Ranunculus - La Belle Pastel

One of my absolute favourite ranunculus varieties! Colours lean from pale true pastels to some brighter mid-colours in shades from cream, yellow, apricot, pink & magenta. It has the most unique colouring as unlike most ranunc varieties we grow which tend to have smoother colouring (or clearly definited picotee/striato), the La Belle Pastel has the most amazing depth to its colouring. The flowers are almost dusted in two layers of similar colours. They also just keep getting better, and better as they age, slowly fading and exposing their black centres at the very end.

I'm probably not doing them justice in my explanation, and they often photograph brighter than they feel in real life, so they are definitely one of those flowers that need to be seen in person to fully appreciate how uniquely special they are.

Anyways the breeder very sadly discontinued this variety a few years ago (the La Belle Series is naturally smaller than the Amandine series which is where they are currently focusing their breeding efforts on). I thankfully was able to order some of the very last seeds they had available and have slowly grown them out and saved corms for the last few years, and excitingly we have some corms to spare this year!

As La Belle Pastel is a mix it is a lucky dip which specific colour from the mix each plant will be.