Description: Forms a large rounded shrub with large leaves, covered when young with a powdery indumentum. Leaf reverse is covered with a thick white, turning to golden fawn, indumentum. Deep smokey parma violet flowers.
Parentage: niveum x unknown
Ultimate Height: 3.0 meters after 10 years
Flowering Period: This plants flowers in the North Hemisphere around April - May
Availability: YES this item is normaly in stock, but due to exceptional demand or propagation difficulties there may be a temporary shortage.
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.)