brugmansia Brautwalzer, a Monica Gottschalk creation, is an elegant multi-skirt skirt white with thick textured blooms and beautiful corolla teeth. 

brautwalzer.jpgThis Angel Trumpet nearly died last summer when I recycled some used potting soil to top off the soil levels on some of my larger plants.  A fungus developed at the soil level, girdling the trunk and causing the upper portion of the plant to begin a slow death.  I cut the main plant off about six inches above the visible damage and then cut the stalk into several chunks for rooting.  I soaked them in a fungicide solution for an hour and then proceeded to root them.  I was surprised that most survived and rooted.  Now the survivors are rewarding me with blooms.

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Thick textured blooms typically hold up better in our summer heat.  That is why I was anxious to bring this cultivar into my hybridizing program.  So far I have one seed pod forming and I hope I can get a couple more to set before our summer heat makes setting pods nearly impossible.
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