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    Aconitum carmichaelii 'Arendsii' is a rare flowering treat in September. This magnificent monkshood with its dense heads of deep blue flowers on stout 5ft stems makes a real statement at a time of the year when much else is fading in the garden. The foliage is glossy dark green and attractively cut and lobed, an asset in itself. (Sun or shade) CAUTION - ALL PARTS OF THIS PLANT ARE POISONOUS
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    Extremely handsome plant of great distinction with its deeply divided rich purple black leaves and tall waving wand of pink budded white flowers produced as late as Oct. Dark colour becomes more apparent on older plants. Best with moist soil. No need to stake. Immune to slugs

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    Actaea simplex 'Hillside Black Beauty' - Atropurpureum Group (Cimicifuga simplex var. simplex 'Hillside Black Beauty'). Autumn Snakeroot. Possibly the best selected black leaved form of an already extremely handsome plant. The deeply divided rich purple black leaves and tall waving wand of pink budded white flowers produced as late as Oct are very distinguished. Leaves fade to a dark brownish green by Autumn. Best with moist soil. No need to stake. Immune to slugs. Western China to Korea. 1.2m

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    Actaea simplex 'Pink Spike' ( Cimicifuga simplex var. simplex 'Pink Spike' ). Autumn Snakeroot. This variety comes with the exquisite black leaves of the Atropurpureum Group with cylindrical flower heads that have a pink tinge owing to the pink colour of the stamens.  The deeply divided rich purple black leaves and tall waving wands of pink budded white flowers produced as late as Oct are very distinguished. Best with moist soil. No need to stake. Immune to slugs. Western China to Korea. 1.2m

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    Not a big blousy primadonna, but nevertheless a useful plant full of its own charms. Useful as it is late flowering with compact heads of small white snowballs which are just full of nectar. The leaves are fresh apple green with stems that will colour up mahogany if the plant is in sun. Tones in well with other plants and a good clean colour for a white scheme. Equally at home in the border of wild garden. 100-150cm
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    This is a compact form growing just 35-40cm high with the deepest lavender-blue flowers of any Amsonia. It arose in a seedling batch of Amsonia tabernaemontana on a nursery in Connecticut and is thought to possibly be a hybrid with Amsonnia hubrechtii. It pays its way all year with neat shiny green leaves on a compact easy care plant, topped with flowers in June to July which emerge from long dark buds. It takes on lovely yellow Autumn colours in Autumn. Perfect as an edging plant. It does start off slowly but builds up stature year on year, rarely needing dividing. Good for butterflies and Deer resistant.
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    Anchusa azurea 'Dropmore' is a large perennial prized for its abundance of flowers of a bright gentian blue which only seem to intensify in Summer's evening light. The flowers are quite long lasting and loved by bees. The tallest of the Anchusas. Full sun, drought tolerant . The roots of all the Anchusas yield a resinoid colouring compound called alkanet-red or more properly anchusin
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    Anemone hupehensis var. japonica 'Rotkappchen' ('Little Red Riding Hood'). A really short variety which punches well above its weight. The cupped flowers are a rich dusky pinky-red with numerous narrow petals, intensifying the yellow of the anthers at the centre.  A variety of the Japanese form of Anemone hupehensis and part of a short series that also includes Cinderella and Pocahontas.
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    Anemone x hybrida 'Andrea Atkinson'. Pure white saucers with a central green button, ringed with egg yolk anthers. A beautiful site as the abundance of flowers dance in an Autumn breeze - an accent of purity amongst the fading colours of Autumn. One of the most vigorous of the Anemones, an improvement of Anemone 'Honorine Jobert'. 90cm, Late Summer.
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    Anemone x hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'. Pure white saucer flowers with golden centres on strong tall stems make this a gem for early Autumn. Grows in a wide range of soils; flowering best in sun providing it isn't too dry at the root. 150cm. Apt to spread. This must be a first rate variety, it was bred over 150 years ago in 1858 and it is still one of the most popular.
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    A real beauty with semi-double very large flowers of lovely shape and form. It is almost white suffused with soft rose-pink, becoming stronger flushed and edged on the reverse. Each flower has 12 individual petals which are arranged with great fineness, particularly beautiful when viewed from behind as the rich colouring is most apparent and you can best appreciate the way the petals curve and arch a bit like a waterlily. Tall and robust. Loreley was a Siren who sat on a granite outcrop near the town of St. Goarshausen in the Rhine Valley. From there she would lure passing sailors with her song. So bewitched they would ground their ship and perish 'neath the waters.
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    Potsize - 1L

