Those were nice flowers. I second the motion , why no reds?????? I have reds ..........Tkhooper sent me zinnias red .........I really like them. Ps 4oclocks are in full bloom here in zone 5 ......Will be till frost.
I think I've told the story... when I was little I had a coloring book with a picture of a train. First I colored it one color - not sure if it was red or green, but didn't like it, so I colored over that with the other color - either red or green. Know what those two colors look like mixed together??? VOMIT!
Ever since then, I don't like red and green together - ergo... no RED flowers! Well... only a few small ones for my hummers!
Red is my favorite color! I tend to do all different colors though, my gardens are just a mish mosh of things thrown together, crammed wherever I can get them. I like the victorian "full" look.
One cool thing was I had black Hollyhocks this year courtesy of Sheri....very weird having black flowers. Athena said, ewww why do you have black flowers!
I know some people, who shall remain nameless Lynne, don't like red, but I think this red with speckled white balsam Loz sent me and colea is so pretty. I think Loz called it balsam. We always called them touch me nots because the seed pod will pop open.
I don't mind that red, Sheri, especially with the white speckles. It's the very bright solid reds that usually do me in, though I am really liking my pineapple sage this year!
do you have a picture of your pineapple sage? I don't know what it looks like. That speckled red is very pretty. I've taken bunches of pictures of it because it's so lovely.
that's the only blooms that has looked like that. Wierd. I'll send you seeds from that particular plant when I see some but I'm not sure if they'll turn out that color. All the others are colored like the 2nd picture.
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