The pink ones can certainly have a creamy tinge early on [as in that recent pic] - like lots of plants do before developing their full colour, but that white one is too white for the stage it's at to turn pink. Not sure I understand your post @madpenguin. Why wouldn't it have been allowed to flower? These things happen - ie mislabelling, or as I said earlier - people take labels out to read them and don't put them back in the right pot, especially if some pots have no label at all. I've seen that situation frequently. @ren.b - I think I'd be taking that white one back to be replaced or refunded, unless you're happy to keep it. Hopefully, if you have the receipt, it's easy enough to show that you bought two plants, and that one isn't what's on the label.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
What I meant by 'not being allowed to flower' is that I think some breeders grow the plants and take of flowering stems etc to bulk up the main plant for sale so the colour is not seen. I may of course be completely wrong!!!!
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
Ah - I see. I doubt that would need to be the case with yarrows, but I expect that would still come down to wrong labelling from the start.
The label may have been correct during its cultivation in a large nursery somewhere but the plant itself was a 'throwback' that was not allowed to flower. The yarrow in my lawn is cut numerous times and most not allowed to flower.
.....could just be the wrong label though!
“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.” - Bernard Cornwell-Death of Kings
Could it be that the white one is a throwback? If it had not been allowed to flower who would have noticed?
Lol - I had a vision of a nursery employee standing over the plant with a big stick shouting 'you are NOT allowed to flower'!! Is that even possible? Is that what 'pinching' is where you pinch out buds to make a plant bushier? I found a good article about the difference between pinching & deadheading - must actually read it. xx
They're quite adaptable, but clay can be far too heavy for them if you're in a wetter area, so definitely keep improving the soil structure if that's the case. I've lost Achilleas before because of that.
You wouldn't believe the bricks we found in this border, the house builders just chucked rubble all round the house and then added topsoil - my back is killing me just digging out about 3ft wide. I think it's clay - is it orange? It's like pockets of it. It's been raining for days on end here (West Yorkshire) - got 9 plants to get in and have to keep running in and out when it stops.
Yes - clay can be orange or blue. Welcome to my world Builders are notorious for 'dumping and covering' I'm afraid. Been there. Incidentally, I also don't think that's wild yarrow as per @Dovefromabove's post. There are a few cultivated whites White Beauty, White Queen etc. although A. ptarmica 'The Pearl' is completely different again - just to complicate things. Re pinching out etc - I doubt growers would bother with that, other than when plants were tiny. They sell on when plants are small but established, so it would only be when plants hadn't sold and were a bit leggy, and then needed delivered or held in stock for a long time, that they would cut them back and move into bigger pots. Deadheading is different from pinching out, as it happens after flowering not before.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Not sure I understand your post @madpenguin. Why wouldn't it have been allowed to flower?
These things happen - ie mislabelling, or as I said earlier - people take labels out to read them and don't put them back in the right pot, especially if some pots have no label at all. I've seen that situation frequently.
@ren.b - I think I'd be taking that white one back to be replaced or refunded, unless you're happy to keep it. Hopefully, if you have the receipt, it's easy enough to show that you bought two plants, and that one isn't what's on the label.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I may of course be completely wrong!!!!
I doubt that would need to be the case with yarrows, but I expect that would still come down to wrong labelling from the start.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
The yarrow in my lawn is cut numerous times and most not allowed to flower.
.....could just be the wrong label though!
Lol - I had a vision of a nursery employee standing over the plant with a big stick shouting 'you are NOT allowed to flower'!! Is that even possible? Is that what 'pinching' is where you pinch out buds to make a plant bushier? I found a good article about the difference between pinching & deadheading - must actually read it. xx
Builders are notorious for 'dumping and covering' I'm afraid. Been there.
Incidentally, I also don't think that's wild yarrow as per @Dovefromabove's post. There are a few cultivated whites White Beauty, White Queen etc. although A. ptarmica 'The Pearl' is completely different again - just to complicate things.
Re pinching out etc - I doubt growers would bother with that, other than when plants were tiny. They sell on when plants are small but established, so it would only be when plants hadn't sold and were a bit leggy, and then needed delivered or held in stock for a long time, that they would cut them back and move into bigger pots.
Deadheading is different from pinching out, as it happens after flowering not before.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...