*SCARLET PIMPERNEL (Awards: Stout Silver Medal 2019, Award of Merit 2016, Honorable Mention 2013, 2013 National Convention Ned Roberts spider/Unusual Form Award)

(N. Ripley 2007) Tet (Ruby Spider x Royal Celebration). Height 35”, flower 10”, 3-way to 4-way branching, bud count 12-18 (depending on rain), unusual form. Glowing Royal Garnet Red combined with chartreuse green throat can put a WOW in your garden. This flower has strong saturated colors that dazzle a painter’s eye. I love to paint watercolors and when I laid eyes on Scarlet Pimpernel I immediately wanted to put the brilliant colors and flower form on paper. Scarlet Pimpernel is often producing 4 petals and 4 sepals making 4 x 4 polymerous blooms. The flowers stand erect all day and do not fade, looking as fresh in the evening as in the early morning. When you add that Scarlet Pimpernel is a rebloomer and is both pod and pollen fertile, it is a gardener’s, collector’s, and hybridizer’s dream machine. Double fan, $30.00. Scarlet Pimpernel can be seen in the 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019 National Gardens.

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