Description
‘Grandiflorus’
9W-GYR
[Poeticus 9]
(introduced by Barr & Sugden c.1873)
It opens neatly enough: a late, modest flower with strongly reflexing, slightly overlapping perianth segments, and a small corona, scarcely the depth of a saucer. The colouring of the developing flower suggests it might be a dishevelled ancestor of ‘Caedmon’. The obscurely scalloped and minutely ruffled, fine wire rim of rust-red develops a minute, broken inner border of orange, which blends with the rich lemony gold along the handful of regularly spaced pleats. The rust-red fades to rich salmon-/coral-pink; the eye remains shaded a dull olive-green. As the flower develops, the margins of the pure white perianth segments strongly recurve, becoming long, slender and spathulate. Faintly sweetly scented. Tall, with wonderful poise.
