BLUE COLEUS

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    Thanks for the heads up, i'm just very interested to grow them, the foliage is striking on some of the varietys i have seen (apart from the photoshopped blue) it would be interesting to see what happens if you decide to buy them and they germinate.
     
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      I bought some pure white artificial lillies for the downstairs loo from China (i know, peasantry)
      They looked lovely for around 3 months until the spray paint fell off. This is how they look now..
      Be wary of our chinese friends!
       

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        Nicotiana Lilium, lovely shade of yellow :)
         
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          And as florists have known for a long time, you can achieve all kinds of interesting colours by putting ink in the water. It's a neat trick for dried flowers, getting the colour into the petals/leaves before you dry them. It's not going to help you from seed though!
           
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            pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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            And those very nasty dyed Heather's often on sale.
             
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              Urghh! Reminds me of 80's Spanish holidays where we all came home holding a felt donkey and a cactus covered in 'glued on' flowers lol.
               
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                Viva Espania
                 

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                  Looks like a llama to me. Wrong side of the Atlantic and wrong hemisphere, I think!
                   
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                    you just haven't seen many long-necked donkeys is all
                     
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                      pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                      Looks more like a long eared Alpaca to me.:roflol:
                       
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                        This is consumerism at it's worst... A one 'size' fits all Donkey/ Llama / Alpaca to cover multi global holiday outlets.
                        I bet they were produced in China and subbed out to a factory in Taiwan.
                        Back on topic i see that Thompson & Morgan are offering a blue poppy meconopsis 'Lingholm' which is promised to grow in 'the most difficult shady areas'
                         
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