Small, semi-double, narrowly bell-shaped, lilac flowers, sometimes with irregular splashes of very pale yellow-green to mid-green (particularly along margins) fading with age. Staminodes opening white, maturing sepal-like, up to 5 cm long. Stamens moderately numerous, hairy; filaments and connectives very pale yellow-green; anthers pale yellow. Named after a deceased friend of the raiser, a colleague from the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir.

Group:	Atragene group
Approximate height:  The heights given here are for guidance only. Much depends on the growing conditions of individual specimens.	2.0 - 2.5 metres
Flowering period(s):  Warning: the months here are approximate for the northern hemisphere: users south of the equator should add approximately 6 months so that July becomes January etc.	Mar Apr May
Pruning:	No pruning (Group 1)
Raised by:	K Black
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Date raised:  r=raised s=selected f=first flowered n=named i=introduced b=before c=about	r2015 n2019
Parentage:  (s) = seed parent	'Willy' open-pollinated (s) x (possibly x 'Broughton Bride')
Further detail:	Flower diameter: 7cm Tepals: 4; 7cm long x 2 cm wide, narrowly elliptic, pubescent (especially outside), gappy, with slightly undulate margins, very long-pointed with aristate apex, tip slightly recurved