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Would you hoik out a healthy plant if it looked ok but didn't fit in with your planned colour scheme

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  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Yes
    Yes, I'd move it to another part of the garden or to the park.

      I never used to think about colour schemes, but a couple of years ago I cut a narrow border out of the grass alongside the front path and filled it with pink flowers.  I didn't think about timing, but as it's turned out, as one lot is going over, something else is starting to bloom.  Tulips, then anemones, saxifrage, London Pride and heuchera, aquilegia, hardy geraniums and lastly, fuchsias.

    Between the path and the boundary wall is a much bigger border, 39 feet long, 10 feet deep at the street end, tapering to 6 feet beside the house.  I'm planting it as a rainbow: red flowers at the street end, as far as the elder tree, then a zone of oranges and yellows as far as the beech tree, which I'm surrounding with ferns and white-flowered woodland plants, and blues and purples beside the house.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    As the extent of my planting scheme is being delighted when the plant grows, it's a strong 'No way' from me.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Other
    Put me down as a 'maybe'. If it's an annual, then no, it'll stay. If it's a perennial it depends whether I like it where it is. I move plants most often for the being the wrong size or shape, but I might move one for being the wrong colour next to something else. I've got a pink oriental poppy that's blooming now right next to a red one (they were both sold as being red - ho hum). I'm debating whether to move the pink one to somewhere that it will stand out more as a lovely colour, rather than where it is because the red is swamping it and making it look slightly insipid
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Yes
    I grew 12 pure white foxgloves dotted along a long border and they look fantastic, but there was 1 self-sown pink one right at the front - I agonized for a while, but it had to go (with a degree of guilt)

    Billericay - Essex

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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Other
    Pete8 said:
    I grew 12 pure white foxgloves dotted along a long border and they look fantastic, but there was 1 self-sown pink one right at the front - I agonized for a while, but it had to go (with a degree of guilt)
    I'd have left it knowing that next year there'd be a glorious mix of shades there from the cross bred babies  :)
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    Yes
    The question is a bit loaded - if everyone voting on the basis that they have a colour scheme, it’s obvious the bias is to follow the plan everyone has.

    I plan to shift everything I “don’t want” into a corner at he back of the garden and see if it survives.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Yes
    Pete8 said:
    I grew 12 pure white foxgloves dotted along a long border and they look fantastic, but there was 1 self-sown pink one right at the front - I agonized for a while, but it had to go (with a degree of guilt)
    I'd have done the same   :D
    It also depends on the size of your plot. In a small space, everything has to work harder, and unifying the colour scheme always makes a better design. Too much colour and too many different plants makes for a very restless space instead of a restful one. Depends on what you want from your garden too   :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Other
    I'm a bit ruthless with foxgloves.
    As soon as they're big enough I lift up their skirts. If there's any pinkness there, out they come. Only if they're totally green can they be guaranteed to be white.
    I can do butch when I try. ;)
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's why I put in 'other' Tin Pot. :) I don't have a colour scheme either, but I did pull out and give away a horrible yellow erysmium.
    I don't get white gardens and the like and was wondering how far people go to achieve them.
    I suppose a pink blue and white theme has emerged in my front garden, but it wasn't deliberate 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    No. I plant where I think a plant will do well, if the colour works then hurray, but I like a mixture. It just happens that yellow and red plants seem to like sunny spots and my shady patches seem to have pastel colours.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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