We know reds are often tricky to photograph, but checking other sellers' sites for this one shows all the rest of the images to be that rose color. Would have been glorious if it were that lovely, lovely, red as shown in the one photo and I'd be very disappointed, too.
I will be interested to see how true the dozens and dozens of new ones I got this summer and fall will bloom. Most came from one seller. A few did bloom this year and were close or even better than his photos. But one was a pale, washed out can-only-see-faintly-where-it-might-have-maybe-been-the-one-photographed. I am confident he sent the correct one and that it is simply the differences in location (and it's in a container right now, too). But I think this type of situation illustrates a danger to a seller who uses someone else's photos without crediting. Kinda of hard to defend discrepancies if you don't actually KNOW if the flower bloomed just like that. For those that use their own and "enhance" them to the point of creating a false image...well, shame on them and I'll spend my money elsewhere.
