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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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After a nearly five year hiatus, Fred's Garden Blog is back! Now you can enjoy and experience the gardening exploits and adventures of Fred in his quest to hybridize brugmansia and keep his jungle and nursery under control.

Sommer Gardens / Friday, October 16, 2009 / Categories: Brugmansia, Seedlings

Two oranges make salmon in the world of Angel Trumpets

What color bloom would you expect from a brugmansia cross with Shooting Star and Naughty Nick, a salmon one of course!  You would think crossing two oranges together you would end up with orange kids.  That's not the way it works though in the world of brugs. The nicely formed blooms on this seedling start out a light pink and then turn salmon.

shootingstarxnaughtynick.jpgI remember Naughty Nick being a cross between Creamsickle and Rosamond, and Rosamond has Rothkirch as it's mother.  Shooting Star has an unknown father but if i was betting man I would say the salmon genes came from Naughty Nick.

shootingstarxnaughtynick-2.jpgI'll let this one hang for a while.  Hard to toss them when they look this good.

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