I just re-read the way I described the color of Chionodoxa/Scilla sardensis. In comparing it to Scilla sibirica, I meant to say that they are similar in intensity of color, not in hue of color. Scilla sardensis as I know it has never shown a hint of the turquoise color of Scilla sibirica. It always begins a very dark, saturated, intense blue - but in our climate it quickly fades to a softer color. Jim McKenney