Description
This has leaves in big whorls of a very healthy looking dark, dull green.
The flowers are large, of deep pink to purplish pink and up to 5 cm across. These are very pleasantly scented. The tall flower spikes on tall stems can total 150 cm here when well established (and I have seen as much as 240cm suggested, for cultivated plants). Likes a cool, moist soil and lots of leaf mould.
Published by Mischenko in 1928 (Fl. Kavkaza, 1: 218, 1928) this subspecies is found around the n.e. coast of the Black Sea in Abkhazia in Oak and Beech woods.
Stock raised from material originally collected by Dr G. I. Rodionenko in the Trans-Caucasus, growing in partial shade, in deciduous woods, 1972 and obtained by us (and grown here since) from the late Michael Hoog of Haarlem, Netherlands in the early 1980s.
