Nerine 'Lady Havelock-Allen'
3rd November 2012
The sort of colour that seems to work in a greenhouse, but you wouldn't paint a bathroom.
It isn't quite scarlet or orange, the purity of colour is softened by some salmony flavours
(the sort of salmon seen emerging from a white sauce). Violet shadows haunt the petals in a
Scooby-doo way.
John Gallagher said in his notes in 1965:
"Vermillion bluish tinge 17/2, 17/1. Base colour scarlet HCC 19/1 with bluish sheen striped 17/1 Mandarin red. Narrow petals thin and pointed. Style slightly mauve. Stem weak.
Spathe valves crimson. Stem olive green very glossy. Seven flowers some glitter. Old variety of no value in a modern collection."
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