PAUL WEBER
26in, Mid season, 9in, NOCT, DOR, Fr, CRISPATA
- UF, 2 to 3 way branching, ca 18 - 20 buds per scape produced over three
to four week period.
Perhaps one of my best introductions. Chosen by
world renown plantsmen Roger Grounds and Diana Grenfell to be featured in
their new garden, this CRISPATA is one of my earliest but is particularly
special in that it completely covers the clumps with flowers, the foliage
disappearing under a cloud of very distinctive exotic form flowers!
With the 2 wide-sweeping branched scapes carry
the huge flowers (ca 18 - 19 cm) pale yellow, flat-open flowers to perfection.
The form: strap-segmented near Spider Variant with regularly pinched tepal
tips, creating a flat-open star-like blossom. Stable crispation pattern.
After cool evenings, a salmon-pink blush halo appears in the throat of the
flower. Hard DOR, going dormant in Mid to Late September, hardy to at least
-14F (-25C). Excellent increase once established.
Scapes ca 70 cm, NOCT. (RIGMAROLE X Burn's KINDLY
LIGHT Clone). Stunning in a clump! Named after the late PAUL WEBER, husband
of the noted British Exotic Form and Spider collector Cathy Weber. Sells
out quickly. A superb addition to the summer border, excellent with Miscanthus
sins. 'Hinjo' and Bromus 'Skinner's Gold' in keeping with the soft yellow
palette.