Tropicals & Tender Perennials: gyped!, 1 by bettydee

bettydee wrote:
Brug colors are so influenced by weather that they may look different in other parts of the country. A few years ago, I sent my mother cuttings of an old favorite — Rosemond — which normally exhibited a good pink color. My mother plant produced flowers like the one below. My mother's plant never developed more than a pale pink color and then mostly along the edge. She was so disappointed with its color that she finally yanked the whole thing out. She lives in Fremont, CA located near the southern end of the San Francisco Bay. Her backyard is influenced by the corridor cut into the coastal mountains for Highway 680 so it's usually not as hot as other parts of the city.

The temperatures in the San Francisco Bay Area are generally mild. While the daytime temperatures may rise into the 80s and 90 (a 100 here and there to make life interesting), nighttime temperatures are cool, downright cold in some areas. Much, much different than temperatures here in central Texas where the temperatures rise into the 90s and 100s and stay ther until fall. We're lucky if the nighttime temps get down in to the low 80s or high 70s.

Maturity of the plant sometimes influences color. Give your cuttings a chance to mature. If the color doesn't improve over time, then it could be that in your area the color may not fully develop.