PURPLE PANSY

tet 26" M. Dor. (Lavender Nocturne X Imperial Decree) PURPLE FLASH is the widest, most heavily ruffled and most overlapped purple self we have seen or grown. Very flat, heavy, and always perfectly flat-open even after a string of cold nights. This 5.5" deep saturated purple self is more circular than either parent and more ruffled as well. Takes color from IMPERIAL DECREE, and big lime-green throat from parent LAVENDER NOCTURNE. Branching comes from both sides, but again, PURPLE PANSY is superior to both parents in all aspects of flower and plant. Beautifully branched scapes boast a total of 30-35 buds, and can have 3 or more perfectly spaced blooms open for that "Queen-of-show" ribbon. I only made a few random crosses with LAVENDER NOCTURNE and in retrospect, I regret not using it much more heavily. First TWILIGHT EMPIRE and now PURPLE PANSY. Fertile both ways and re-blooms consistently in my Cincinnati, Ohio garden. I meant to line this out in the fall of 2005, and dug my clump of PURPLE PANSY, but got distracted and it lay on top of the ground, roots exposed all throughout the winter of 2005-2006. Realizing I had never gotten a good shot of it, I took the photo seen here on a plant blooming in a rock hard dirtball, having come through an entire winter on top of the ground. I challenge anyone to try that with any other new purple. FALL ONLY $200.00


	PURPLE PANSY (Benz) tet 26" M. Dor. (Lavender Nocturne X Imperial Decree) PURPLE FLASH is the widest, most heavily ruffled and most overlapped purple self we have seen or grown. Very flat, heavy, and always perfectly flat-open even after a string of cold nights. This 5.5" deep saturated purple self is more circular than either parent and more ruffled as well. Takes color from IMPERIAL DECREE, and big lime-green throat from parent LAVENDER NOCTURNE. Branching comes from both sides, but again, PURPLE PANSY is superior to both parents in all aspects of flower and plant. Beautifully branched scapes boast a total of 30-35 buds, and can have 3 or more perfectly spaced blooms open for that "Queen-of-show" ribbon. I only made a few random crosses with LAVENDER NOCTURNE and in retrospect, I regret not using it much more heavily. First TWILIGHT EMPIRE and now PURPLE PANSY. Fertile both ways and re-blooms consistently in my Cincinnati, Ohio garden. I meant to line this out in the fall of 2005, and dug my clump of PURPLE PANSY, but got distracted and it lay on top of the ground, roots exposed all throughout the winter of 2005-2006. Realizing I had never gotten a good shot of it, I took the photo seen here on a plant blooming in a rock hard dirtball, having come through an entire winter on top of the ground. I challenge anyone to try that with any other new purple. FALL ONLY $200.00