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A large and vigorous cultivar with good orange flowers. I bought it from Constantine Garden Nursery for the herbaceous border but it didn't thrive. Daffodils and More say: "The tallest, darkest orange, and longest blooming of the early flowering hybrids. Beginning shortly after ‘Commander-in-Chief’, its healthy production of secondary buds on the 36-40” floral shoots keeps the color coming through to the start of the creamy white varieties of Trollius. Large 3” wide globes; the lower petals (actually sepals) are very attractively fringed." Raised by the Prichards at Riverslea Nursery near Christchurch in Dorset. The nursery seems to have been founded in 1890 and ran until 1966. The nursery introduced several new plants and bred a number of Kabschia saxifrages as well as Tradescantia 'Iris Prichard' and Erica australis 'Riverslea'. Geranium x riversleanum 'Russell Prichard' references both the nursery and the family. |
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| 24th May 2019 | ||
