MOONLIT SUMMERBIRD
A very delicate-looking, widely-branched CRISPATA
form that changes from a soft lemon to an ivory lemon during the day. Superb
plant in every aspect. Good increase and growth once established, blooming,
s most of my diploid UF's do, in their second year. Palest lemon-yellow
turning ivory in sun, leaving a lemon-ivory blush in the throat like ASTERISK,
once of its parents. A superb scaffolding of candelabra-form branches serves
to place flower all over the clump. A superb display of flowers is created,
each gently twisting and dancing to its own music.
Completely hardy. Fragrant, nocturnally-opening
an blooming at Mid-Midlate season, this seedlings blend superbly with other
Exotic Forms (UF) in the border. Blooming in Mid Season, it has put up rebloom
scapes for us here but a little too late to develop before the winter. An
easy to moderately easy pod parent. The form is a very open in the heart,
flat open from the perianth tube and with lance-shaped tepals that twist
gently, making it a Moderate Crispata. When heat increases, the flower segments
twist more.
Rave reviews from England!
This one is one of my personal favourites and
I'll try to explain. It doesn't have a pronounced crispate expression, nor
a stunning colour, but its softness, the shape of the flowers with the shape
of the leaves, the branching and flower placement, the soft fragrance, the
changing of the colour to near ivory on hot days, the flat-open face and
the not-too-tall 26 inches with nearly 6 inch flowers, well, they make me
brew a cup of tea and pull up a chair and enjoy.
