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Yellow blend Tea.
Registration name: Lady Hillingdon
Exhibition name: Lady Hillingdon

Bred by Lowe & Shawyer (United Kingdom, 1910).
Introduced in Australia by Arthur Yates & Co. Ltd. in 1911 as 'Lady Hillingdon'.

Tea.  

Apricot.  Flowers deep apricot-yellow.  Strong, tea fragrance.  Large, semi-double (9-16 petals), borne mostly solitary, cluster-flowered, in small clusters bloom form.  Blooms in flushes throughout the season.  Long, pointed buds.  

Bushy, upright, well-branched.  Bronze-green foliage.  
Height of 2' to 3' (60 to 90 cm).  

USDA zone 6a through 10b.  Can be used for beds and borders, cut flower or garden.  Disease susceptibility: disease resistant.  Requires spring freeze protection (see glossary - Spring freeze protection) .  Prune dead wood.  Prune lightly or not at all.  

Triploid

Parentage is reversed in the April 8, 1911 reference.
According to a 1952 reference 'Lady Hillingdon' could be confused with 'Souvenir de Mme Boulet' and 'Souvenir de François Graindorge'. Distinction: LH is mostly found in threes, its flower stalk is without prickles, its sepals have appendages; SdMB is solitary, armed with prickles, flower stalk is silky (sericeous), its sepals are glandular, but rarely have appendages; finally, SdFG is also solitary, with darker green foliage, no silkiness on the flower stalk visible except by touching, the first internode is alwysa without prickles.