Are those for real?
Now that’s a whole bunch of clematis!
Yesterday The American Horticultural Society posted this picture of Clematis on their Facebook page. By the time I saw it many people had shared and linked to it. The problem? It’s a Photo-shopped picture, which a couple of people noticed and commented on at The Societies Facebook page. Then the post went missing. No explanation, just gone. I left a comment at the site asking what happened to it. The comment remains unanswered.
It’s very easy to be taken in by a photo like this since we are inclined by nature to “believe what we see”. When you remove a picture like this with no explanation one gets the impression that the folks at The Society are wishing it never happened. Why not just leave the photo up and fess up? I and many others had linked to the photo and now those links lead nowhere.
On The Internet what you do never really goes away. When you make a mistakle it’s best to just admit it and move on. Answer curious questions like mine. The pain of getting fooled will soon go away, and everyone can have a good laugh.
I swears Trey, the photos of my giant beet that the wife grew is not photoshopped. I’m simply not smart enough.
You expect to see this kind of photo on those mail order sites, you know the ones with the ‘really’ blue roses. The American Horticultural Society should be trying to portray a more honest picture of what a Clematis will do. Maybe there planning a fertilizer launch?
Still, even the best can get hood winked, did you hear of the story of the Turkish police trying to save someone drowning in the Black sea? It turned out to be a blow up doll, lets hope they didn’t try to resuscitate it.