Variété

Rhubarbe Hawkes’ Champagne

A traditional variety developed by Edward Hawke in the 1850’s it has a sweet flavour and good colour, ideal for crumbles, jams and other dishes. This early to mid-season variety is reliable as an outdoor rhubarb as well as for forcing.

Couleur pétiole : Rouge vif
Origine : Angleterre
Année : 1850
Développer par : Probablement par un jardinier du marché londonien appelé Edward Hawkes.

Citations portant sur la Rhubarbe Hawkes’ Champagne

Rhubarb Red Champagne is a very close relative of Hawkes’ Champagne, another long- cultivated variety first introduced in the 1850s, probably by a London market gardener called Edward Hawkes.
Source : Rhubarb, rhubarb: why Victoria still reigns supreme, www.irishtimes.com, 2010

Hawke’s Champagne, briskly flavoured, red all through the stem; the earliest for forcing or outside culture. We were awarded F.C.C., R.H.S., for this variety ; scarce.
Source : Catalogue of fruit trees cultivated by George Bunyard & Co., Royal Nurseries, Maidstone, 1898-1899, 1898

The stalks are of a deep blood-red, rich, free from filament. Its defect is a want'of productiveness and vigor suitable to the garden of the amateur. Type of Bucks.
Source : The Gardener's monthly and horticultural advertiser, Vol3 No1, 1861, 1861

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