Description: Upright and spreading with grooved leaves. Mid green leaves. Bright crimson flowers with lighter centres are held in an upright cylindrical firm trusses, .(M.Koster & Son 1915)
Parentage: George Hardy x Doncaster
Ultimate Height: 3.0 meters after 10 years
Flowering Period: This plants flowers in the North Hemisphere around May-June
Hardy in all but the coldest parts of Pacific Northwest and UK, France and northern Italy, around Bergen (Norway) and mildest parts of NE USA such as Cape Cod and parts of Long Island. (Please note.)