So much hype has been made about the unusual coloring of this one, but for me it’s a rather ordinary reddish-pink, indistinguishable from the ubiquitous Double Knock Out. Like many Knock Outs and all plastic plants, Benjamin Britten also has no discernable scent. There the similarity ends, since Knock Out spends its energy producing flowers, while Benjamin only makes octopus canes. It produces many blind basal breaks, which if trained horizontally, will in turn produce a prodigious number of blind laterals. Perhaps it was named for the wrong historical figure…Benjamin Britten is not known for ‘blind leading the blind’, that would be Helen Keller.

As of 2022 Benjamin Britten has not been patented in the US. It grows fairly well own root in the wet PNW in the ground, not so well in a pot. I have tried to propagate it, but have not succeeded yet.