So Delighted Hands solved my peony mystery for me… it’s most likley the PH in my soil that’s making my peonies lighter than Dad’s.
But now there’s other weird things going on in the garden….
The Beard Tongue, which has always been pink… suddenly started blooming BLUE!
At the same time that there were pink blooms on the plant!
And that pretty creamy Columbine?
Well now we’ve got separate white and yellow blooms – on the SAME plant!
And my beautiful purpley Ebb Tide rose…
Is no longer purple!!!
Seriously? Can you even believe that’s the same rose????
Anything weird happening in your garden?
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It’s soil chemistry that’s behind all the colour shifts I’d think. Well except the Columbine – they just do that sort of thing.
I bought a gorgeous blue hydrangea from a garden centre that never bloomed blue for me again. Made me a bit crazy. Never again. Evergreens are so much better behaved… well except those pesky variegated ones that tend to revert to single colour.
Never mind, it’s all beautiful!
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No , but your color changes are something new to me! The only weird thing in my garden are the teeny tiny weird red bugs that seem to run everywhere. THey gross me out
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I know a number of plants carry the genes (or whatever) for a number of different colors (Sweet William is one of those flowering plants…there are tons others). and, yes, soil chemistry has something to do with it too. Just think of it as getting double for your money – lol.
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I know my Iceland poppies do that. But I had no idea the beard tongue would.
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Wow….that would just be freaking me out.
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Embrace the variety or lime everything to cause it to be equal soil types! lol
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Gardening! ALWAYS a surprise!
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That’s kinda fun, not knowing what color you’ll have each season…like a treasure hunt! The only thing happening in our garden is actually in our neighbor’s garden; they’ve gone away on an extended holiday, leaving their cherry tree to fruit by itself…but we are picking as much fruit as we can! Yum!
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