In the North during cold weather this cultivar blooms with a very visible halo and darker colors overall. As it warms up the halo disappears. Here in North Carolina it hardly ever blooms with a halo and the color is much lighter. You can see the difference in the alternate photo displayed here. This is a heavily diamond dusted cultivar that has extremely tight ruffling on all segments. We use it heavily here in our gardens in an “edge-with-no-eye” program with excellent results. Easily fertile both ways.