Description
‘Pencrebar’
4Y-Y
[Double 10]
(natural hybrid/sport found in Cornwall by H.G. Hawker pre-1929)
The early history of this delightful, dwarf Jonquil is not known. It was discovered in the garden of the eponymous manor house near Callington in east Cornwall by Captain Hawker, co-owner of the Plymouth Gin distillery. With us, the flower is more consistently fully double than its taller colleague, N. × odorus ‘Plenus’, but, like ‘Eystettensis’, it seems to flower better after a warm, dry summer (let’s say 1.9 m of annual rainfall rather than the usual 2.2 m, and the mercury soaring to 23 °C!). ‘Pencrebar’ is a petite ball of rich golden yellow – the perianth petaloids tend to be broader and more rounded than in Double Campernelle – with a smattering of much shorter orange-saffron coronal petaloids.
