Re: [Aroid-l] Blue Anthuriums

From: "Sherry Gates" <TheTropix at msn.com> on 2011.11.16 at 22:14:57 ROFL!!!  P.T. Barnum & Sons Inc.    Ol' P.T. would have loved that story!                         Sherry ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Marak To: Discussion of aroids Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [Aroid-l] Blue Anthuriums   How appropriate your last comment is ... years ago I worked for a Major Retailer, and they had a "sample store" where employees could buy merchandise samples of all sorts. One day a friend and I walked up to see a buying frenzy - people carrying out large (5 gallon, at least) pots of what looked to me exactly like a typical big box store Spathiphyllum, except that the spathes were bright red! People were buying two or three of them at a time, exclaiming about how beautiful and unusual they were. When I got closer, I could see that the spathes had in fact been spray painted red. It would be funnier if it weren't sad. Steve On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, hermine wrote: > At 09:28 PM 11/14/2011, you wrote: > > >Jude - I don't doubt that there might be some real blues (or getting > >close to it!) given some of the deep purples I've seen the varieties > >have, but I think if you saw them in person you'd realize these were > >not giving some orchid breeder out there the hybridizer happy dance. > >It looks off, like the flowers were painted with watercolor or > >something! It was more glaring due to the "natural" untreated > >hybrids right next to them. > > > chemicals aside, I SMELL MENDACITY in the form of PHOTOSHOP! I never > seed that colour blue on a flower in my entire life of peering at > blue flowers, especially among flowers where blue is notably absent like roses. > > I got an idea. why do not the people just get spray cans and make the > flowers whatever they like. > > hermine > > _______________________________________________ > Aroid-L mailing list > Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com > http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l > -- Steve Marak -- samarak@gizmoworks.com _______________________________________________ Aroid-L mailing list Aroid-L@www.gizmoworks.com http://www.gizmoworks.com/mailman/listinfo/aroid-l ------=_NextPart_000_00A9_01CCA47A.E30DCE80-- --===============2277791862455212714==

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