Description: Vigorous and free-flowering, compact and spreading habit with dark green leaves. Deep currant red with slight spotting on the upper lobes. Spring Magic, Elizabeth Hobbie, Baden-Baden and Scarlet Wonder are all the same cross.
Parentage: Essex Scarlet x forrestii Repens Group
Ultimate Height: 2.0 meters after 10 years
Flowering Period: This plants flowers in the North Hemisphere around April
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.)