RAINY DAY BLUES (Jeffcoat, P) 2004
(LAVENDER STARDUST X PRIM AND PROPER Seedling)
25" ML Re Fra SEV 6.25" DIPLOID
RAINY DAY BLUES, much admired by garden visitors, is a beautiful large flat and round mulberry flower with a faint lighter edge around part of the very wide ruffled 3.5 inch petals and 2.25 inch sepals. Sepals are blunt and recurve slightly on occasion, other times the flower is very flat and round. The throat is a deep green becoming yellow as it flows out onto the petals. At the outer edge of the yellow is a bluish halo, which cannot be captured on film. RAINY DAY BLUES has heavy substance, color holds well in sun and it has 2 to 3 way branching with 15 buds. Fertile.