Aube Sanguine x El Dorado seedlng

Further  to my last post about this seedling, it has since flowered and continues to produce more pods.
The shape seem a little more pronounced and even if it never gets registered it's a keeper!

Can you define the colour..Sarah S

Sarah S is from America by a hybridizer called J.T.Sessions who has created some beauties including Sarah S.

This Brugmansia has this amazing colour, and I can't seem to settle on one for it . Pink ? Orange? Salmon? Watermelon?  Not sure, but it's a very valued part of my collection and just happens to have a scent that keeps you coming back for repeat sniffs of an evening.  

So see for yourselves..what's the colour? Here's a pic of her in shade and in the sun.

  

Should of been composted..but glad I didn't

In a world where we are constantly told to declutter and throw things away if they don't give immediate results  . Here's a instance where the saying  patience is a virtue paid off, It's not a trait I'm good at. I've just had to learn to put the brakes on and give things a chance.  What I've learnt about Brugs over the years is that what a Brugmansia looks like in its first growing season doesn't necessarily mean that's the final outcome.

This Brugmansia is classed in what is termed the Cold Group variety , not that they can take the cold, no ,just a little more than the Warm group variety.  
They prefer cooler temperatures coming from the higher altitudes where they can be touched by frosts, plus they are not trumpet like but the corolla is tubed shape. They are not scented as the main source of pollination is by  Hummingbirds. So colour is the key with these plants, and here is my seedling of a cross of a Deep Red Sanguinea x Strybing Vulsa .

As I've said I've kept this plant in the hope that it would eventually flower, and  happily it did. Hope you like it as much as we do. 

An introduction to a very special lady!

Behind every brug I own is a story of whom, what and where it was from. 

So let me introduce you to Miss Edith Winnette or M.E.W for short. She is named after the mother of my buddy across the pond in Pennsylvania, US of A , Dan Carter. Wizard Hybridizer  extraordinaire and top fella to boot.  

M.E.W is a result of a cross between a classic yellow El Dorado and a classic pink Archangel , both share a horizontal blooming habit, and great scent, and who could miss those huge twangers.

And she is a stonker of a Brugmansia, and has it all ,poise, colour and scent. There have been many attempts to recreate a classic pink hybrid worthy of being called a Aurea even if it strictly isn't. But  even so, Dan has hit the jackpot with this one.  

It deserves to be more widely known, and I am in my small way trying to get her out there to be enjoyed and savoured. 

I cannot express how happy I am to have her growing in our back garden in South West London, after experiencing set backs of losing cuttings and rooted cuttings being lost by the U.S Postal system.  I now consider myself very fortunate.

There will be many pictures of M.E.W to come, as she is still to flare open and peel those tendrils back to show what a lady she really is.

Goff's Girl with a difference!

I've introduced my family member Goff Girl before, being named for my mother, and since her registration back in 2014 she blooms only as a single.

Until recently

Low and behold I saw that one particular bloom was looking different.
Brugmansias can and will sometime produce normally five points/tendrils, and occasionally on new plants 4, or on older flushes 6 to 7. One hybrid has Ten, and that's a story for another day. 

Or another reason is that they maybe a inner skirt of another set of tendrils,  making the Brugmansia a double or triple even.

It turns out that Goff's Girl has the capacity to be a double, or at least try, and I really don't mind as it just adds to her charm.   Long may she bloom, as she wants!

Update !!! Since my last blog, Goff's Girl has being blooming and this event was not a one off, as a new flower opened this afternoon with a inner corolla. 

I'm wondering what has brought about this change in biology after all these years. Was it age? Feed? Position in the garden? Temperature?  Will she ever produce a full inner corolla?

And to prove she can still produce single's

Archangel

Archangel is a classic aurea hybrid from Alice Harris , and it remains a favourite of mine throughout the years. It really stands out in the garden with its colour and here is that word again, poise! 

It's a brugmansia that just seems to get better as the season progresses , changing into a more compact shape. The scent is like baby talc, and the corolla has a waxiness that ensures the bloom lasts a little longer than others.

This won't be last picture of Archangel I post, that's a promise. 

Rosalie..Pretty in Pink!

This is Rosalie, a single pink bred by a lady called Herta Blin way back in the early nineties!

When I first became interested in Brugmansias, and specifically the Aurea species this one was on my hit list. She wasn't easy to find but my good friend Carol managed to source one from  Germany , and I've treasured and grown it every year since. 

It's got that almost arrogant but elegant poise, great colour and a set of very nice long tendrils, or twangers as they are known in certain Brugmansia circles. It's also blessed with a very strong almost almond/baby powder scent, that draws you back for repeated sniffs of an evening. 

For me it's a beautifully exotic hybrid, hope you like it too!