It has to do with the color flowers you are mixing. Sometimes I just cant believe the crosses I see for sale. The colors are bound to make nothing but munge. I still am sometimes totally guilty of this in my own crossing.
You can always mix a mungy flower with a white, and hope. I was given some advice that until you REALLY get the hang of it, mix pinks with pinks and reds with reds, etc. Ive gotten much better flowers since then. I mix anything with a white. Think about mixing paint colors. If you put, say orange in with purple..your gunna get munge.
There are alot of good article in the AHS magazines on color mixing. Probably can find some good info on line.
