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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, April 30, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

This new Angel Trumpet seedling makes a spectacular debut.

With so many of my angel trumpet seedlings in bloom right now, a new bloom has to be quite spectacular to stand out from the rest.  Here's one that caught my attention from nearly 100 feet away.  It's an offspring from a cross of Brugmansia Angels Moonlight x Morgansonne.

angelsmoonlightxmorgansonne-2.jpgThe jumbo-sized blooms are striking and elegant. This bloom is showing a nice coloration on day one, and appears to be deepening as it matures.

angelsmoonlightxmorgansonne-4.jpgSeveral other seedlings from this cross have already bloomed, but this is the first one to show color.

angelsmoonlightxmorgansonne.jpg
As you can see below, it is not a shy bloomer and the plant is very healthy.

angelsmoonlightxmorgansonne-3.jpgI will be watching this one with great anticipation this summer. 

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