Thank you both so much! It is prettier in person, and I can't really describe the color. I have nothing else in the garden that is the same color, so nothing to compare it to!
Polymerous, thanks for all of the wonderful suggestions, and I will look into all of them. I have Ed Brown, so I could use that one, and I know I have others with lots of diamond dusting, so I should probably look into their children and see if it is passed along. I never even thought to do that earlier! I'm kind of worried about losing the gold around the edge, because it does look like a gold chain to me, and Mom would approve.
She actually had a jewelry room! I wouldn't mind if the form is changed a little, but I'd sure like to keep the color if possible, and I have no idea how to go about doing that. The height is perfect, and so is the bloom size, so I'd like to just make it a little more flashy. I've got a lot of things to consider that I hadn't really thought about before! I was so stuck on getting sparkles on it that I didn't think about messing up what I love about it! I'm just really excited to finally have a prospect to register with her name on it.
Hopefully someone else will know if the diamond dusting may show up better after time. Like I said, there was none there last year, and this year there is a little, so I've got my fingers crossed that next year will be even better, but I have no idea if that is really possible or not.
Thanks again for the help!