    Angelica sylvestris 'Purpurea' . Starting remarkably early in  the year this plant pushes up fascinating glossy purple foliage, soon becoming an imposing architectural feature topped with a dense spherical head of pink flowers. In appearance not dissimilar to a more sturdy cow parsley, but with less air and more presence. Will seed about mildly. Likes a good moist spot.
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    Anthriscus sylvestris 'Ravenswing'. Near black foliage in a dense ferny mound rising to dainty umbels of tiny white flowers. A striking form of Queen Anne's Lace with great poise and grace. 100cm. Any soil. Great to add a little fluff to the middle of a perennial planting or as a specimen plant with plenty of space so you can appreciate the beautiful form.
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    Potsize - 9cm

    Aquilegia 'Yellow Star' (Star Series). An old cottage garden favourite and an excellent cut flower. Abundant display in late spring of long spurred two-toned lemon yellow flowers over fine blue-green foliage. Do not overcrowd the crown or allow other plants to flop over the foliage. 60cm. Full sun. HARMFUL IF EATEN
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  • Potsize - 9cm

    Aquilegia 'Denver Gold'  is a new version of an old cottage garden favourite granted a 'Plant Select' award for its robustness and an excellent cut flower. Abundant display in late spring of long spurred golden yellow flowers over fine blue-green foliage. Selected for its ability to rebloom after initial display providing it is dead headed with the possibility of blooms from May to September. Do not overcrowd the crown or allow other plants to flop over the foliage. 80cm. Full sun
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  • Potsize - 9cm

    Aquilegia vulgaris var. stellata 'Black Barlow' (Barlow Series). One of the spur-less Barlow series based around the plant originally found in the garden of Nora Barlow. This form has flowers that are a deep dusky maroon. Would look good in a mixed cottagey border, hanging above paler mounds of flowers. Best in light shade.    HARMFUL IF EATEN
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  • Potsize - 9cm

    A beautiful form of Aquilegia clematiflora with exquisitely shaped, completely spurless flowers reminiscent of its name-sake. The flowers are shaded green in bud and retain green tips when open pure white. The leaves are fresh apple-green and erupt as early as February making a lovely foil for Spring flowers. 60cm
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    A fitting name for this richly claret coloured, very double. Spurless Aquilegia. A tall elegant variety with strong stems. 60-90cm
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    One of the spur-less Barlow series based around the plant originally found in the garden of Nora Barlow. This form has flowers that are a fully double, white with green tips. Would look good in a mixed cottagey border, hanging above paler mounds of flowers. 80cm. May-July. Best in light shade. HARMFUL IF EATEN
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    Artemisia ludoviciana 'Silver Queen'. Creeping rootstock with upright stems of finely divided silver foliage and matching silver flowers. Beautiful compliment to pastel planting schemes. 2ft.Will tend to look untidy once in flower - simply trim to the ground for  fresh crop of foliage within no time. Compare with 'Valerie Finnis' which is similar, but with broader foliage
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    With millions of beautiful small 2.5cm single daisies in the most delightful shade of lilac which just keep coming and coming. Generally self-supporting forming a goblet shaped bush which remains well clothed with foliage which takes on a handsome burgundy tint in Autumn which is echoed in the tint the flower's central boss assumes with age. Particularly effective when the centres of the starry flowers are a multitude of shades from lemon yellow through amber flushed to ruby. August-October. 75cm

