ALL THAT GLITTERS (McAllister, 1992) OGB  

The name? ". . . is not gold." But this one certainly looks the part. The on-going debate in the garden was actually whether the sparkling yellow-gold of the falls looked more like real gold dust or "fool's gold" - but at any rate the clear, bright yellow gold of this flower cried out for some type of descriptive name. Whether it's real gold or fool's gold, it certainly glitters.

Ivory standards, softly veined yellow. Apricot-yellow falls blushed orange-rust and marked with more distinct rust veins in the throat. Orange-rust beard. Promise to Elizabeth X Koko Knoll. Proven fertile halfbred, but I have nothing to report about its offspring because all of the early crosses I made with it involved my yellow lines, which were relatively low priority when it came to allocating space in seedling beds so I gave its seeds away. As the name suggests, the flower seems to be sprinkled with gold dust, so I do want to try it with some of the other "sparkly" ones like Rhinestone Cowgirl.