PASTEL SPLENDOR (Roger Anderson/Bill Seidl), Manitowoc, Wisconsin, July 9, 1996. Seedling #SB-6. Parentage Martha W. x Saunders F2 A. First bloomed about 1988. This hybrid has pale lavender petals shading to cream toward center and dark purple flares. Two rows of five petals each reveal ten flares since there is, at most, only a thin stamen ring to obscure them. Multiple carpels, sometimes excessively so. Extremely vigorous. Original plant had 70 stems in a mounded plant 30" high x 56" wide in 1991, before division.

Pastel Splendor Large single white showing shades of light pink and yellow upon opening. Attractive center of showier white tipped carpel etched with brilliant red flares. Very good garden plant

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Pastel Splendor (Anderson/Seidl, 1996) Creamy white with red flares, single, midseason, 33" tall, intersectional. As named, this flower changes from pinks to yellows toward the large center of many carpels surrounded by red flares.