Another one of my Iochromas that is blooming now is Iochroma Wine Red.  Looking at the photo you can certainly see where the name came from.  :)Iochromas are very easy to grow here in Central Florida, thriving in partial shade to full sun. A hard freeze will take them to the ground, but they quickly rebound when spring rolls around.  They are almost an everbloomer, blooming on and off all year round.

Once I got hooked on growing Angel Trumpets it did not take long for me to also start collecting and growing their miniature cousins, Iochroma.  Here's a new cultivar I acquired this summer, Iochroma Royalty.There really has not been much hybridizing work done with Iochroma, so I was pleasantly surprised to find several new hybrid cultivars this summer. I was so impressed with them, this fall I decided to play around with hybridizing Iochroma.  I now have a bunch of seed pods growing out and ...

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