Omg!!! Is the color real??
Very nice!
The color does fade out a bit after a flower has been open for few days.
Would love to see it open and how the color stays.
I think that the problem is that the flower was opening during the transport from Germany to Italy.. And if that was not enough the shipping has delayed
Oh, well, what can you do?
but you have more buds to open and hopefully they will open up normally.
Time will tell.
For now, at least you know that it has great deep pink color, which is not common for this type of hybrids at all.
Most often, they are very pale pink.
They must of used the dunkel (vinicolor) variety of delenatii in this cross. I'm surprised nobody has jumped on this idea. In other words, you can all have one if you look for the right cross.