What you see is not always what you get!

This is an original photograph but the rain drops may have been added by a water spray just before the picture was taken. Many garden photographers carry glycerin water around to enhance a subject prior to snapping away.

Plant Label Pictures

• When it comes to plant labels be extra cynical.
• The time of day affects the colour of the flower.
• Filters can be used on the camera to modify the end image.
• When ready to be reproduced the image can be changed with digital tools. You may have seen wedding photographs with the naughty uncle painted out or spots on some ones face touched up. Well that can and does happen to plant pictures that are designed to sell the flower.
• Even at the printers the inks and machine settings used can change the picture on the label. What you see may not be what you get.
• More radical changes can  be done or may be I have created the first true Blue Rose.

 

Blue, Mauve, Purple, I am not sure what colour this is. All I know is it will never grow in my garden or anywhere else short of laboratory experiments