The hybridizer was a friend who lived in the same state, so this plant is special in my garden, because It was one of her early registrations and I got from her when it first came out, loving that each tiny bloom is a perfect example of the pinched crispate form. After Pat died, our mutual friend, Janice Kennedy ( who also lives in northern VA) , has taken over Pat's hybridizing program.
Some may find this interesting. Pat Cochenour, the hybridizer, lived in Reston, VA, and rented a city lot across town to do her hybridizing. She would go there in the morning to make her crosses. When I first got this from her, it took me a few weeks to make a discovery: I live head blooms every evening so that my AHS Display Garden will be fresh for visitors and photography the next morning. After a couple of weeks, I began to look more closely, and realized that when I was pulling blooms off LLT, , SOME were freshly opened blooms and some were wilting. In other words, this plant is NOCTURNAL!!! Pat had not registered it this way because she only saw her plants in the morning and didn't realize it. She was too ill when I mentioned this question of nocturnal blooming to her, so the registration data was not amended until after her death. Janice grew the plant and agreed that it was nocturnal, I recall we had a phone conversation about this the summer after Pat died. So if you take live blooms in the evening, be very careful because the new blooms will already be open. For a couple of weeks, I accidentally pulled off ALL the blooms,!