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    I've seen this plant described several times as a pale pink form of Aster 'Little Carlow', but is in fact a pink form of Aster laevis, a much larger plant. It shares the lovely dark stems of the species which beautifully accent the pale pink flowers which open from darker buds and gradually fade towards white. The centre conversely starts yellow and ages dark ruby red. Greener in the leaf than the species it is also a little smaller, growing to 1.5m. A relatively new cultivar from France, the name meaning 'The Monastery'. It is also known by the name Aster 'Vasterival'.
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    A striking autumn flowering Aster with branching heads producing a mass of very bright cerise scarlet daisies warm enough to cheer the dullest day in fact when in full bloom the flower colour is strident enough to deliver a firm slap around the chops. It is just the brightest of pinks but it goes so well with the warm tones of Autumn. I'm not sure who Alma Potschke was, but she was clearly well worth remembering ( 'Andenken an' means 'in memory of' similar to the French version 'Souvenir de' ) . Very easy to grow. Height 1.3m (4ft). Like all the novae-angliaes it produces a series of unbranched stems topped with a branching terminal head of flowers. I am very grateful to Heather Farquharson whose research has recently answered my query above. I couldn't better her writing so I hope she doesn't mind me quoting it uncut.  'There is a German nursery near Stuttgart, www.poetschke.de, and the owner who developed the plant called it after his mother.  I only hope he did not call it after her because of memories of her delivering firm slaps around the chops and the resulting rosy cheeks.   Let's hope he had happier memories of her.' Its not uncommon for customer asking for this plant to decide that 5 consonants in a row is just too much and suffer verbal apoplexy somewhere soon after the 'Andenken'. Sometimes, with a glorious British disregard for correctness we settle for 'Posh' or maybe something like 'Potsky'. Having consulted with a German friend I am told the good lady's name should be pronounced more like 'Purr - sh - k' with a soft final 'k'.
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    Aster 'Lye End Beauty' falls somewhere in-between 'Harrington's Pink' and 'Alma Potschke' in the colour stakes. The narrow petals are a rich, but not strident cerise on their inner surface and a silvery pink on the reverse. With a dark ruff of narrow bracts and rose tinted stems it was certainly well named. Like most novae-angliae types it is relatively tall with long straight stems which may need staking. Grow it well back in the border where it can hide away all summer, revealing its full glory in Autumn as those in front fade and are cut back. A chance seedling which occurred at Lye end in Woking in the 1950's along with several others that are named after the garden. 130-175cm
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    Potsize - 1L

    Blue False Indigo. Baptisia carries tall, straight open spikes of really blue pea flowers followed by decorative seed pods which dry well for Winter decoration. Whilst most of the species in this genus grow on sandy, dry woodland soils, Baptisia australis is a native of riverbanks. It enjoys drainage but likes moisture and a deep root. Best planted in a lime free soil in a place where it can be left undisturbed. It is slow starter and disappointing to start with, but give it time as once established it will gradually build over a number of years to a plant that can flower to 75cm tall and be quite showy and a real talking point.
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    Whilst the heart shaped leaves make good muted green ground cover, it is the flowers are remarkable. In shape and colour they are very like the heads of betony, if a little paler, but they are borne on short stalks and are of a large size quite out of proportion with expectations. A first rate plant for the front of the border. No where near as rampant as its cousin, Stachys lanata. Plant in sun for good flowering. 30cm
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    A real upright accent. Tall and narrow with variegated foliage and generous heads of feathery flowers.
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    Campanula lactiflora 'Prichard's Variety' is a strong coloured short growing milky bellflower. 50cm stems with large heads that branch and branch to create a dense head of starry cupped mauve flowers. Equally good in the border or naturalised in grass. Cuts well for the house. Milky Bellflower. Forms a compact, dense clump with stiff flowering stems. Cut back to the ground after flowering.
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    Campanula persicifolia 'Grandiflora'. Like a large version of a harebell Dense clumps of foliage and a succession  of sky blue bells. Height 80cm Excellent cut flower. Good on chalk
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    Campanula persicifolia 'Alba'. The large bells of this variety are a pure glistening white. A real elegant flower that associates well with greens and blues, lifting any scheme it is planted in. Height 80cm Excellent cut flower. Good on chalk. Can be grown in shade.
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    Cephalaria gigantea . Giant Yellow Scabious. A magnificent sight in early summer with its large mound of roughly hairy, pale green, deeply pinnatifid foliage and 6ft branching stems generously furnished with 3in pale lemon flowers which sway in the slightest breeze. You can use Cephalaria at the back of any scheme or alternatively further forward as the flowering stems are not dense, allowing you to see through to sights beyond.
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  • Potsize - 1L

