fully double
Flower heads with multiple rows of ray florets; the disc florets are immature and completely covered by the central rays when the flower is at its prime stage.
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Choices include fully double flowers less than an inch wide on nearly 2-foot-tall varieties such as 'Lilliput Mix', or on miniature varieties such as 6- to 10-inch-tall 'Thumbelina Mix'.
Large, fully double pink are suffused with salmon and coral, with lighter tones on the reverse side of the petals. The rose climbs to 10 or 12 feet, with four-inch-wide flowers that emit a spicy, clove fragrance. This is a repeat bloomer.
Flowers are fully double with densely filled petals that look almost beaded and are available in 12 sparking colors.
Zinnia 'Zahara Double Cherry' features fully double, 2 ½-inch, cherry-red flowers that bloom profusely during the warm growing season.
Its nodding, fully double flowers in moonlight shades of white and creamy yellow spill a complex and sophisticated fragrance from the tips of slender canes.
An occasional single bloom might find its way into the semi to fully double flowers of Queen Red Lime (Zinnia elegans), making the mix of colors even more interesting.
-- . This name probably refers to the fully double, many-petalled flowers, which are shaped rather like a cabbage. The flowers are mid pink and heavily perfumed.
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The 'Akita' dahlia, classified as a novelty fully double, resembles a chrysanthemum with white tips.
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(Rosa 'Helmut Schmidt' ) offers rounded, fully double yellow flowers that open from urn-shaped buds poised on an upright, well-branched plant. It grows 5 feet tall and 2 feet wide. Zones 5-9
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Lush and showy, Peony-Flowered Tulips have bowl-shaped, fully double large blooms. They may be a single color, or vividly marked with stripes, flames, feathers, or colored margins.
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There are numerous variations on this theme, including forms with single, semi-double, or fully double flowers in colors ranging from bright orange to lemon yellow to creamy parchment.
Dianthus 'Doris'
Dianthus 'Dynasty'
Dianthus 'Mrs Sinkins'
Dianthus 'Bovey Belle' - fully double, bright magenta flowers
Dianthus 'Monica Wyatt' - very fragrant, double flowers in blush pink. Very free flowering ...
A flower with more than the usual number of petals displayed by the wild species. A flower that displays a mass of petals may be called fully double; ...
Zinnia 'Zinnita Formula Mix' * At 6-8 inches, 'Zinnita' is ideally suited for annual borders and mixed containers. The abundance of 1.5- to 2-inch fully double flowers will brighten any sunny location.
Participants enter more than 1,000 dahlias, in categories that range from seedlings to floral arrangements. In 2004, the brothers won the novelty double category (dahlias with a fully double center) for a variety called 'Shinkyoku.' ...
The cultivar 'Golden Glow' is a better option with its fully double all-yellow flower heads. However, it spreads quickly by runners and is a better candidate for a meadow than a border, where it can become a bit of a thug.
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