✂ Cut Flower🏆 Exhibition★ Award Winner
David Howard
The variety garden designers have been copying for sixty years.
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Warm apricot blooms rise above near-black foliage that stops people in their tracks. The contrast is the whole point: two extreme colors on one plant, working together. Sixty years in and it still earns a second look.
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Physical
- Form
- Formal Decorative
- Bloom class
- BB4–6"
- Bloom size
- 4–6"(10.2–15.2 cm)
- Plant height
- 35–47"
Color
- Color
- Orange
- Pattern
- Solid
- Tags
- apricotamberpumpkinbronzewarm-orange
Growing context
- Flowering season
- Mid season
- Cut flower
- ✓ Yes
- Exhibition
- ✓ Yes
- Stem length
- 24"
Provenance
- 1960
- United Kingdom
- Breeder
- David Howard
Awards & Recognition
- ★RHS Award of Garden Merit
How to Grow It
Plant in full sun after frost risk passes. Pinch the central stem early to push side branching. Feed with a low-nitrogen fertiliser once buds form. Cut stems when blooms are three-quarters open and recut underwater. Lift tubers after the first frost and store dry over winter.