Hi Linaria - I've never seen H non-scripta in a 'normal' garden, only in the wild or somewhere with very extensive grounds. They look best seen from a distance, en masse, in a woodland setting where what happens after flowering is not relevant. You need a lot of them to get the misty blue effect. In small numbers, though pretty, they don't make much impact imo. We have a problem over here with hybridisation watering down the native species. One other point. If your local garden centre is selling H non-scripta I'd want to be absolutely certain they're not dug from the wild.

Reading back on my post 2-1/2 years later, I am a bit shocked at how far I moved from there... I ended up purchasing a 36" Wolf induction cooktop, Wolf 30" M-series oven, and Wolf convection-steam oven. Despite kaseki's very fair warnings that induction cooktops have a notable failure rate, leaving one with a unique cutout in your countertop that is very limiting, I went with the Wolf cooktop because I liked its configuration, and its price, though costly, was a better value than other $$$ brands. I gave up on the Benchmark bc it had consistent negative feedback on a few features. I gave up on Thermador as a brand bc it had more consistent comments that Thermador customer service was lacking, and its oven models lagged behind other company's in innovation. For example, their combi-steam oven (and Benchmark's), had a water container that took a lot of space from the oven. However, I will note that one GW poster rigorously tested the Wolf, Thermador and Miele ovens in one showroom (~1-1/2 years ago), and felt that Thermador was the most even-baking, even if their convection fan technology was not the obviously best-designed. I went with the Wolf convection-steam oven bc it offered more useable space and was a lot less maintenance/easier to clean than the Miele, although it has fewer features and lacks a broiler, as the Miele has (although I originally thought the lack of a broiler in the Wolf was a deal-breaker for me). I went with the Wolf M-series oven bc I needed to stack my convection-steam oven and 30" wall oven. While I am not certain that I won't have problems with blue porcelain crazing and cracking, Wolf has had a long time to work on the issue, and it is an entirely new design from the L-series with the porcelain issues. We STILL haven't gotten our kitchen up and running, and are in the last 2 months of a 3 year building process (way too many problems!). I will add that in the last year, I once again started thinking that I should have put a Wolf convection-steam oven in my island and purchased side-swing double ovens where my 30" wall oven and 30" (front) convection-steam oven are stacked — and I would have come out significantly ahead in ergonomics and $$. I hope this summary of my decisions catches someone at the right time in their decision-making! Sorry to veer off from Thermador and Bosch here, but I seriously considered those brands, so summarized here.

I smelled the Thai Dragon Fruit in the store once - it smells nothing at all like actual dragon fruit, which has a very light scent. :( My roomate bought some original scent Gain liquid a few months ago and it didn't rinse very well. Towels would also get this nasty air-freshener scent when they got wet. I wouldn't have bought it because I've always hated the scent. (Didn't even notice that it was different lol) I don't think it cleans as well as Wisk, and the target store brand liquid also seems to clean and rinse better and is cheaper than gain.

Pretty difficult to tell apart. Blaumeise (aka Teller Blue, Blue Tit and Blue Sky) has larger inflorescences (9" across) and the ability to reverse itself as the flowers age - as illustrated by the inverted sterile sepals showing in your first photo. Both will be a very intense dark blue in proper soil conditions.