A strain selected and raised from seed in germany, and then further propagated in holland, before going to england where the best, deepest purple and burgundy colours and shaded where selected from several hundred plants. I was then able to aquire 15 hand picked plants from the batch of best seedlings, so these 15 plants available all have the richest possible shades imaginable. A shade so intense and beautufull that it has proven impossible to realistically capture with film or digital cameras, therefore I asked Veronica Ward, an english artist, to paint one for me. This is the painting you can admire above. This stays in flower for a very long time, from august to late november.