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MBN 1Gal Diplacus grandiflorus 'Ray Collett' 19650
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grandiflorus 'Ray Collett' BIG SUR MONKEYFLOWER, STICKY MONKEY FLOWER apricot flowers compact habit wild species form, Santa Lucia Mtns. my personal favorite of all the Monkeyflowers. Large apricot orange flowers with long, frilly lower petals mature to intense orange. Foliage is dense, hard and glossy against burgundy stems, growth habit is mostly erect but very compact. This unnamed seedling was the only one of a few I got from UCSC to survive our wholesale growing environment. In fact it's thrived here, as well as in the ground at my mostly neglected property. It brings a very compact habit, those famously big, deeply cut, light apricot flowers along on a surprisingly tough, resilient and forgiving plant. It isn't sticky and so doesn't collect debris, it's reasonably forgiving of rough handling, it will cuts back as nicely or probably better than the Jelly Beans and it's tough as nails either in containers or where I forgot about it in the ground. My winter-spring plantings get one settling-in watering then nothing. Often they drop their leaves by mid-summer but come back in winter, sit still the next summer then start putting on growth the third after they've reached deeper soil moisture. I've grown it in dense, sandy clay, open mineral soils and very fine, deep, powdery black topsoil with no bottom and towering introduced weeds. In all situations it's a survivor. It needed a better handle than "UCSC orange" and since this was Ray's favorite monkeyflower I've named it after him. The species under this name is as now considered to have a split distribution, Big Sur and the Feather River area. Brett Hall of UCSC says this form may represent the latter population. Sun to mostly shade but always best with a few hours of direct sunlight, probably capable of surviving without irrigation, when established, anywhere native species are found growing close by. rev 6/2019 -- From our grower's website
