Are the colors of the blooms and leaves really that dark? I really like them! The plant looks nice and healthy. Meg

This one should have a thin geneva edge on the flowers. There it is again - can be condition related - or it is a sport. I heard that it straightens up.

Exceptional variety - Don Ness from Minnesota hybridized some good ones -and this is probably his best. Another semi-mini - Ness' Satin Rose - is also very good.

Blossoms have a lot of substance and last FOREVER.

Both lovely plants and I do like those leaves!

Thank you both for posting the stunning photos !

Lovely

I was thinking the same thing, Irina. I was trying to see if any of the blooms in Aegis' photo showed any white edging at all as my N's Crinkle Blue sometimes has it like your photo and sometimes in the year there is less - just a touch of the geneva edge here and there. It seems to vary but I've not figured out why. Temperature, perhaps?

And yes, Terrilou, I agree that the leaves are one of this plant's best features.

I think Aegis's plant has some edging ion the flowers in a center of the crown. It is registered as variable thin white edge - so it acceptable to have it sometimes more sometimes less.

Otherwise - get the best clone - and stick to it...

Aegis I love the leaves the way they are scalloped!!!! And the flowers are beautiful ! Rosie

Actually, it's a misconception that Ness' Crinkle Blue has a white geneva edge. It never has had that. What it does is when the flowers first open, and especially in cool weather, they have /curled/ edges that are slightly pale or white edged just while the flowers are expanding. In warm weather you rarely see it and that is perfectly normal. I have had more than one AVSA judge explain that to a room full of clerks. I've also had a lot of Ness's Crinkle Blue's over the years and none of them really had anything like a true geneva edge.

Here's one of mine in bloom right now that over the winter had more of a pale edge to the flowers that it's no longer really showing in my warm 80's. By the time it blooms this summer it won't even be showing that much and that's normal.

THATS A GOOD ONE!

Nice! Rosie