Gardena

One with the orange center is sometimes called GARDENA and the one with the yellow center is sometimes called ROLLING HILLS or Blush Pink, which has a gardenia scent and a yellow center. Gardena has a distinct lilac scent and orange heart. Named by George Crouchet, in mid90s for the city in So Calif where he found the plant growing. It is a very common variety in Gardena gardens. Bill Spurgeon’s wife named their Gardena seedling Psycho because it grows madly, seems to be the last to lose leaves and stop flowering, often in February, when all others were long dormant. Good graft host, great fragrance. Reliable bloomer. Easy/fast rooter, thick branching, compact growth, fast grower, generous bloomer, hearty. Gardena and Blush Pink (Rolling Hills,) is often confused online. Both have strong scents, but they differ. Adding to confusion, cool weather Gardena's eye can sometimes look less like orangey-yellow and more like yellow. In warm weather, easier to distinguish between the two. Difference in the small eye and the back stripe, can be seen. Gardena has a more solid, bright red back stripe. Sets seed.