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Mail order - misleading pics
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| JohnOGroats 2005-07-27, 5:21 am |
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I ordered some beautiful blue geraniums from a website displaying pics.
Now that I have the cuttings and they are in flower they are pink.
If they are the correct plant they should be clones of the pic! Anyone
similar experiences?
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JohnOGroats
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| martin 2005-07-27, 6:21 am |
| On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:54:47 +0000, JohnOGroats
<JohnOGroats.1stjjz@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote:
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>I ordered some beautiful blue geraniums from a website displaying pics.
>Now that I have the cuttings and they are in flower they are pink.
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>If they are the correct plant they should be clones of the pic! Anyone
>similar experiences?
Yes twice with seeds. If you complain you get a replacement packet.
It doesn't solve the current problem of all the nasturtiums that are
yellow when they should have been red.
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Martin
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| martin 2005-07-27, 8:21 am |
| On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:03:16 +0200, martin <me@privacy.net> wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 06:54:47 +0000, JohnOGroats
><JohnOGroats.1stjjz@gardenbanter.co.uk> wrote:
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>Yes twice with seeds. If you complain you get a replacement packet.
>It doesn't solve the current problem of all the nasturtiums that are
>yellow when they should have been red.
Seed packets were from Thomson and Morgan.
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Martin
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| Chris French and Helen Johnson 2005-07-27, 5:21 pm |
| In message <JohnOGroats.1stjjz@gardenbanter.co.uk>, JohnOGroats
<JohnOGroats.1stjjz@gardenbanter.co.uk> writes
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>I ordered some beautiful blue geraniums from a website displaying pics.
>Now that I have the cuttings and they are in flower they are pink.
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Most likely there was some mistake and the wrong ones were supplied
somehow.
What's the big deal - other than it being annoying - but these things
happen. Complain to the suppliers, I'm sure they will refund or supply
replacements
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Chris French
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| Stewart Robert Hinsley 2005-07-28, 3:21 pm |
| In message <JohnOGroats.1stjjz@gardenbanter.co.uk>, JohnOGroats
<JohnOGroats.1stjjz@gardenbanter.co.uk> writes
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>I ordered some beautiful blue geraniums from a website displaying pics.
>Now that I have the cuttings and they are in flower they are pink.
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>If they are the correct plant they should be clones of the pic! Anyone
>similar experiences?
There's a few more or less above board reasons why catalogue photographs
don't match the plants. Firstly, colour constancy is a problem with
photographs - the colour the camera produces doesn't match reality - and
region between blue and pink is one of the problematical areas in my
experience. Secondly, if a photograph of the relevant cultivar isn't
available they may use a photograph of a related plant - I recently
bought a Hibiscus syriacus 'Marina', where the label was a single blue
(probably 'Oiseau Blue'), but the plant is a double purple. I'm quite
happy to discover that 'Marina' isn't someone selling 'Oiseau Bleu'
under a different name. I also came across a nursery using up old labels
of one cultivar on another cultivar (on the grounds that the customers
don't care about this fiddling distinctions).
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>JohnOGroats
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Stewart Robert Hinsley
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