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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 / Tuesday, May 10, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Brugmansia 'Lizzy' x 'Orange Zest' produces a charmer

My real job in the event business has been keeping me super busy the past couple of weeks so I'm behind on recognizing many of the great seedlings that bloomed for the first time last month.  Here is an angel trumpet that I think will be worth watching as it matures.  This seedling is from a cross involving Brugmansia 'Lizzy' x 'Orange Zest'.

lizzyxorangezest2-1.jpgThe blooms are medium in size and held up well in the recent hot spell we had.  Even with my rather challenged sense of smell I could tell this seedling one had a nice fragrance.


lizzyxorangezest2-2.jpgBoth of its parents have a common father, 'The Chief'. Hopefully the one trait that did 'The Chief' in, its susceptibility to fungal problems, will not surface in this promising seedling.


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