Description
The plain- or patterned -leaved European species has bright blue flowers early in Spring. Our stock however consists of mature (flowering-sized) raisings from a Japanese breeder who breeds coloured, double forms.
He selects out the doubles at their first flowering leaving these singles. However they can be expected to contain a full range of colours from various pale to dark blue shades through to white, pale and dark pink, reds and purples.
In addition there will also be some bicoloured and “graduated” forms and given the genetic makeup of the stock there will almost certainly be multi-petalled forms and perhaps even some slow-to-show doubles. We are however trying not to over stress the doubles as there won’t be many, if any, and any remaining doubles may not manifest for a year or two (they need to be established to show characters like this fully). The singles will also carry potential for doubling in their seedlings.
They are totally mixed, so we can’t guarantee shade or flower form and they are offered as single flowered plants. However they are from a top breeder and we do promise that they won’t be plain old European blue! Light shade, lime to slightly acid soil, an easily pleased plant.
