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A couple of years ago I took a cutting from a pink geranium which grew well and is now big and beautiful. This year it has produced blood red flowers as well as the pink. Myself and my friends has never seen this before nor knows why it happens. Can anyone educate me as to why this has happened.

I've occassionally heard of flowers changing colours. Colour pigment in flowers are uaually pretty resistant to change. My guess would be perhaps the pink was a 'mutation' of th red, and it is now reverting to it's original colour.

As soon as a flower shows its tendancy to red, remove the bloom and entire stem to the main stalk. This may allow more pink blooms to be produced.