Flat blooming, snowflake petalled pin.  White petals with mauve suffusion concentrated towrds the centre of the flower.  Pink suffused reverse. A favourite that can be traced back to the Edo period in Japan.  The name is derived from a Japanese battleship of the early 1900s called “Deer Island”, which shares its name with an island in [...]

A semi-double form that is in our experience more regularly flowering in a very attractive single-form.  White-edged purple flowers.

Rose backed semi-double cultivar, often with large secondary petals. Our collection semi-double sieboldii all exhibit a variable trait on the extent of the double-petalling.  In good weather years the flowers will show the double nature.  In poor weather seasons the flowers will often revert to  single blooms for the year. This cultivar is one of [...]

White centred bright pink snowflake thrum, with distinctly edged slender petals.

transl. “small cherry-blossom Genji” – Prince Hikaru (shining) Genji was the central character of “Genji Monogotari”, a Heian period novel An old form

Pink backed, white snowflake with heavy pink mottling to the edge of the petals.  We understand that this is of American origin and like most of our cultivars from USA, tends to be slow to propagate in the UK.  We have no idea why this is.

White veined pink pin with wavy bi-lobed petals.  This cultivar originates in Japan from the early 1800s. The cultivar name translates as “Dancer’s Fan”

Flat blooming, notch petalled thrum.  Blue flower buds open to white flowers suffused with pink/blue blush.  Colour ages to a more pink hue.  From the former Martin Nest Nurseries in Lincolnshire.