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£2.25
Delivery from August
Hybridiser: Berkeley Horticultural Nurseries (US)
Year Introduced: 1935
Height 60cm
Spread 57cm

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Bedding BFS Hardy Double Exhibition Flared Hardy Pink Purple Standard Train Vintage

Bright, bold flowers of substance – wow, what a hardy! Free-flowering (two per axil) and reliable, upright and bushy. Good for exhibition as well as bedding, containers and training as standards, fans etc.

Has smaller flowers, shorter tube, and darker corolla colour than James Lye.

Tube: White with pink blush N155B, medium size, strongly grooved texture.

Sepals: White with pink blush 65B above, darker pink flush N57C below, green tip. Horizontal to 1/2 up, concave, strongly reflexed, may twist slightly. Thick, creped texture.

Corolla: Pink purple N74A to 72B, paler at petal base. Outer petals are much shorter than the four inner ones, and may also have an occasional splash of pink 64D, 3/4 flared. Most petals are incurved or softly pleated, with a rounded edge.

Parentage: Sport of Pink Pearl

NKvF 1389

Awards
Certificates & Nominations NKvF RC
Flower Size
Medium (3 - 4.5cm) #
Flower Type
Double #
Habit
Bush #
Hardiness
H4 (Min -10°C to -5°C) #