It doesn't look very blue in the photo???
showing your age (or mine).....I’d call it Lavendar Blue (sing dilly, dilly)
I should have led with - lovely flower especially the velvet lip. Apologies
Lavendar Blue (sing dilly, dilly)
Mine will sometimes bloom in late winter (Feb) and the flowers will be bluer and the lip wider than now. Mine does not have the petal and sepal form of this flower, very nice.I think that back in the 'old' days, they didn't know what the word 'blue' actually meant. There is definitely a range where 99% of regular sighted people will agree that a particular 'blue' falls into the 'blue' category - or within range of BLUE. Violet, pinky violet, purple etc. is certainly not anywhere in range of blue.
Naturally - just like fuzzy logic or borderline cases (or close to border) ----- there can be situations where the colour is undecided. But for many cases where a flower is clearly anywhere near 'blue' ------ they shouldn't have put the word 'blue' in the name (- although, it's their choice, but a poor choice heheh).
Aside from the cultivar name (with the word blue) ------ totally agree --- beautiful and outstanding result! Very nice flowers!
Mine will sometimes bloom in late winter (Feb) and the flowers will be bluer and the lip wider than now. Mine does not have the petal and sepal form of this flower, very nice.
Pd a price for my comment, eh? I’ve also been hummming Lavendar Blue in my head ever since making the commentYou should have heheheheh. Accepted (apologies accepted)
Pd a price for my comment, eh? I’ve also been hummming Lavendar Blue in my head ever since making the comment
My memory was wrong. It was an Oct bloom that was bluer. Here are the 3 past flowering’s 10/17; 2/19; 9/20.
SP thank you, but I think your flower has nicer form. The second photo (with the name on it) was judged at the VOS show in Richmond in 2/2019 It got a red ribbon. The judges comments were that it should have more flowers (it had another, but the bud blasted) and that the petals were a bit too wavy. So they gave it a 2nd place ribbon. I was thrilled as it was the first time I had taken anything to a show. The lip on that one (Feb. bloom) was enormous and really velvety. Don’t know why it bloomed out of cycle.Those photos are so beautiful!!!!!! Very nice captures SB! Thanks for posting them too. Very very nice to see those ones. Great shape and colours. The velvet pattern/texture is super appealing.
SP thank you, but I think your flower has nicer form. The second photo (with the name on it) was judged at the VOS show in Richmond in 2/2019 It got a red ribbon. The judges comments were that it should have more flowers (it had another, but the bud blasted) and that the petals were a bit too wavy. So they gave it a 2nd place ribbon. I was thrilled as it was the first time I had taken anything to a show. The lip on that one (Feb. bloom) was enormous and really velvety. Don’t know why it bloomed out of cycle.
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