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| BAYOU GYPSY (Jim Hedgecock) 34" M $35 Standards light raspberry with darker streaks and splashes. Falls deeper raspberry with yellow signal. Style arms raspberry with lighter midribs and edges. Gently ruffled, 6" blooms. | ||||||||
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| BONDI BLUE WAVE (Heather Pryor) 47" E $35 Standards are mid steel-lavender with a white line signal. Falls are the same color as the Standards, with a raised lime steeple signal and purple surround. The slightly reflexed flowers have a rounded flower shape. Style arms are lavender with white edges and deep lavender tips. Named for the most famous surfing beach in Australia. | ||||||||
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| FEATHER AND FAN (Heather Pryor) 39" M $35 Standards white with cyclamen-violet blush and fine white petal rim, thin lilac line signal, petals often 'feathered'. Falls lilac-pink with darker cyclamen-lilac blush at edges, white rim with golden blotch signal overlaid golden steeple signal with lilac surround. Style arms cyclamen-violet, white tips and edges. One of the most unusual cultivars from the Pryor's gardens. | ||||||||
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| ROMANTIC MEMORY (Bernard Pryor) 30" M $35 Petite red-purple self with winter white petal rim and reverse. Darker purple veining with white line spray patterns around the signals. Raised golden steeple signals in a yellow sunray spray on all petals, giving a steeple star effect. A shorter-growing cultivar with petite flowers, smaller-growing rhizomes and quality stalks. | ||||||||
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| TANDOORI SIZZLER (Heather Pryor) 41" ML $35 All petals bright ginger-orange with fine yellow petal rim and pale yellow reverse. Style arms medium-apricot with a pronounced yellow midrib, multiple steeple signal on all petals with a pronounced red line around the signal pattern. Flowers will recurve gracefully when they are mature. The closest we've come to the elusive orange coloration yet. | ||||||||
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| WALTZ KING (Bernard Pryor) 35" ML $35 Highly ruffled mid violet self with an unusual 1/4" wide sanded-cream rim with serrated petal edges and strong red-violet blush signals, line signals on the standards and golden blotch overlaying a lime steeple signal on the falls. Heavily ruffled lemon style arms complete the picture. The ruffled flowers can take two to open fully. A cultivar for those who love ruffled flowers. One of our personal favorites. | ||||||||
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| BEGIN AGAIN (Calvin Helsley) 35" M $35 Combining a primary cross involving I. sibirica, with I. typhifolia we have a new set of genes to Begin Again. Flaring falls are blue violet with a large signal covering almost half the fall and heavily veined blue violet. The standards are redder blue and upright. | ||||||||
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| IN THIS MOMENT (Calvin Helsley) 38" LM $35 Flaring flowers are deep violet with reddish tints with small white signals that are almost hidden. The smaller flowers open wide and overlapping and by the second day have developed an edging of delightful ruffles. | ||||||||
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| MISTS OF MORNING (Calvin Helsley) 36" LM $35 This flaring beauty has light violet flowers with orchid tinges with reddish violet veins and blush on hafts. Styles are slightly lighter with darker blue midribs. | ||||||||
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| TURN AND PRESTIGE (Calvin Helsley) 32" M $35 Lavender with rosy violet blushes at the edges and a violet halo around the yellow to white signals. The styles are lavender with turquoise midrib. Turn and Prestige are the last two parts of a magic trick. Turn is when the "magic" or deception is taking place and Prestige is when the magician reveals the results of the "magic". Enjoy the magic! | ||||||||
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| CRICKET SONG (Tom Silvers) 24" M $25 Standards medium blue-purple; falls medium purple. Beards white, tipped orange with tiny amount of brown. Pronounced musky fragrance, rebloomer (reported rebloom in MD, KY and CA). This diploid is a seedling of I. cengialtii from pollen of CLOWN PANTS (which is I. variegata X I. suaveolens var. mellita). | ||||||||
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