    Clematis recta 'Purpurea'. Sophisticated herbaceous clematis whose 120 cm stems of purple foliage provide the perfect foil for the loose terminal panicles of starry white flowers. The foliage is a significant form in the early garden being both unusual and dark. The flowers are a lovely white cloud, similar to Old Man's Beard, perfect as an accompaniment to strong forms like pink roses. Makes a small densely packed matt. Best supported by a few twigs, which the leaves will cling to, as the stems will flop.
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    Japanese Angelica. Cryptotaenia japonica f. atropurpurea is a pretty delicate umbellifer with handsome purple foliage. In summer it sends up many fine purple stems carrying myriads of tiny purple flowers. For moisture. This is never going to be the star of the show, but every cast needs its supporting characters and cryptotaenia provides a lovely foil to set of other more showy divas.
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    The beautiful Bleeding Heart or Lady-in-the-Bath. Fresh green ferny foliage above which arch stems dripping pink & white flowers like dewdrops. A picture of poise and grace. 3ft in a nice moist soil. The fleshy roots are delving and brittle so its best not disturbed and best sited in a sheltered situation in sun or partial shade with plenty of humus. In hot situations where water might go short at the roots, the plant will take a period of Summer dormancy but will re-emerge the following Spring. Mulching helps to extend the flowering season. Great cut flower and surprisingly scented. Deer and Rabbit resistant, possibly on account of its yellow sap. You know a plant has been loved for years when it has numerous names. For this one try Bleeding Hearts or Ladies-in-the-Bath, Ladies-in-a-boat or Dutchman's Breeches or even Lady's Locket and Lyre Flower. The ladies-in-the-bath/boat reference is only apparent if you take an open flower, turn it upside down and pull the outer petals apart, then it becomes obvious.
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    Potsize - 9cm

    Digitalis lanata - (Cafe Creme) - Woolly Foxglove. One of the more unusual foxgloves, mabe not instantly recognisable as such. The flowers are carried in a typical foxglove spike, but instead of the usual hanging bells, each flower is very rounded, white with dense brown netting, a broad white lip and a glowing yellow inside. They are reminiscent of a column of curious, comical, gaping mouths. A reasonably perennial species. Light shade 60 cm  CAUTION- TOXIC IF EATEN
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    Digitalis parviflora 'Milk Chocolate'. Thin spikes, densely crowded with small bronze-red foxglove flowers make for a striking addition to any planting. 60 cm high, July to September. Similar to a smaller Digitalis ferruginea, but with paler and slightly less even leaf rosettes. For an unusual combination try it with Allium caeruleum.
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    Potsize - 9cm

    Digitalis purpurea 'Snow Thimble' Digitalis purpurea 'Snow Thimble' is the variety of foxglove you want if you are looking for pure refined elegance. The flower spikes are well formed with large hanging bells of pure white, spotted delicately chartreuse in the throat. To add to this the spire blends from green at the tip through palest lemon buds into the pure white fully opened bell. A plant of great distinction. Very good in woodland situations. CAUTION- TOXIC IF EATEN
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  • Potsize - 9cm

    Digitalis x mertonensis (Summer King) A hybrid between our native foxglove and the yellow perennial D.ambigua, Digitalis x mertonensis inherits the best of both parents. It benefits from D.ambigua's perennial nature whilst gaining colour and the shapely flower spikes of D.purpurea.  The whole plant is of a denser nature than D.purpurea with shorter, stouter spires of chunkier flowers in the most beguiling crushed strawberry pink, generously but subtly spotted within. Flowers in the early summer months. 90cm. It is a tetraploid, the cross first being made in 1926 at the John Innes Institute in Surrey. CAUTION- TOXIC IF EATEN
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    Disporopsis pernyi - Evergreen Solomon's Seal. A relative of the solomon's seal, this spreading perennial has dark green leaves and hanging flared bells that are said to have a lemon scent, but I get more of a nutmeg vibe. A graceful plant for shade. This plant is a long time in bud before the flowers open which is really rather pretty. 60cm
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    Something a bit different, recently introduced by Jelitto. The flowers open with petals of lime green, but as the flowers age a pink stain spreads from the centre to fill nearly to the petal tip, which have now mellowed to yellow. The flower form is like the all green 'Green Jade' in that the petals curve forwards to give the flower a slightly cupped shape. It brings to my mind a pink Gaillardia. 100cm
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    Echinacea purpurea 'Happy Star'. Deep green leafy clumps set off handsome large white daisies, the centre of each one a spiky green cone brightened with orange tips 80cm. Best in sun in a rich soil. A good cut flower. An improvement on 'White Swan' introduced by Jelitto
    Discount of 25p per plant for quantities of 3 or over Echinaceas are hardy as far a temperature goes and they are undoubtedly lovely. What is also not in doubt is that they die reliably in many people's gardens. At the root of this is the great British Winter climate. Echinaceas want moist roots and dry free flowing air, what we give them is a regular deluge followed by misty, muggy days. The consequence is fungal rots and a dead Coneflower. You can help by planting your Echinacea in an open situation where the breeze will keep the crown dryer, but the stark reality is that Echinacea are not reliable in everyone's gardens. As a consequence will only consider complaints about Echinacea within a month of purchase and certainly not following a Winter.

