Have you ever bought several flowers (before they bud) or a number of flowering trees or bushes with the idea of planting a monoculture of one color only to find once they are planted and established that one is not the same color? So, now what do you do? Do you dig up the offending color and replace it with another specimen that may never look like it fits in because it is always a little behind growth-wise? Or do you simply leave it and spend every season irritated by the reminder of the mistake that was made by the horticulturalist who sold you the plants?
Jacob served seven long years for the hand of Rachel, Laban's beautiful daughter (Genesis 29). On the night of the marriage feast, the father switched Rachel with his older (read "ugly") daughter. "And in the morning, behold, it was Leah (vs. 25)" He ended up serving another seven years for the hand of Rachel. Talk about not getting what you paid for!
I think maybe that is what happened in the park where I took these photos. Among the cherry trees lining both sides of the entrance drive are two of a different color, as though they were a mistake.
That is why I have been showing two different colors blooms that even have a slightly different shape to them. You have your pinkies...
And you have the truer reds which are the ones that appear to have been a mistake.
This variety fades to white whereas the red ones don't.
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