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£2.25
Currently Unavailable
Hybridiser: Welch, Charles, (UK)
Year Introduced: 2003
Height 60cm
Spread 60cm

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Bright Basket Easy Pale Purple Single Standard Sun

Incredibly beautiful, free flowering, self branching, naturally bushy. Prefers full sun, makes good basket or standard. Tube and sepals almost white in shade.

Tube: Pale lavender pink 69C, faint stripes.

Sepals: Pale lavender 69B, 1/2 up, darker tips recurved.

Corolla: Reddish purple 64B, matures dark rose 64C, smooth, overlapping petals.

Parentage: Atlantic Crossing x Bill Welch.

AFS 5156

Ffion- No. 5156 (Welch, 2003)

Single. Trailer

COROLLA: quarter flared; opens reddish purple (64B); matures dark rose (64C); 25mm (1") long x 20mm (13/16") wide

SEPALS: half up; tips recurved up; pale lavender (69B) upper & lower surfaces; 43mm(1 11/16") long x 12mm (1/2") wide

TUBE: pale lavender (69C); medium length & thickness; 20mm (13/16") long x 8mm (5/16") wide

STAMENS: extend 15mm (9/16") below corolla; rose (63C) filaments, pale lavender (69C) anthers

PISTIL: extends 28mm (1 1/8") below the corolla, rose (63C) style; orangish white (159C) stigma

BUD: pointed

FOLIAGE: dark green (137A) upper surface; medium green (138B) lower surface

Leaves are 50mm (2") long x 30mm (1 1/16") wide, ovate shaped, serrulated edges, rounded tips and rounded bases

Veins & stems are dark reddish purple (64A); branches are light grayish red (182C)

PARENTAGE: Atlantic Crossing x Bill Welch

Natural trailer

Makes good basket or standard

Prefers full sun

Cold weather hardy to 34°F

Best bloom color in bright light

Tested 3 years in Walthamstow, Carbrooke, Norfolk, England

Distinguished by bloom shape and color.

Flower Size
Medium (3 - 4.5cm) #
Flower Type
Single #
Habit
Semi Trailing #
Hardiness
H2 (Min 1°C to 5°C) #