*WAITING IN THE WINGS


*WAITING IN THE WINGS (Stamile, P.) TET 970-B  (Inky Fingers x Tetra Snooks Harville Sdlg. SC102)  32” ERe. nofr. emo. ev.  25-30 buds. uf crispate/cascade.  Thank you Kevin Walek for the wonderful name.  Kevin and I were looking at the spiders like WEB BROWSER and SKINNY DIPPING and he said, “Look at this one waiting in the wings.”  As you can see it became the perfect name.  With a spider ratio of 3.8:1 WAITING IN THE WINGS doesn’t qualify as even a spider variant but to my eye (and Grace’s, too!) this is my pick of this year’s ufs and spiders.  Great crispate form with enough lifting to give a sense of cascading.  Great clear color with a hint of rose in an otherwise true purple.  Fabulous scapes, great color, great form, it has it all.  It also brings in Snooks Harville’s seedling SC102, an incredibly beautiful and twisted red and a hard dormant into the gene pool.  About the only thing missing, in my mind, is it is not fragrant.  Our favorite.  Easily fertile both ways…………………….$100.00