color changes
- Subject: color changes
- From: N* L*
- Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2001 12:13:31 -0600
Okay folks, I'm sure one of the experts has an explanation for this, but it
seems really bizarre to me...
Last spring, when we were preparing for my daughter's wedding, she brought
me some potted flowers that she thought would be good colors to use. One of
these was a mum (a florist mum, since it was blooming in May?). It had
large double flowers of the palest yellow, almost white. In fact, we used
several of them in her bouquet. She wanted to dry her bouquet to preserve
it, but some of the flowers were falling apart, so I decided to recreate it.
However, the mum had stopped blooming by then. I cut it back, hoping to
force some new flowers.
Well, I was looking out my window a couple of weeks ago, and wondered what
in the world was blooming. When I investigated, it was that mum, still in
the pot in which it was purchased, with BRIGHT pink single blossoms. What
gives? I know discount florist mums can't be grafted, and I know it's the
same plant, because it's still in the same place, in the original
pot...Unless of course a garden fairly switched it at some point.
Anyone know how this can happen?
Nancy Lowe, puzzled in Arkansas (where we are still picking tomatoes, but
may get a real frost this week)
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