From http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/gqt/fshe...heetsq6.shtml:






Question from Pauline Alsop: Why did one of my bluebells turn pink
this year? I transplanted them 3 years ago and they've always been blue.

Bunny: There's a general consensus of opinion that if you plant them
upside down they will change colour. Maybe a squirrel dug it up, turned it
upside down, and pushed it back in the wrong way!

Anne: In natural populations you do get the odd pink or white
bluebell, and I think this one of yours has always been pink, it's just that
it happened to flower this year. It may have arisen from seed, or
vegetatively by bulbill. I don't think it has changed colour, it is just a
natural thing that bluebells will do.

Pippa: Earlier this year in the woods near my home there was a
definite sudden incidence of white bluebells. I've known those woods quite
well now for six years and I've not seen a single white one before, and I'm
sure it's just a case of seedlings arising. They can be pollinated by all
sorts of other bluebells from other areas, and as Anne says, there is a
tendency for them to do that sometimes and I think pink is just another
variation.



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"Sacha" wrote in message
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This year we have one clump of pink bluebells when we have never had any
before, anywhere. Does anyone know how this happens?

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