In the twilight of dawn I dream of home Our food tastes with the smell of smoke the fire crackles in the earthen stove The air is so fresh after the summer storms When torrents from the mountains flood the river banks The sky is decorated with twinkling stars The moon pours her light upon bedside floor The crickets play their nocturne all night long The river makes its gurgling in the valley beneath The rice is ripening in the fields They fill the air with the smell of harvest Oh, home that I once had in childhood, Can I have again in adulthood? Image link:

thanks Ken. I think ive posted a blank post somewhere too. I posted this in the europe section, and hybridising. I cant find any evidence that it is propagation protected, and think it should be easy to propagate by division. I bought 10 roots from a wholesale place by mail order in the autumn and they didnt mention it being protected. I did intend to commercialy propagate it, yes. Havent seen it flower yet, but its supposed to have extra large flowers. My reason for the questions was mostly that I Thought it would be nice to try to cross it with some other herbaceous potentillas. a bit of background info might save some work. DG says "may be sterile or may not come true from seed" but most hybrids dont come true anyway. The web seems just to repeat the bit about it having big flowers on various catalogue pages from different firms. Thanks, Charlie

apparently.. after a week.. no one has experience ... on the specific topic you wish ken

Yes Kristi! Thank you for the support! I'm going to do exactly that! And I will write to Royal Colors too. And at the same time beg for some new cybisters to be added to their list. Did any of you order 'Barbados' this year? Well as I said I did and wow was it impressive. Blood-red red and huge size flowers. I don't have either Gilmar or Minerva so Barbados fills the gap splendidly. Unfortunately I didn't get any decent photo of it then but hopefully in the future I will.