Japanese MG "Seiryu"

blooming for us at work today :)

another shot..........

Very pretty color of blue! How large are the blooms?
Alice

Alice the blue blooms were 5-1/2 inches :)

You have some lucky people at work that can see such beauties for no admission fee LOL!

Such a stunning blue, awesome!!

Joseph

Hmm...beautiful flower, but looks nothing like my Seiryu. It has two forms, either light with darker stripes, or mostly dark with lighter stripes.

This is my darker one...

editing to say I believe this to be Sazanami #1 :-)

This message was edited Sep 2, 2005 10:00 AM

Your darker one sure looks just like my packet from the Matsukaze!!!! It has dark blue almost purple with teal and white, pink rim and white throat!!

I just found this photo from: Lionnet who sold on ebay NOT MY PHOTO! But it is called: Seiun and it looks identical to the one I "thought" I was growing called Seiryu!!!

Here is a photo also from same place that I found that looks like your lighter one above! called Ukigumo

All very pretty MGs, but what a variation in supposedly the same variety. DonnaS

Your darker one looks like this (same site) found photo called: Seiryu - Blue Dragon!!!

sooooo to sum it up, my guess is that my first 2 photos are Seiun!!! hmmmmmm there are so many different seed companies and they all seem to name theirs differently, so this could take alot of work to figure out if what we are growing is from one seed company or another seed company with different names. But I do think my FIRST photos are NOT Seiryu!!! I am glad you are here Cat, we might make some headway with getting some things straightened out!! Where is that Emma at now!!!!

I hate when that happens! LOL

Seriously though, I do HATE that, I open a brand new packet, label it and watch it grow, photograph the blooms only to see that they are NOT what the packet shows!!!!! So tell me this Are we not safe assuming the packet should be correct? LOL I think until we research a little more, alot of seeds we are growing could be called one thing and then find out they truly ARE something else!!! geesh, this is supposed to be fun not a messy hassle over what they are called LOL BUT I didn't want people to see the top photos and assume that they are growing the same one only to have it turn out wrong, this is why I added those other photos so others could see the major differences.

Both Seiryu are from the same package, and other photos I've seen of them show both forms. I got the Ukigumo and Suigetsu also, but what I found out about the photo shown on the Ukigumo is that it is used on several different packets, only the color has been changed in a photo editor to approximate the true color. Talk about really frustrating!

yes truly frustrating! to say the least. I think there will be much more confusion the more of us folks growing them coming up with different "patterns, etc". That's a shame seed companies can't be more honest and not touch up the photos! Just show us the true photo of what the seed is supposed to be and be done with it.

Laurrie, I have that same packet that had a translated name of Seiun, and my flower looks like that packet picture.

Reference: http://davesgarden.com/forums/fp.php?pid=1735348

Joseph

Yes Joseph, I found the photo and compared to my one that was supposed to be Seiryu and knew then it wasn't truly Seiryu but Seiun!!!

Stacey,
Look at this photo that I have grown for a couple of years.
It is a 'throw off' of Blue Tie Dye From Japan.
Looks so much like your lighter 'Seiryu' NOT.

Emma, I think you sent me some of those seeds last year. I haven't grown them yet, so I forgot all about that one you had. I love the haloed throat. It just lights up the whole flower!