Color is not close to the advertised picture
I live this plant and the flowers are beautiful. However the advertised photo shows an almost solid dark red and mine is while with red streaks. Still beautiful though. It was not staked and needed to be. I felt it was going to die when it showed up as the spike was bent over, thin and limp. It needed to de staked or it would break. I steamed it and it is great now. I have ordered numerous flowers from this grower and all have been amazing. This one slightly below expectations.