This is one great garden plant. First year in my garden, it exceeded all my expectations. Averaged 10 branches and 30+ buds and bloomed from 7/3 to 8/20. No need to deadhead, spent blooms curl up neatly and don't interfere with new blooms. Tall, strong scapes that held up on my 45% slope. From a hybridizer viewpoint, it aborted all bee pods I allowed to form, long before they could mature. I've collected and frozen pollen, we shall see how that works next spring. Regardless of fertility, this one is a keeper for its great plant habits.

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The stats for this plant are not exaggerated. In my zone 5 the branching and bud count really are as good as registered. On top of that the blooms are pretty much self deadheading.

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