Description
‘Beersheba’
1W-W(b)
[Trumpet]
(Engleheart, G.H., pre-1923)
In his Handbook (1934), Bowles describes this “Connoisseur’s variety” [Amateur Gardening (1929)] as of “… great size and glittering whiteness. … The trumpet is curiously narrow at the base, and widens gradually to the open mouth in a curve that recalls the outline of a Convolvulus flower.” Here the trumpet is suffused primrose on opening, passing to ivory-white. The perianth segments tend to recurve, contributing a jaunty air to “The high-water mark in white trumpets” (The Garden, 1924).
