Hybridizer: | Keith Keppel |
Year Of Registration: | 2011 |
Year Of Introduction (May Differ From Registry): | 2012 |
Seedling Number: | 05-78B |
Classification: | Tall Bearded (TB) |
Registered Height: | 36 inches (91 cm) |
Bloom Season: | Mid |
Flower Form: | Bubble Ruffled |
Bloom Color Classification: | Copper/Brown White Wine Yellow |
Flower Patterns: | Luminata |
Bloom Color Description: | Aureolin standards, central area flushed cedarwood; zanzibar red falls, narrow aureolin edge and white heart and dart below beard, heart edged bright golden lemon |
Beard Color: | White, tipped golden lemon |
Style Arm Color: | Aureolin, slight cedarwood flush |
Awards: | Honorable Mention: 2014 Award of Merit: 2016 John C. Wister Medal: 2021 |
Life cycle: | Perennial |
Sun Requirements: | Full Sun to Partial Shade |
Soil pH Preferences: | Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5) Neutral (6.6 – 7.3) Slightly alkaline (7.4 – 7.8) |
Minimum cold hardiness: | Zone 3 -40 °C (-40 °F) to -37.2 °C (-35) |
Maximum recommended zone: | Zone 9b |
Flowers: | Showy |
Underground structures: | Rhizome |
Propagation: Seeds: | Will not come true from seed |
Propagation: Other methods: | Division |
Ploidy: | Tetraploid |
Parentage: | Montmartre X Lip Service |
Child plants: | 11 child plants |
LynNY | On May 30, 2023 | Bloomed |
Australis | From October 16, 2022 to November 8, 2022 | Bloomed First flowering since 2017. It had vastly improved since being planted in the new garden bed and produced a heavily branched stem with 6 sockets; 14 blooms total. 3 blooms were malformed. |
Australis | On December 11, 2021 | Transplanted Transplanted to the garden bed at our new house. |
Australis | On February 21, 2021 | Potted up It was declining in the garden bed, so I moved it to a self-watering pot. |
Australis | On November 10, 2018 | Transplanted |
Australis | From October 19, 2017 to October 27, 2017 | Bloomed |
Australis | On January 12, 2017 | Potted up |
Australis | On January 9, 2017 | Obtained plant Ordered from Tempo Two. |
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