When I was younger we had to use fountain pens at school and found that a white carnation put in water with some blue Quink Ink would turn the veins blue within a day. It fascinated me.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
The problem with the seeds for blue strawberries, rainbow roses and so on isn't just that the buyer won't get what they expected, but also (and I think more serious) they might get something that's invasive like the next skunk cabbage or japanese knotweed.
Dyed cut flowers aren't really to my taste but at least they don't pretend to be anything else. Dyed growing orchids, painted heathers etc are dubious unless clearly labelled that new growth/flowers won't come back like that.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I'll admit to buying seeds of unusual coloured veg this year, such as purple carrots in a quest to eat 'a rainbow' as it's supposed to be more nutritious. It's just a fascination, and something to surprise my OH when a purple carrot is put on his dinner plate.
Carrots were originally purple then someone raised an orange one and the rest is history. Rainbow carrots are going back in time to how they used to be
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I think the 3-coloured buddleias are actually three different plants in one pot. Probably not going to be very healthy in the long term. Probably one would dominate after a few years.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Hmmm ..... I wonder if it's possible to graft three different coloured buddleia scions onto one rootstock for a tricoloured result ? If I didn't detest buddleias so vehemently I might be tempted to give it a go. I don't detest it in other people's gardens, by the way, just never again in ours !
When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
Yes, there are plants for sale with 5 colours of buddleia on a tree.
Did see a tree in Spain growing in a field with lemon, nectarine, orange, and kumquat fruiting on its branches. It was growing on the edge of a farmer's orange groves, think he must have got fed up one day with his citrus groves and decided to grow something 'entertaining'.
These seeds come with an amazing array of manipulated colours and fruit but the fact people have to grow them on for so long means the scammers get away with it. The companies constantly change their accounts and the host site couldn't care less because they make their money.
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It fascinated me.
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Rainbow carrots are going back in time to how they used to be
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
Did see a tree in Spain growing in a field with lemon, nectarine, orange, and kumquat fruiting on its branches. It was growing on the edge of a farmer's orange groves, think he must have got fed up one day with his citrus groves and decided to grow something 'entertaining'.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.