Char said: Yeah!!! Like Larry I'm not overly fond of the variegated blooms, but this one is really nice! Is Wacky Wednesday available over your way Sue? That could be a cool cross to try. I think....I have no idea what works when crossing variegated blooms. A few sdlgs will bloom this year from my first clueless tries.
Up to now I wasn't able to find Wacky Wednesday within the EU and I fear that it has not reached us before the import ban was in place. The same with Clown Pants
As far as I have heard the dips pass the trait much more often - in tets I have own experience but up to now only with Undefinable which seems to be a kind of special one in many respects.
This seedling out of Magic Amethyst x Undefinable is extremely northern hardy, every single flower is patternd but it opens only really good after very warm nights. Today we have a cool morning and it looks like this (all the other plants are perfectly open now - its 8.00 o'clock in the morning now):
Here is the peach sibling I mentioned - heavily striped parents (Rich Howard and a quite similar sibling, not mine):