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Wyn's Feisty Freda grows well, good color, petals wrap completely back to the stem. Photographs more to the red side of purple than it appears in person.
Yes, I love Feisty Freda. And thank goodness the purple you sent seems to be it. :-). So far its the only one that has shown up for me this year. She's just getting ready to bloom real good.
Talk about photographing purples...maybe one just needs to start with the right flower I think this is HH Purely Purple, but look how the color came through!
Talk about photographing purples...maybe one just needs to start with the right flower I think this is HH Purely Purple, but look how the color came through!
If that photo is accurate to the real flower, I must get that on my ATP want list RIGHT NOW!!!!
Yes, that flower is just about that color. I grow 3 Hollyhills purples together...Hollyhill Joy, Hollyhill Purely Purple and Hollyhill Regal. Regal is another favorite purple, not quite as deep and true as this but close and it never fades either in the garden or in a bouquet. IT also grows very tall. Hollyhill Joy is bigger, shorter and slightly more red a purple but a beautiful flower too. I have quit trying to grow most other purples because these are such fine ones. I do like Worton's Blue for its amazing shade or bluish lavender, and I love Fremont's Memory for its big sturdy red purple bloom. I liked Diva but it went a bit virusy so I don't have it this year.
Nice photo Noni! Looks like you managed to capture some of that elusive purple I've been struggling to photograph. Purely Purple appears to have a nice form too. I'm kind of partial to formal decoratives. I've added it to my wish list. Is it heat tolerant too?
All I can say about heat tolerance is that its been hotter then normal by about 15 degrees this summer, with highs around 90 and it looks this great. Of Course it is one of Ted and Margaret's beauties and they are routinely anothert 15 degrees hotter during much of the summer then we are. Ted, how's it looking in your garden this summer? I think you have been near 100 quite a few days this summer?
Purely Purple did not notice that it was hot outside. It grows about 3.5 feet tall. I have sold it pretty much every year since we originated it. But I have only about 5 pot tubers of it and even though I always dig and divide the tuber clumps in the garden, they NEVER keep for me. I am not selling it this year and am saving the pot tubers for myself. Verrones sold pot tubers of it last year.
We like to place a sign on our porch that says: We are in the garden. Really, we are always in the garden.
For some reason my tubers did keep just fine of it, which is good because I didn't really understand pot tubers in time to grow them last year. I think I have one in a pot in the garden this year. If a lot of you want it next year maybe I can grow some from cuttings for you. Crossing fingers that the tubers keep as well for me this year as last but its a whole different year in my garden now, with the extra light and heat this summer.
That is an amazing color. I find most of the people who buy from me at the market couldn't care less about form. I bet it goes good as a cut flower and I like the color. My question would be, how does it hold up to 5 hours outside in 78 degree weather under a canopy.
Name: Jon George Gainesville, FL ...crazy enough to grow dahlias in
Steve, HH Purely Purple did very well here and bloomed like crazy in the early part of summer. It has gone dormant for me like many other varieties in the extreme FL monsoon season....time will tell if it will reemerge for a second season.
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Wyn's Feisty Freda grows well, good color, petals wrap completely back to the stem. Photographs more to the red side of purple than it appears in person.
I think this is HH Purely Purple, but look how the color came through!
Is it heat tolerant too?
Diva BB FD PR (probably should be classified B)
Never gets over 3" for me but an amazing cutflower
