Last week we had the first assessment of the new seedlings (and some older ones) from Dennis, have another visit planned in a couple of weeks to catch any later flowering lines and have a second check on those we felt have interest the first time around.
As is often the case the potential introductions are small in number against the total number of seedlings, you have to be very selective in flower shape, colour, size etc along with plant habit, foliage colour and outdoor performance to name a few!
Thankfully Dennis has some fantastic basket types fitting these criteria, a great selection of colours, Apricots, Pinks, Whites, Bicolours, fully doubles, ruffled and more.
Obviously this selection process is at the very early stages of any plants development, they will be tested again in larger numbers next summer at the same time being assessed for mother stock and cutting production and disease resistance - plenty of work still to do then!
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