Sweet Love

Sweet Love is a European trade variety rather than an ADS-registered one. It is carried by British and Dutch sellers alongside American farms, and across more than fifteen pages checked, not one states a classification number, hybridizer, or introduction year; Dreamland Flower Farm goes so far as to print the introduction year as unknown. That absence is the finding rather than a gap in the research, and the fields are left empty here accordingly. Plenty of good garden plants reach American gardens this way, through the bulb trade instead of the show bench, and they simply never acquire the paperwork.

Sweet Love is a soft pink decorative that most sellers put in the 4 to 5 inch range, though reports run from 3 to 6, and Heirloom Soul is alone in describing a strong confident form. Height is where the sources part company hardest: Dreamland says 4 feet, Sunset View up to 5, and Heirloom Soul 60 to 72 inches, which is a difference between a plant you can reach over and one you cannot. Plan for tall, stake early, and pinch at 12 inches. The color sits in the useful blush range that wedding work keeps demanding, with enough lavender in it to stop it reading as a flat pink. Dreamland rates it a good tuber maker, which is the one production figure any source offers.