Weatherball 90 – European form

Weatherball 90 – European Form.  Lins.  1962.  Lactiflora cultivar.  Pink novelty boasts a large bomb of petals of blush pink, cream and a touch of yellow in the collar.  Guard petals are blush pink.  The overall flower color is quite variable and appealing.  Stems are willowy, but adequate to carry the mid sized blooms.   Good healthy foliage and good increase make this a very good garden plant.  Very unusual and much sought after.  Premium divisions ship late September to mid October.

Weatherball 90 – American Form

NOTE: 12/03/2023.  ‘Weatherball 90’  plants grown in the United States and Europe are quite different.  During early distibution of the cultivar, different plants were sent to European collectors than those in the United States.  Thus, the two cultivars share the same name and were distributed as ‘Weatherball 90’. After exhaustive research of the two cultivar forms by numerous people, definitive confirmation of which cultivar is the “true” ‘Weatherball 90 has proven fruitless.  Conflicting information in commercial/historical/cultivar descriptions and lack of detail in the registration description are not sufficient to identify the cultivar Lins originally introduced under the name ‘Weatherball 90’.  See images in gallery.