Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1952
Cotterton x Broughshane
Rashee
Guy L. Wilson, Northern Ireland
Year Registered: 1952
Guardian x Kanchenjunga
Empress of Ireland
Fl. forming a double triangle, snow white; perianth segments broadly ovate, blunt, slightly mucronate, spreading, smooth and of heavy texture, overlapping one-third to a half; the inner segments more narrowly ovate, a little twisted; corona cylindrical, smooth, somewhat constricted towards mouth, with mouth expanded and very slightly wavy, rim shallowly crenate.
Received the Royal Horticultural Society(RHS) Award of Garden Merit(AGM) in 2002 and the award was rescinded by the RHS in 2012.
Part of Tom Bloomer’s “Silent Series.” Named after a well known are of outstanding beauty in Northern Ireland.
Silent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #48678 Kirby Fong, USASilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #45888 Brenda Lyon, AustraliaSilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #43742 Ralph Sowell, USASilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #41516 Kirby Fong, USASilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #40438 John Castor, USASilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #32338 Tom Stettner, USASilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #15832 Carlos van der Veek, the NetherlandsSilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #14744 Kirby Fong, USASilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #10508 Gordon Coombes, New ZealandSilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #8956 Ian Tyler, EnglandSilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #7718 Ian Scroggy, Northern IrelandSilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #4304 Tony James, EnglandSilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #4303 Tony James, EnglandSilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #4302 Tony James, EnglandSilent Valley, 1 W-GWW, Tom Bloomer, Northern Ireland, 1964
Photo #4301 Tony James, England