Mail order - misleading pics
 

I ordered some beautiful blue geraniums from a website displaying pics. Now that I have the cuttings and they are in flower they are pink.

If they are the correct plant they should be clones of the pic! Anyone similar experiences?

In message , JohnOGroats
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I ordered some beautiful blue geraniums from a website displaying pics.
Now that I have the cuttings and they are in flower they are pink.

Most likely there was some mistake and the wrong ones were supplied
somehow.

What's the big deal - other than it being annoying - but these things
happen. Complain to the suppliers, I'm sure they will refund or supply
replacements
--
Chris French

Point is that it was a one off special order based on the colour. I have a local gardening competition in September and I was proposing to grow this one on for the competition.

If a woman ordered a blue dress and received a pink one ...?

In message , JohnOGroats
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I ordered some beautiful blue geraniums from a website displaying pics.
Now that I have the cuttings and they are in flower they are pink.

If they are the correct plant they should be clones of the pic! Anyone
similar experiences?

There's a few more or less above board reasons why catalogue photographs
don't match the plants. Firstly, colour constancy is a problem with
photographs - the colour the camera produces doesn't match reality - and
region between blue and pink is one of the problematical areas in my
experience. Secondly, if a photograph of the relevant cultivar isn't
available they may use a photograph of a related plant - I recently
bought a Hibiscus syriacus 'Marina', where the label was a single blue
(probably 'Oiseau Blue'), but the plant is a double purple. I'm quite
happy to discover that 'Marina' isn't someone selling 'Oiseau Bleu'
under a different name. I also came across a nursery using up old labels
of one cultivar on another cultivar (on the grounds that the customers
don't care about this fiddling distinctions).

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JohnOGroats

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Stewart Robert Hinsley

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Chris French and Helen Johnson Wrote:
In message , JohnOGroats
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I ordered some beautiful blue geraniums from a website displaying
pics.
Now that I have the cuttings and they are in flower they are pink.
-
Most likely there was some mistake and the wrong ones were supplied
somehow.

What's the big deal - other than it being annoying - but these things
happen. Complain to the suppliers, I'm sure they will refund or supply
replacements
--
Chris French



Point is that it was a one off special order based on the colour. I
have a local gardening competition in September and I was proposing to
grow this one on for the competition.

If a woman ordered a blue dress and received a pink one ...?


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JohnOGroats

I ordered black (purple) tulips and the flowers were the brightest red
possible. I was quite relieved when they failed to come up the following
year
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Sue
Remove the puppies to reply

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Chris French and Helen Johnson Wrote:
In message , JohnOGroats
writes-

I ordered some beautiful blue geraniums from a website displaying
pics.
Now that I have the cuttings and they are in flower they are pink.
-
Most likely there was some mistake and the wrong ones were supplied
somehow.

What's the big deal - other than it being annoying - but these things
happen. Complain to the suppliers, I'm sure they will refund or supply
replacements
--
Chris French



Point is that it was a one off special order based on the colour. I
have a local gardening competition in September and I was proposing to
grow this one on for the competition.

If a woman ordered a blue dress and received a pink one ...?

She would send it back, saying she'd been sent the wrong one, and
receive either the right one or a refund.

She wouldn't expect, or get, any compensation because she'd been unable
to wear the dress of her choice at the party on Saturday night, (unless
she had stipulated that in her contract with the dress supplier).
--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

In article , JohnOGroats
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Chris French and Helen Johnson Wrote:
In message , JohnOGroats
writes-

I ordered some beautiful blue geraniums from a website displaying
pics.
Now that I have the cuttings and they are in flower they are pink.
-
Most likely there was some mistake and the wrong ones were supplied
somehow.

What's the big deal - other than it being annoying - but these things
happen. Complain to the suppliers, I'm sure they will refund or supply
replacements
--
Chris French



Point is that it was a one off special order based on the colour. I
have a local gardening competition in September and I was proposing to
grow this one on for the competition.

If a woman ordered a blue dress and received a pink one ...?


Just as a matter of curiosity - why did you start a new thread for your
response?
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Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

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from Kay contains these words:

Just as a matter of curiosity - why did you start a new thread for your
response?

Must be an idiosyncrasy of Turncoat - all the posts have arrived in the
same thread here.

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http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/

NB the cutting arrived as a 1" plug-plant - two months later after three - repottings, feeding tender care etc... it is in flower! Too late in the season really - my comments are more out of frustration really!

I also bought a fringed aztec - beautiful picture I now worry that it will not live up to the illustration!

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NB the cutting arrived as a 1" plug-plant - two months later after
three - repottings, feeding tender care etc... it is in flower! Too
late in the season really - my comments are more out of frustration
really!

You should be able to get a refund. No amount of bad cultivation is
going to turn a blue geranium pink.

I'm considering having a go at Chiltern for some Lychnis coronaria
'alba' which I bought last year and which have just flowered - every
single one of them that dreadful magenta.

I also bought a fringed aztec - beautiful picture I now worry that it
will not live up to the illustration!

It's a lot of hassle, but it's a good idea to look things up in a
gardening book - they don't have the same incentive as a nursery or seed
company to make the thing look good.

I've just been looking through Dobies autumn catalogue and noticed how
they put several of something together for effect - there's one pic of
about half a dozen of the 'papillion' type hippeastrum, but for your 9
quid you get just a single bulb; and a magnificent mixture of at least
half a dozen different coloured hellebores - the standard pack just has
3. Allow for planting distances and there's no way you're going to be
able to match their picture, even if you bought two or 3 times the basic
order.
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Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

In message , Jaques
d'Alltrades writes
The message
from Kay contains these words:

Just as a matter of curiosity - why did you start a new thread for your
response?

Must be an idiosyncrasy of Turncoat - all the posts have arrived in the
same thread here.

It's probably down to how the different readers determine if something
is in a thread.

Turnpike uses the references header to work out the threading of
messages rather than the subject line. This means if someone starts a
new thread with the same subject title it will put these messages in the
a new thread as the message won't have nay references in the header.

Problem with relying on subject for threading is that if someone starts
a new thread with the same name as an existing one then the messages
from the new thread might get put in with the old one (Google groups
does - or maybe now did this ISTR)

Of course the OP was posting via Gardenbanter so who nows what might
happen :-)
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Chris French