Morning Eye Candy: First Lady

Posted in Around the Garden, Photography on March 25 2012, by Matt Newman

A sliver of trivia: this flowering cherry hybrid was developed at the U.S. National Arboretum in D.C. by the prolific Dr. Donald Egolf, back in 1982. However, it wasn’t until 2003 that ‘First Lady’ made its way onto the horticulture scene at large. It boasts the abundant flowers and hardiness of the mother plant, ‘Okame,’ with the coloration of its father, the Taiwan flowering cherry (P. campanulata).

I suppose it also technically shares its birthday with Tron, Bladerunner, and Conan the Barbarian. It’s not like I was going to give you a dossier without a few oddball connections tacked on.

Prunus ‘First Lady’ — Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen