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STREPTOCARPUS GUIDES
Varieties
Apart from Cape Primrose ’s many merits pertain above , this happy little wildflower possesses a remarkable natural endowment for accumulate RHS Awards of Garden Merit – it has garnered 35 of them.1Ornamental AGM Plants . ( 2021c , July ) . Royal Horticultural Society . Retrieved March 24 , 2023 , fromhttps://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/pdfs/agm-lists/agm-ornamentals.pdf
All but three of my top twelve choices are AGM winner .
“ The enceinte thing about Streptocarpus is their collectability , ” says Master Horticulturist Colin Skelly .
“ Once you have one , you want another , and then another ! A bit like auriculas , you keep finding one after another that you look up to and recollect ‘ just one more ’ . ”
The elision are ’ Watermelon Wine ’ pick out for being one of the only true Red River and a ego at that , ‘ Anne ’ for its double form but even more for the intense reddish blue , and ‘ Zoe ’ for its unusually endearing color and patterning .
1) ‘Harlequin Blue’
Has to lead our rundown because it was the Chelsea Plant of the Year for 2010.2Buy RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year 2010 Streptocarpus “ Harlequin Blue ( PBR).”(n.d . ) . RHS Plants . Retrieved March 24 , 2023 , fromhttps://www.rhsplants.co.uk/plants/_/streptocarpus-harlequin-blue-pbr/classid.2000035807/
One might say that its bloom are precisely bi - discolour to ne plus ultra .
The totality of the upper two flower petal is a subdued purplish - blue while the entirety of the down three is a wan creamy icteric .
A dark violet streak running from the pharynx out to the edge divides the two readiness of petals and the two colour !
This mixed bag bloom from spring through autumn .
2) ‘White Butterfly’
own two uncommon attributes .
Though its peak in size are at the depleted limit at 2.5 cm this variety is possibly the only one to make pure white ‘ ego ’ flowers .
And , second , it is floriferous , and it is one of those wonderment that blooms all 12 months of the year !
3) ‘Tina’
Is not particularly recognize in the routine pink musical note of its prime with darker splotches on the lower petals but itisdistinguished in the size of its flush which , at up to 6 cm , are monumental for Cape Primrose .
The leaves are of quite a glowering shade and are oblong .
It flowers from spring through autumn .
4) ‘Charlotte’
Has brilliant greenish foliage from which turn out finely hue blossom .
They are a wan pastel lilac with the low petals displaying blotches of an as pale , pastel complemental yellow with a similarly coloured throat .
It bloom from spring through autumn .
5) ‘Crystal Ice’
Has snowy white flowers with frail , veinlike accent mark of purpleness to violet on the lower petals .
The leaves are a robust , dark shadowiness , and it is remarkable for being one of those relatively few twelvemonth - unit of ammunition flowering wonder .
6) ‘Sioned’
Has medium - unripened strap - corresponding leave and hold peculiarly delicious flowers .
They are off - white with the lower petals stress with a variegated and veinlike splodge of magenta - pink that start in the pharynx and phlebotomise away near the out edges .
7) ‘Burgundy Ice’
Produces flowers that are as strange as they are oculus - pull .
Their footing color is a rich maroon of a burgundy - blackcurrant tone with subtly darker veining and gradation .
These concentrated tones are accented with a livid throat , primal lily-white speckles , and fine white edging .
8) ‘Stella’
Has shoulder strap - regulate leave of a very rich shade .
The heyday are of an even richer timber of purple with elusive streaking , veining and gradation in a more or less dingy reddish blue so as to produce a tilt colour effect .
The rich , recondite hue and the graduation produce the outcome of the petals appearing to be shiny .
9) ‘Watermelon Wine’
Has foliage of a very pleasing bright mid - green shade .
The dramatic blossom are of a single colour , a solid lipstick reddish with slightly darker shadings on the downcast petals which only enhances the intensity of the hue .
10) ‘Anne’
Has spanking bright light-green leaf that are particularly wrinkled and textured .
It is one of the few varieties to develop double flowers with the inner petals being ruffled or half - closed in .
The flowers are ‘ self ’ in a tone of vivid violet all through .
It does not bloom as long as most other potpourri , grow flower from mid - spring to other autumn .
11) ‘Zoe’
Has attractive foliation of nearly an emerald fleeceable note .
It produces blossom with extraordinary colouration .
Each flower is in a gradated shadiness of purple from pale lilac to deep , robust purple with veining in darker shade over lighter shades all over .
bar of deep purple run out from the pharynx on the three lower petals which are further embellished with creamy yellow in the throat and the median side , just as the upper petals are similarly accented with white-hot .
12) ‘Polka-Dot Purple’
Has leave-taking of a particularly promiscuous , promising fleeceable .
It produces trumpet - shape flowers that are quite startling .
They are of a inscrutable , fertile empurpled hue with white streaks radiating from the centre , broad livid edging , and very many ashen speckles or ‘ polka dots ’ .
The overall effect is one of regal and white marbling of a kind .
This fantastic variety flush yr - rotund .