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    Vivid pink with a fully double, tight bun centre, surrounded by a horizontal rim of ray florets. The bun centre is accentuated by a darker eye. The flowers start quite flat with a little frilly centre and just get fuller and fuller and fuller as time goes on until they are finally like a pom-pom. Echinaceas are hardy as far as temperature goes and they are undoubtedly lovely. What is also not in doubt is that they die reliably in many people's gardens. At the root of this is the great British Winter climate. Echinaceas want moist roots and dry free flowing air; what we give them is a regular deluge followed by misty, muggy days. The consequence is fungal rots and a dead Coneflower. You can help by planting your Echinacea in an open situation where the breeze will keep the crown drier, but the stark reality is that Echinacea are not reliable in everyone's garden. As a consequence will only consider complaints about Echinacea within a month of purchase and certainly not following a Winter.  

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    Hungarian Globe Thistle. An intensely blue selection of this species, said to be far superior to forms of Echinops ritro. Large too, flowering at 120cm tall. Flowers from July to October. The species originates from Central to Eastern Europe through to Asia  
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    A very vigorous variety which can grow to 5 to 6 feet 1.8m) in height, making it larger than the other regularly seen Echinops. Excellent if you have the space to let it grow to its full potential and very effective with larger grasses. Flowers are a silvery metallic blue and magnet for bees. Stiff silvery stems with silver-backed thistle-like leaves which terminate in globes the size of a spiky golf ball. Great architectural quality and very undemanding and rewarding. Flowers can be dried upside down for everlasting decorations if cut early. Requires only sun and decent drainage in any soil to do well.
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    Eupatorium maculatum 'Purple Bush' ( Atropurpureum Group ). Useful late flowering plants for the summer border. Tall purple flecked stems to 5' (160cm) carry whorls of purple tinted foliage and are topped by broad fluffy clusters of dark pink flowers which are irresistible to butterflies. Stems are an attractive rich burgundy. Equally at home in the border or wild flower meadow. Sun or part shade.
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    A really nice very dark-leaved G.pratense with white flowers heavily rayed in lavender. The flowers aren't startling white as you find in say a G.sanguineum Album, largely owing to the influence of the veins, an influence that can be quite pronounced at some times of day. The handsome deeply divided foliage is dark purple on dark purple stems in a shortish 30cm mound. Best in full sun, but not too dry, or in more shade if you don't mind the foliage developing more green. like all G,pratense it is prone to mildew after flowering and is best trimmed then to rejuvenate. 35cm high by 45cm wide. Arose from the original batch of Victor Reiter seed grown by Robin Moss. fusion_separator style_type="single solid" hide_on_mobile="small-visibility,medium-visibility,large-visibility" class="" id="" sep_color="" top_margin="" bottom_margin="" border_size="" icon="" icon_circle="" icon_circle_color="" width="" alignment="center"][/fusion_separator]

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    Geranium pratense Victor Reiter Strain. Stunning new cultivar with leaves of a striking purple-black above which deep purple saucer shaped blooms are proudly displayed. Place in a prominent position where the unusual many fingered leaves will always provoke comment. Not as high as some of the meadow cranesbills. Leaves become greener as the year progresses or if they are in too much shade. Best in sun. to 60cm. There was a profusion of cultivars produced following the original Californian introduction of G.'Vicor Reiter' which has led to some muddling and confusion in the names of the purple leaved strains, some of which are seed raised, and some micropropagated. This is one of the seed raised strains. originally bred by Californian nurseryman Victor Reiter in the 1970's
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