The truest, most consistent pink I have seen is Salter's 'South Sea Serenade'. Check photos at Tinker's. It is a little rusty and harder than average to grow well, but big, pretty and clear pink. For comparison, I grow 'Princess Diana', 'Seminole Wind', 'Belle Cook', 'Spode', 'Uptown Girl', 'Aunt Lauree', 'Ed Brown', 'Silver Ice' and probably others I don't think of now. I won't even include 'Gary Colby' and 'Steve Martin' in the pinks! Btw, 'Cherry Valentine' is a very pink with red eye. Very clear colors with very little yellow in background. A little rusty but vigorous. Ed Here is a link that might be useful: Tinker's database home page

I have a Beverly Sills & it is a warm, light pink -- not deep--but lovely. I used to work at a printery. Let me tell you, the pressmen run a few sample sheets of a run, and check the colors against the proofs --- if the lighting is a little off or the printer himself is a little color insensitive, you can get a bit different shade in the catalog than what the flowers will do---pressmen don't have a problem with colors "everybody knows" such as skin tones, the red white & blue of the flag or the red of a firetruck, but the finer points of shadings in esoteric things like the thousand greens of hostas or the pinks, blues, etc of irises, roses, and so on, are not something most are going to be aware of. There is an international color card system, and this is used for checking color, but sometimes if the image does not "look right" an adjustment might be made on the spot -- leading to a something like a slighter deeper pink flower, or a ladies sweater which arrives at your home a different shade from the one in the Bean's or Lands End catalog. And then of course there is variation in your soil, in the sunlight the plant receives, in minerals in any fertilizers used, and all that. I wonder if you could even deepen the pink by grinding up red cabbage at just the right time & adding it to the soil right around the plant!

Most pinks are really really light magentas, not light true reds. Rose is an intermediate intensity. Salvia greggiis with flowers in the pink range include `Pink Preference', Big Pink' and `Dwarf Pink'. `Wild Thing' definitely is more lavender in hue, though not as lavender-tinted as the lycioides x greggii forms `San Isidro' and `Purple Pastel'. WT has the same hue as S. muelleri or `Diane', but much lighter in saturation. I'd need to do a measurement with the color charts from the Royal Horticultural Society to be sure. Anyone with Photoshop can do color experiments using the Color Picker

If they aren't hybrids then you should be fine. It is possible they would crossbreed with each other on their own I suppose, but you wouldn't be getting yellow out of those red and pink colors. I favor red myself, so in the red/orange/yellow mixes of nasturiums that I have always had to plant, I save the seeds by color. I plant the red ones and a few orange ones if I run out of red. It has worked for me, and the children come out the same color as the parent. Marcia, who thinks there are too many orange and yellow flowers and not enough red and purple ones :-)