My favorite cultivar. It can be grown in sun or shade. In a shaded position it will produce longer stems, while in sun the flowers are he...Read Moreld closer to the foliage. Shade grown flowers produce better stems for cutting. Mr. Fokker may be a bit hardier than other A. coronaria. The flowers open a deep indigo purple and fade to a steely cornflower blue/lilac.
I received a few corms (?) of this as a free gift. I almost forgot about them, but then planted them in late spring last year (2012) in a...Read More little spot and promptly forgot about them again.
Even though the area was tramped on and dug a little (that's when I saw them and remembered them!), they came up like gangbusters in June. They then proceed to bloom and bloom and bloom-until the snow weighed them down. Imagine my surprise this spring when the snow went and there was still some green on them, plus a couple of pathetic short blossoms trying to open!
They are the most gorgeous blooms that last and last. Mine are in full sun in zone 5b-6a. They seem to be making babies fairly well, too.
My favorite cultivar. It can be grown in sun or shade. In a shaded position it will produce longer stems, while in sun the flowers are he...Read More
I received a few corms (?) of this as a free gift. I almost forgot about them, but then planted them in late spring last year (2012) in a...Read More