What are your Top 5 favourite Dwarf project 2020?

MissTee · 2 Weeks Ago

Looking back over the past six or seven years, these are my results from the DTP.

*=have grown more than once/repeat favourites
✔️=will grow again in the future

Adelaide Festival
Arctic Rose
Beauty King
Blazing Beauty
Boronia
Brandy Fred
Emerald Giant
Egypt Yellow
*Franklin County
Kelly Green
*Lemon Ice
*Mary’s Cherry
✔️Pink Passion
*Rosella Purple
*Russian Swirl
*Scarlet Heart
✔️Sleeping Lady
✔️Snakebite
Sweet Scarlet
XTasmanian Chocolate (not true-to-type)
✔️Uluru Ochre
✔️Velvet Night (not true-to-type, maybe Kookaburra Cackle?)
Whereokwhai
XWild Fred (not true-to-type)

Related (project parents)
*New Big Dwarf (late variety though)
Roza Vetrov - new this year.

2024 - New - in progress
Chocolate Heartthrob
Tanunda Red
Wild Fred
Orange Cream
Willa’s Cariboo Rose
Big Green Dwarf
Eagle Smiley Yellow

My Top 5 so far:
1. Scarlet Heart
2. Mary’s Cherry
3. Snakebite
4. Russian Swirl
5. Franklin County
Honourable mention: Lemon Ice

Rankings are based on taste and production and relative earliness since I am in a zone 4-5 garden. Most varieties grown had great taste, but either produced poorly or too late for my garden. So your mileage may vary.

2 Weeks Ago	#40
MissTee Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2020 Location: Zone 4-5, Ontario Posts: 4	Looking back over the past six or seven years, these are my results from the DTP. =have grown more than once/repeat favourites ✔️=will grow again in the future Adelaide Festival Arctic Rose Beauty King Blazing Beauty Boronia Brandy Fred Emerald Giant Egypt Yellow Franklin County Kelly Green Lemon Ice Mary’s Cherry ✔️Pink Passion Rosella Purple Russian Swirl Scarlet Heart ✔️Sleeping Lady ✔️Snakebite Sweet Scarlet XTasmanian Chocolate (not true-to-type) ✔️Uluru Ochre ✔️Velvet Night (not true-to-type, maybe Kookaburra Cackle?) Whereokwhai XWild Fred (not true-to-type) Related (project parents) New Big Dwarf (late variety though) Roza Vetrov - new this year. 2024 - New - in progress Chocolate Heartthrob Tanunda Red Wild Fred Orange Cream Willa’s Cariboo Rose Big Green Dwarf Eagle Smiley Yellow My Top 5 so far: 1. Scarlet Heart 2. Mary’s Cherry 3. Snakebite 4. Russian Swirl 5. Franklin County Honourable mention: Lemon Ice Rankings are based on taste and production and relative earliness since I am in a zone 4-5 garden. Most varieties grown had great taste, but either produced poorly or too late for my garden. So your mileage may vary.