hey pumpy ....

you seem to be asking the same question over and over ...

the color of the flower.. from a given seed or bulb.. or corm.. or whatever.. is genetically driven by the parents of the sexual mating that created the seed ... except for extreme soil conditions, nothing will change the color of the flower that comes out of the seed ...

for example.. if i put my brown haired girl.. next to my red head boy.. her hair is not going to turn color ...

so no.. putting differing hybrids together... will NOT change the actual color of the flowers ... though your eyes may note a color shift ... but this isnt art class ...

now if you are breeding your plants ... and want to get seed of a certain color for next year .... well that is the work of dna scientists working on their thesis ... and i dont have time to research and give you answer on how to accomplish that ...

but understand .. your packaged seed was bred .. or hybridized for a given result .. if you collect the seeds from those plants.. next year.. you will MOST LIKELY not get the same flowers that came out of the package.. because you have added a generation of dna ... [in other words your kids [next years flowers] are not going to look exactly like your moms kids [this years flowers]... because dad is different [new genetic material] ]

i hope this helps you better understand about how the flowers and their colors are developed ...

but all that said.. you must be a newbie.. and i dont understand .... why.. of all things.. this worries you ...

back in the day.. i was just worrying about getting them to live thru the season .. rather than worry about color ...

why is this so important??

have a great day.. and good luck

ken

It is not that I am worried but if I make trades with anyone in the future I would hate to give them what I thought were Firecracker glads and when they bloomed for them they turned out to be a mixed up variety.

When I first started gardening, I was given some Iris that had belonged to my husband's grandfather. He raised Irises, and was noted for having every color imaginable in his garden.

I planted them all together in one bed, and the first year they bloomed it was phenomenal. There were pinks, yellows, tans, purples, whites...you name it. I was thrilled.

The second year they bloomed, I noticed there seemed to be a lot more whites than the year before.

By the third year - ALL WHITE!

This mystified me for many years. It seemed that it had happened so quickly, I was sure all the original Iris had "reverted" to white.

I finally had the opportunity a few years ago to tell my story to a couple of members of the local Iris society at one of their plant sales. They assured me that Iris don't "revert," but that the white had probably been a stronger, more vigorous variety and had simply taken over and crowded the others out.

It still seems odd to me, though. How did the other colors disappear completely, so quickly, so that even when all were separated (right after the all-white year), I still only had white?

Very strange. Anyway, I now separate my Iris in the garden. I only have two types that are planted together in the same bed, and I am watching them like a hawk! :)