Hot Pink Tulips

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lauragreenflowers

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Just wondering your opinion.

Hot pink means pink, not any color or shade of purple. I just received my wedding order for this weekend and the bride wants hot pink tulips, which I ordered. My wholesaler sent his hot pink tulips but they are coming off as purple. I am not very happy with him but he claims that he sent what I ordered.

ARrrrgggghhhh.
 
lauragreenflowers said:
Just wondering your opinion.

Hot pink means pink, not any color or shade of purple. I just received my wedding order for this weekend and the bride wants hot pink tulips, which I ordered. My wholesaler sent his hot pink tulips but they are coming off as purple. I am not very happy with him but he claims that he sent what I ordered.

ARrrrgggghhhh.
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Hot pink to a lot of men is magenta. I had issues with a salesman about stock. I ordered pink, and he sent that peachy skin-colored one which I can't stand. When I ordered pink stock from another salesman, he said he didn't have any. "Okay, send me something light-colored but not that skin-colored one" I said.

He sent pink. When I called him on it, he said "No, that's lavender."

I rest my case.
 
Thank you! I am glad I am not the only one wondering about my color tones with my male wholesaler. He's great but I just think he's color illiterate. Thanks!
 
did you know lavender daisies were pink? Thank goodness after only 20 years my husband finally admitted he was color blind. Now 17 years later, he's worse!
 
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I just had to learn what my sales rep saw as colors. I went in to meet them and then would go thru the cooler and ask them what color a certain flower was. Made it much easier and I also order by variety
 
I have trouble because the lights in our wholesaler cooler are florescent and there is more natural light in the show room. I can't tell you how many times I have grabbed hot pink dens in the cooler and then walked to the checkout and looked down and they look purple. Pinks and purples really show up different in different lights. I agree varieties are the only way to come close to guaranteeing color, but even those change depending on the growing season and location (Attache roses being one that changes throughout the season from dark pink to a medium pink). I have one sales man trained to understand my colors at my wholesaler, everyone else I want to see it before I buy it.
 
I have "color deficiencies" It is more common in men but women can be too. Really struggle with pinks and peaches, and also the difference between blues and greens.
I can't tell you how many times people say "and you're a florist"?

I ask a co-worker - is this pink or peach? they laugh and tell me the color - life goes on.
 
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