True Blue, My Ass
I bought the Dianthus amurensis 'Siberian Blues' seeds from Park's. They were described as "the closest to a true blue dianthus!" Some of my first-year plants have bloomed and they are absolutely not blue. They are mauve. They are exactly that shade of lavender-pink that I detest in the garden. To add insult to injury, they aren't even fragrant. Anyone want to swap?
posted by Kasmira at 22.7.06
7 Comments:
could they be like hydrangeas, where the blueness or pinkness depends on the ph level of your soil? there are things you can add to your soil to make your hydrangeas more blue--maybe adding the same thing would make your dianthus more blue. i'm sure a home-improvement store garden-shop person could tell you in a flash what to add, but googling tells me that if you add coffee grounds, egg shells, or ground-up citrus peels, this will lower the soil's ph and make hydrangeas bluer. maybe it'll work :)
"... closest to a true blue Dianthus." Ah, that's the key word. There is no true blue Dianthus. It's all relative. Like a short basketball player. Or an open-minded fundamentalist.
Myself, I can't think of a color I would not at least find "interesting" in a flower. I take magenta as a challenge. But there's only so much space and time for the garden, and I do have my favorites, blues among them.
PS: I miss your old profile photo!
Uh, swap? Not after the way you described it! It is, by the way, a pretty flower, regardless of not being blue.
Ha! No thanks. I was looking that "true blue" myself. Thanks for the warning!
I'd write to Park Seeds and send a photo. Maybe you'll get an answer and hopefully some free seeds. Doesn't hurt and you have a great way with words. (I'd mention you have a gardening blog too).
Looks pink to me!
I have to say that I am glad that it happens to other people.
I bought a plant last year that was supposed to be a stokes aster, it isn't---but don't know what it is! And, I hate to ask someone. I have been looking up lavender blue plants on the internet, and that could take forever.
That's not lavender-pink, that's Garden-of-Eden! Thalassa Cruso called it that because she figured that's what color all plants originally were. Yeah, I hate it too.
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