• Goliath (practically glabrous)
• Samuel Sommer
• Gallissonniere
• Kay Parris
• Brown Velvet (DD Blanchard)

Kay Parris and DD Blanchard are two cultivars recently introduced from the USA. Their reputation is based on the quality of the foliage rather than on exception al flowers.

The difference between them and the three cultivars more common in the UK is more marked on the previous years leaves shown in the June photograph than on the current year’s leaves shown in the October photograph, the indumentum being more persistent on the new cultivars. DD Blanchard looks especially desirable and unusual.

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