Fantasia
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![245-Fantasia plant copy](https://www.saunderspeonies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/245-Fantasia-plant-copy.png)
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‘Fantasia’ has much better form than some plants with macrophylla heritage which seem to sprawl as the clumps mature. It looks fantastic in bud, produces a lot of flowers, and blooms for more than a week.
Perhaps I love this plant because of its location with two choice conifers backing it.
Cultivar: | Fantasia |
Year: | 1941 |
Seedling No: | 11557. |
Parentage: | 4B: F2 of (lactiflora 3317 X macrophylla) |
Flower: | Color: | pink (lavender tone), subtle white flares with darker veins |
Form: | single, 10 petals | |
Blooms: | Week 4 in shade, could be earlier | |
Carpels: | 2, pale, pink toned, woolly | |
Stigmas: | crimson | |
Disc: | pink, obscure | |
Stamens: | filaments dark pink at base, shading lighter, abundant | |
Plant: | Habit: | rounded bush |
Foliage color: | medium green, dark red stems | |
Foliage form: | pointed leaves, not lobed | |
Height: | 40″ in 2021 | |
Recommendation: | Highly recommended |
Availability: | Several specialty nurseries |
![326-Fantasia plant](https://www.saunderspeonies.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/326-Fantasia-plant.png)
![719-Fantasia](https://www.saunderspeonies.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/719-Fantasia.png)