Beginner Gardening: Happy accidents, 1 by Zuzu

Zuzu wrote:
With this one, I failed to follow the advice of someone at my local nursery. He gave me a gorgeous Lily in a pot and told me to repot it in a bigger container but not to plant anything else in there that I liked. He said the Lily would cause other plants to mutate.

I was sure it was a myth, so I planted it in a container with a pinkish-red ivy geranium. The next season, the geranium bloomed in this color. I assure you it looked nothing like this the year before. I never saw an ivy geranium this color before or since and I think it's fabulous.