6” bloom, 35” tall
3-4 way branching / 20 buds
Tetraploid
Bloom season: mid-late
Foliage: semi-evergreen
NORTHERN KINGFISHER x
ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN
18L094
HUNTER’S MOONLIGHT – Hunter-L. 2025
When I have extra seeds, I offer them to my granddaughters, because they can only hybridize for the few days that they visit Illinois in the summer. Luna lives in a ‘brownstone walk up’ in Brooklyn, so doesn’t have access to her own patch of garden. At the end of the season, I make power point slides of crosses that I haven’t used, showing the 2 parents, and let them pick a few seed packets to add to their own harvest. Luna has managed twice to pick crosses that I took a pass on and come up with a winner. ‘Hunter’s Moonlight’ is one of them.
The sepals on this Unusual Form crispate regularly quill, and sometimes are spatulate on the ends. The petals have big loose ruffles that are edged in cream. The overall color is pale rose to pale peach, depending on the lighting. A green heart expands to a yellow throat which becomes washed lavender as it reaches the rose eyeliner on the petals.
‘Hunter’s Moonlight’ has nice branching that is wide enough to display the large flowers without interference. It is pod fertile. The pollen hasn’t been used, but looks good.
$90 / double fan
