Derrick Turbitt
Portstewart, Co.Antrim, N.Ireland
Derrick TurbittTom Bloomer, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1982
Passionale x (Interim x Rose Caprice)
Mentor
Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1979
May Queen x 2 W-P Richardson seedling~ R3341
High Society
Fl. 105mm wide; perianth segments 45mm long, roundish, very broad, scarcely mucronate, spreading, plane, smooth and of heavy substance, overlapping half; the inner segments narrower, shouldered at base; corona 25mm long, cylindrical, smooth, mouth straight, narrowly ribbed and a little wavy, with rim rolled and crenate.
Part of Derrick Turbitt’s ‘Causeway’ series. The Giants Causeway is an array of an estimated 40,000 basalt columns located on the north coast of Northern Ireland. It is frequently referred to the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World’. Named in celebration of the Summer 2012 Olympic Torch coming to the Causeway coast.
Causeway Torch, 2 W-YYP, Derrick Turbitt, Northern Ireland, 2012
Photo #60044 Kirby Fong, USACauseway Torch, 2 W-YYP, Derrick Turbitt, Northern Ireland, 2012
Photo #60043 Kirby Fong, USACauseway Torch, 2 W-YYP, Derrick Turbitt, Northern Ireland, 2012
Photo #55038 Rose Bradley, USACauseway Torch, 2 W-YYP, Derrick Turbitt, Northern Ireland, 2012
Photo #50403 Ian Scroggy, Northern IrelandCauseway Torch, 2 W-YYP, Derrick Turbitt, Northern Ireland, 2012
Photo #50262 Nial Watson, Northern Ireland