Downfield
Classification:
4 Y-O[ Double ]
Season:
Mid-Season
Height:
Standard - 32.5 to 67.5 cm (12.8 to 26.6 in)
Year of first flowering:
1997
Hybridizer:
, Northern Ireland, UK
Registered:
Yes, 2011
Seed Parent: 
Smokey Bear 4 Y-O 
Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1978
Papua x Vagabond
Smokey Bear
Pollen Parent: 
Limbo 2 O-R 
Brian S. Duncan, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1984
Altruist x Ulster Bank
Limbo
Seedling Number:
MK 52
Pedigree Chart:
Descendants:
None
Comments

Fl. 110mm wide; perianth and other petaloid segments in three whorls; the outer whorl 50mm long, broadly ovate, blunt, slightly truncate and mucronate, spreading, concave, with margins incurved, with midrib showing, of heavy substance, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments narrower and shouldered at base; the middle whorl shorter and narrower than the outer whorl, inflexed and slightly creased; the inner whorl more strongly inflexed, folded inwards from midrib, with margins incurled and wavy; corona segments half the length of the perianth segments, interspersed among the middle and inner whorls of perianth segments and clustered at center, broad, with wavy margins.

Origin of Name

Named for the raiser’s home in Northern Ireland.