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rare blue Bougainvillea

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888
    Bouganvillea ebay conscamsis
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,503
    I nearly Googled conscamsis 😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888
    B3 said:
    I nearly Googled conscamsis 😊
    It's a bi-generic hybrid between the Bouganvillea con and scam varieties.  ;)
    Funnily there's always a demand for them.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,141
    I blame the marketing 🙄 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888
    Dovefromabove said:
    I blame the marketing 🙄 
    I blame ,in part, gullible consumerism.
    There's a good reason why none of us have seen blue strawberries, or rainbow coloured roses.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,141
    edited October 2019
    Yes, you and I know, because we’ve learned, that blue strawberries are very unlikely.

    But we can’t really blame the gullible.  Folks who have no real knowledge of plants and who have grown up believing (‘cos that’s what they’ve been told) that with science anything is possible, have no basis on which to form their opinions ... it’s what the scamming marketers count on and why they advertise where they do ... they don’t try to sell to readers of GW and The Garden cos we have the basic knowledge that leads us to question their spiel 🙄 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888
    Dovefromabove said:
    Yes, you and I know, because we’ve learned, that blue strawberries are very unlikely.

    But we can’t really blame the gullible.  Folks who have no real knowledge of plants and who have grown up believing (‘cos that’s what they’ve been told) that with science anything is possible, have no basis on which to form their opinions ... it’s what the scamming marketers count on and why they advertise where they do ... they don’t try to sell to readers of GW and The Garden cos we have the basic knowledge that leads us to question their spiel 🙄 

    I agree, but they have the internet, they can do some research. 
    That old line :" if something seems too good to be true, it probably isn't" 
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,503
    What is the attraction with 'rare blue' flowers -daffodils, roses etc.  etc?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,503
    Is not isn't😉
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,141
    But they don’t know it’s too good to be true ... how would they?
    Just because they’ve not seen it before? 
    There’s stuff they’ve never seen before on David Attenborough’s progs every day ... if those things exist why not blue strawberries?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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