ABBOTSLEIGH 1983

Named for a young ladies’ college on Sydney’s North Shore ‘ Abbotsleigh’. Was propagated for the Abbotsleigh Centenary celebrations in 1985 under the patronage of Mr Peter Duly, then Chairman of the Abbotsleigh Council.

This beautiful new variant grew from a chance seedling in the garden of Cecil Blumenthal in St Ives. Miss Ruth Hirst, fifth generation Headmistress of Abbotsleigh, encouraged the girls to have “faith in little things”.

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