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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 / Saturday, December 4, 2010 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Orange Sunshine flirts with Pink Smitty

I finally was rewarded with some color from my cross of Brugmansia Orange Sunshine x Pink Smitty.  This new Angel Trumpet seedling has a striking resemblance to Brugmansia Jazzy.
  
orangesunshinexpinksmitty.jpgThis particular cross was one I decided to grow the entire seed pod out so I could see the diversity in a single cross.  Out of the 20 or so seedlings that have already bloomed, most have been white.  I have only kept one in my watch zone so far, a double light orange.  I think I'll carry this one over as well and perhaps cross it back to its double orange sibling.

orangesunshinexpinksmitty-2.jpgI know I have at least 30-40 more seedlings from this cross yet to bloom so maybe that gem still awaits me.


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