Tumbelinas and more: Five worthwhile new introductions for release in 2008 from 18,000 seedlings in 2003 would be a very successful outcome

摘要

When Priscilla married Unwins Seeds' Commercial Director David Kerley, she did not expect her name twenty years later to be on the lips of every commercial producer of petunias for the hanging basket trade, Introduced in 1997, the variety Priscilla was the first successful seedling of just a hundred resulting from one cross made by her in 1995. It was the forerunner of an internationally successful series, the Tumbelinas. The double-flowered Priscilla, a dark-veined lavender-blue with a lovely fragrance and a distinctively pot-hugging habit, achieved instant acclaim.