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The plants at Mottisfont Abbey are incorrectly named.
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#1 of 4 posted
27 JUN by
jedmar
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Only 'Violet Queen' or others too?
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Good question. None that comes to mind at once. But I will think again - I have occasionally had doubts, but very few. I noticed last week, for example, that 'Vick's Caprice' has reverted to 'Archiduchesse Elisabeth d'Autriche' and that most of the flowers are now without stripes. CQ-R.
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27 JUN by
jedmar
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Could the reversions be a result of the heat waves? I suppose one needs to check over a couple of years whether the stripes are really gone for ever.
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It is hard to answer this question. Photographs taken in 2015 show pronounced striping. By 2018, the stripes are very faint. By 2023, they appear to have vanished completely. But I need to see whether the reversion is limited to just part of the plant(s), in which case the reversions could be pruned out. I'm afraid I forgot to look at them when we were there last week but I will try to remember when they rebloom later in the year. I doubt whether heat would be the cause of the reversion. We do not have hot weather in England.
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