Festival 68 Parsley

A very nice flat leaf variety with an unusual parentage. During the Iron Curtain era Bulgarian scientists crossed a celery with a parsley and got plants that looked like parsley but had a richer, more pleasant flavour with subtle hints of celery. Eventually they succeeded in stabilizing the variety so it reproduces consistently by seed. More than 40 years later this unique variety is still widely grown in Europe for fresh and dried use.