Perennial pea, lily of the Nile and dahlia displayed aberration of color earlier and started a trend.

1. Eriocapitella hupehensis, Japanese anemone is enviable in other gardens. I neglect to remember that a minor bit of it survives in one of our landscapes. I ignore it because it is such a grungy almost grayish white without enough blush to be pink. I should see how it blooms now and then relocate it to a better situation where it might develop better color.

2. Hypoestes phyllostachya, polka dot plant is typically spotty with either white or pink. Two of seventy-two cell pack plugs exhibited this darker pinkish red. I got copies of it to perhaps grow as houseplants, at least until they will be happy in the garden next spring.

3. Chrysanthemum X morifolium, florist’s chrysanthemum seems to change color like a dahlia that I got a picture of last week. I thought that it bloomed orange last year, which was a surprise after it bloomed rusty red two years ago. I must not remember accurately.

4. Phlox paniculata, garden phlox has bloomed exclusively white since it arrived here by unknown means a few years ago. Although I have been very pleased with its white color, and white happens to be my favorite color, I am also pleased with this new pink variant.

5. Amaryllis belladonna, naked lady did the opposite. It had always bloomed exclusively bright pink. Then, I found and isolated a few bulbs of a white blooming variant last year. An associate found two more in the same location this year. I like it much more in white!

6. Rhody is canine so lacks perception of red, which is the basis of these off colors. Most have more than they should, and one has none. Rhody sees them only as shades of gray.

This is the link for Six on Saturday, for anyone else who would like to participate: https://thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/six-on-saturday-a-participant-guide/

8 thoughts on “Six on Saturday: Off Color

    1. White is my favorite color; and I would likely relocate only white to my own garden; but at work, I consider what others enjoy, and the pink is a nice variant. I hope that it does not displace the white though.

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  1. I planted out all the Amaryllis I grew from the seed you sent me on the allotment I’m giving up on. I dug some up and put them in a pot but the thought that in amongst them might be a white flowered form makes me wonder if I shouldn’t go and retrieve the rest. I’ve never seen a white one and it looks beautiful, a bit more refined than the usual candy pink.

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    1. The species seems to be naturalized in some areas here. (It does not naturalize far from where intentionally planted.) Of all the countless blooms that I have observed, these few, which are likely all from the same original bulb, are the only white flowers that I have ever observed outside of catalogues.

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