Cindy, your Linda Beck is looking great!
I think it is possible we have the same cultivar, perhaps just in different stages of development and settling in. You know how some doubles start out singling, and colors change over the course of a scape or two (or three) ... even scape heights and number of buds can vary a lot to start, and depending on weather. This is a fan (given to me by a most generous and dear soul) that is newly planted in my near-complete-shade garden, and the photo is its very first scape, with first-ever flower open. I do see a faintly lighter eye (clicking on the photo to see enlargement may help) and the emergent edging, which in California (Betty has spoken eloquently about this difference) can sometimes be non-existent even in mature cultivars where other climates enjoy full sets of teeth.
Thanks, Frillylily, for the link to Linda Beck in the ATP Database! You can see quite a range of color shades there.
Here's a photo of it for side-by-side comparison with another's bloom in the database, looking to me pretty close for an FFO, given the teeth challenges we have in California:
Our scapes here are showing up a full two months early this year without benefit of the warmer, sunnier days and nights of previous years, so they are struggling even to open unless they are somehow green-housed. But, I thought it would encourage others to go ahead and post their April blooms, even if they are not yet ready for front-page glossy layouts ... since we all get so much joy from them! And, I'll keep an eye on it, too, to see if it indeed turns out to be a cultivar that I've somehow mis-labeled. But, the first bloom of spring will always be a memorable one, and of the five fans that have tried to bloom here this month, it came truest to looking like it will be ready to rebloom with more vigor, and more likeness, once the weather turns more summery.
