Description: Distinctive semi-dwarf shrub, with twisted and wavy dark green leaves. Bears waxy deep cherry red, occasionally spotted, flowers. Spring Magic, Elizabeth Hobbie, Baden-Baden and Scarlet Wonder are all the same cross.
Parentage: Essex Scarlet x forrestii ssp forrestii
Ultimate Height: 1.2 meters after 10 years
Flowering Period: This plants flowers in the North Hemisphere around May
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.)