I like that purple too!
These froze a few times--the stolen mountain 'Florentina'--
just one stalk of these with three blooms that did this weird half/half (or more like 2/3--1/3) thing
the rest were all the normal whitish color, but extra thin and splotchy and rather crappy looking, but I think this is a cool bud picture
we also had some freakishly short, 2-4 inchers
