A well intended neighbor wanted to give me some established cuttings to a flowering plant.
A plant I'm familiar with but don't keep. My Grandmother's garden had the typical deep butter
yellow colored ones that was quite healthy and required frequent pruning, very happy plant.
Although this neighbor couldn't find a photo of the plant in bloom and described said color.
Fast forward months that it tool my cuttings to settle in and three of the seven cuttings took
hold after some false starts, hence the remaining winners of the cuttings lottery. About a week
and a half ago, to my surprise and amazement there are three blossoms buds showing some
color. While one can't always tell from the bud stage to what the color will be, this color will
definitely be one of these new hybrids, still stoked with anticipation and curiosity.
Exhibit 'A'
Potentially a making of a beautiful entry to my plant kingdom. Except the red spectrum shown
above is not what my eye perceives. My mind is racing as to what could be the issue among many.
First time bloom in the midst of our high summer and the leaves looking a bit pail, not enough sun,
poor nutrients, on and on.
A very distinct reach, needing it's fix of golden sunshine so it can do it's best
in case it might be lacking in it's other necessary basic requirements. I need more sun please.
Again this salmon color represented here is not the color I saw with my discerning eyes.
A couple days later the final reveal in all it's glory and giving it's all. Hopefully
my pollinators can get what need from this specimen and leave it at that, ha!
The gig is up, I already spilled the beans about your photogenic red tones and I'm being
generous and needless to say a wee bit disappointed. Had I seen this in the garden section and
our big box stores, I would not have even give it a second glance let alone a thought in my head.
What's the next thing that I do.
Exhibit 'B'
I took some saturation out of this photo that comes a bit more closer to what I see and if you add
some brown tones this would be spot on. I will get to observe this specimen as millions do when
they insist in having cut flowers in the house, which I'm not a fan of when I live a gardener's
paradise.
I am hopeful, so just trimmed back this offensive and not appealing to my
ideal of vegetative beauty to give it a second chance and who knows, it might even change it's
spots or mimic that legendary horse of a different color and surprise me or not.
Ah , the wonderful world of gardening.
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