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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 / Sunday, December 11, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Brugmansia Daydreams x Ludger's Windsong revisited

Now that our nights have cooled most of my Angel Trumpets have switched into bloom mode.  One that has certainly raised the bar in my hybridizing program is this Brugmansia Daydreams x Ludger's Windsong seedling.

daydreamsxludgerswindsong-14.jpgIt is now in its second year of trialing and it just keeps getting better and better.  It survived our hot and steamy Florida Summer without a problem and it is especially loving our current weather.

daydreamsxludgerswindsong-11.jpgIn warmer weather the blooms stay lemon yellow but when the weather cools they slowly mature to a cantaloupe orange.

daydreamsxludgerswindsong-10.jpg I plan to officially name and register this Brugmansia seedling with the International Brugmansia & Datura Society in early 2012 and then make it available at SommerGardens.com later that same year.

daydreamsxludgerswindsong-12.jpgWhenever I encounter a promising new seedling like this one I always put hybridizing ahead of propagating. I recently made a bunch of crosses with this seedling and it looks like they are going to take.  Once I harvest the seed pods in spring I'll quickly place this beaut into production mode.

daydreamsxludgerswindsong-13.jpgThis is just one of several nice multi-skirted yellow/orange Brugmansia cultivars that I will be introducing in 2012. 





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