You are bidding on 5 seeds of ROYAL BLUE BLOOD X MICHAEL BENNETT
ROYAL BLUE BLOOD (Hite, 1979) height 28", bloom 5", season EM, Dormant, Tetraploid, Deep blue purple with green throat. (Chicago Mist X Pixie Plum) A very strong grower with bluish lavender flowers on top of beautifully branched and budded scapes (25 buds, 5 branches). It blooms at about 36” for me. It's hard to beat the performance of this plant. It may be an older introduction but it is a winner all the way around. Right photo.
MICHAEL BENNETT (Brooker-G, 2005) height 26", bloom 8", season MLa, Dormant, Tetraploid, 12 buds, 3 branches, Unusual Form Spatulate, Purple grape with silver white watermark above green throat. (Gerda Brooker × Druid Spell) Awards: HM 2008 While a bit short, this plant is always striking and loaded with branches and buds plus rebloom in my zone 5b garden. Left photo.
Breeding for distinctive lavender flowers with a clear bluish cast, particularly the watermark zone, on plants that produce wonderfully branched and budded scapes and which may also rebloom in the northern climate with this cross. Royal Blue Blood has so many excellent qualities, they should be captured more often into promising seed.
I only have a few extra crosses this year. I wish I could plant them all but it simply isn’t possible so I hope others will find them interesting as well.
These are fresh seeds from the 2018 growing season. Seeds were dried, placed in clearly labeled packets, and stored under refrigeration for maximum viability. My plump seeds are shipped in double bubble wrapping layers to ensure safe delivery which requires parcel postage rates. Shipping is $4.00 ($11.50 Canada) for up to 10 wins shipped together in the same envelope once payment has cleared. You may request to combine wins to save on shipping costs. For high volume US buyers, I highly recommend using a 2 Day Priority Mail Small Flat Rate box for an unlimited amount of wins for an $8.00 shipping fee. Canadian winners MUST pay by PayPal in US funds. Bonus seeds of my choice (usually the same cross) will be included when payments are maintained within 10 days of auction closing date. Please include your auction alias with all correspondence and payment.
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