Blue and purple

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The blue Swan River daisies finally fully opened (after surviving a considerable battering from heavy rain) yesterday.


Purple chilli flowers:


The first ones are just starting to set. So far as I remember the ripe chillies are actually bright red...

I have been carefully pollinating all the chilli flowers by hand, according to my old greenhouse habits where they never set naturally, and am continuing this with the dark-leafed chilli in the hopes of avoiding cross-pollination if possible. Naturally I am using a different hand/fingertip :-D