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£2.25
Delivery from August
Hybridiser: Bass, (UK)
Year Introduced: 1847
Height 120cm
Spread 120cm

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Bedding BFS Hardy Easy Exhibition Hardy Hedge Pre 1914 RHS AGM RHS AM RHS HC Single Vintage

Flowers freely and is very easy to grow, a great garden survivor, lovely. Looks good used as bedding or in containers.

Also ideal cultivar for fuchsia hedges with its strong upright growth habit.

Originally called General Tom Thumb, but renamed by HG Brown after Chillerton in the Isle of Wight. He found an old plant of General Tom Thumb growing there, but thought it best to rename it to avoid confusion with the quite different cultivar just called Tom Thumb. Nowadays, the original name would be considered the only valid one under taxonomic rules.

Tube: Pale rose pink.

Sepals: Pale pink, darker below, with recurved green tips. Held a little above horizontal.

Corolla: Mauve-violet with pink veins, and paler base, ageing to magenta, 1/2 flared.

NKvF 1350

Awards
NKvF Award of Merit RHS HC 1962, RHS AM 1978
RHS AGM RHS AGM
Other Awards RHS AM
Flower Size
Medium (3 - 4.5cm) #
Flower Type
Single #
Habit
Upright Bush #
Hardiness
H5 (Min -15°C to -10°C) #