color issue on my purple cone flowers
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
United States
August 21, 2010 7:09pm CST
I know different nutrients can make some flowers change color like hydraingias but is this also true for cone flowers? My purple cone flowers are more of a white-lt pinkish color instead of a more vibrant color. They seem to be fading to white a lil more every year. Anyone know why this is occuring? What nutrient the plants are missing? And no I didn't add new soil to the bed this year.
2 responses
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Aug 10
hi 3snugglebunnies odd i did not know purple cone flowers could
come out a whitish pink color. Perhaps the ph index of your soil
is off. I cannot remember now how we would make hydrangeas turn
blue but I know it had something to do with the acidity or alkalinity
of the soil. Let me hit the mylot search bar and find out. lol.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
22 Aug 10
hi I found out its aluminum Sulfate worked in around the roots of hydrangeas turns them blue so I would think it would also turn
'the purple cone flower back to purple as it changes the ph
value of the soil. I know aluminum sulfate is good for plants
so it might work to make your coneflowers more purple again.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
22 Aug 10
I know they weren't a deep purple or anything but the standard purple color that they are typically. I'll have to look into it.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
24 Aug 10
I don't know if it could be that it has nothing to do at all whatsoever with your soil. I know that my mother has a bed full of flowers that were originally purple flowers but they were cross pollinated several years ago and since the time that they were accidentally cross pollinated, they have never come out purple again, instead they are half purple and half yellow and there is no way to get them to go back.
@3SnuggleBunnies (16374)
• United States
25 Aug 10
half purple & half yellow? How strange on that one as well. They start out middle of the road in the "purple" but then they lighten up quite a bit.
