• Subject: Re: Possible i.d. of Fargesia & Echinacea 'Raspberry Petticoats'.
• From: "* P* L* <lindsey@mallorn.com>
• Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:31:12 -0400 (EDT)

----- Original Message -----> 
> Chris...thanks for the picture ability...this will be great fun and
> even more interesting. Your pic of the Echinacea is fabulous...is
> the one Terra Nova claims is entirely theirs just like yours? Is
> there anything you can do or is it too costly to fight them? Did you
> breed yours or was it a sport of some kind? Any possibility of
> re-producing something similar? What a beauty and what a terrible
> shame. I know you worked hard on this and had very high hopes for
> it.

The one from Terra Nova is different, although they were working on
others as well.  To be honest, I stopped following the new introductions
because I found it depressing.  :)

I did notice that 'Heronswood' has a very similar-looking one out this
year, called Echinacea 'Pomegranate'. 
 
   http://bit.ly/mQu6w3

Theirs is an obvious sport of 'Doubledecker' (as was mine), but 
appears to revert to the old Doubledecker form readily.  Mine had 
the same color-changing effect -- early flowers were a shell pink
with a hint of lavender and became darker with age.  Attached is a 
photo as the petals were first opening.

Chris

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