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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 / Monday, February 21, 2011 / Categories: Brugmansia

Variegated Brugmansia 'Grazie'

During the past couple of years I have accumulated a broad selection of variegated Angel Trumpets.  Brugmansia 'Grazie' was a new addition to my collection last summer and now it is starting to take off.    

grazie-bloom 2.jpgAlthough in the photo below, Grazie's foliage appears to have a slight resemblance to Maya, but when you put the two together you will see that Grazie's variegation is actually quite unique.

grazie plant.jpgGrazie was introduced by Monika Gottschalk, who discovered is as a variegated offshoot of Kurpark Bad Salzschlirf (KBS).  As you can see the blooms strongly resemble those of KBS.

grazie-bloom.jpgI hope to be able to collect some Grazie pollen as these blooms mature.  I would like to pollinate Brugmansia 'Freckles', who happens to have KBS as a pod parent, with Grazie.

I only have two variegated brugmansias that have yet to bloom this spring, and they are the ones I'm looking forward to seeing bloom the most. One is 'Wupperstolz', a beautiful double pink, and the other is variegated Angel's Flight, with double gold/orange blooms.  

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