Description
The flowers of this clone are quite slender and have been likened to those of Atkinsii in general shape. However as the flower of David Baker matures its outer petals reflex outwards at their tips and flare open beautifully. They soon look nothing like Atkinsii, especially so as the outer petals are green tipped!
The inners have a nice strong green mark in the shape of a board inverted V, whilst the outers have a similarly shaped green mark at the tips of the petals also. This is however inclined to change as this clone is well-known for losing these outermost green marks after transplanting or disturbance and it needs at least one season’s growth before these return. Please don’t get in touch to complain, our stock is true and correct, the clone simply behaves this way, as you can see from our picture of a clump one year after transplanting. Do, please give it time to reveal its all to you.
It should also be noted that even on mature, established and vigorous plants, those which bear more than one flowering shoot from the same bulb (and associated offsets), will vary. The “primary” or largest flower can be well-marked, while the secondary flower will often be far less marked. If a third flower is borne from the associated shoots, then this will usually be smaller and may be totally lacking in the green, outer-petal, tip markings. This is simply how the plant is, in effect stressing the plant or it being stressed, causes a temporary loss of the green marks, which gradually return and strengthen when the plant is established again and less-stressed.
First noticed in the Bakers’ garden at Farnham in 1987 and named for David Baker in 1997
for UK sales ONLY
NOT available for export to E.U., Japan, Norway, Switzerland, U.S.A. etc. CITES plants are no longer shipped outside of the UK.