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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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  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    Yes
    Yes, but I would replant it elsewhere. Just this morning I was looking at two plants together, both red and a little way along I had 2 blueish plants together. So a swap will be made in the autumn. 
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Yes
    Can't cope with a red that is orangey (I like burgundy) or bright yellow, except in spring (I like orange, gold and pale lemon).  Some yellow snapdragons got pulled out this year and last year I removed a yellow plant that really grated on my nerves everytime I looked at it.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    No
    Colour scheme?
    Show me something in the garden that doesn't go with green. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2018
    I hate bright yellow in spring especially forsythia. An honourable exception is tete-a-tete.
    I prefer the more subtle yellow of primroses.
    However, in the summer, the brighter the better - unless there's pink in the vicinity.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Yes
    Talking about colour scheme, I've just bought a new book called Le nuancier du jardinier (The gardener's color chart) which is great for anyone interested in colour in flowers and foliage. It's in French, don't think there is or will be an English translation but in fact consists mostly of photographs with very little text. More on the publisher's site (ULMER) with a link to a YouTube presentation video. https://www.editions-ulmer.fr/editions-ulmer/le-nuancier-du-jardinier-626-cl.htm

  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited June 2018
    Other
    I also have a "1% pink" rule. It says I knowingly have 1% pink plants in my garden. And only 1% because it's practically impossible to avoid it all together. This 1% magically turns to 30% pink by July. My secret belief if that all plants are secretly pink and will unveil their true, inherent colour given half a chance. It doesn't make any difference if I hoik all the pink out for the following year. There it is again.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
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    Fire said:
    I also have a "1% pink" rule. It says I knowingly have 1% pink plants in my garden. And only 1% because it's practically impossible to avoid it all together. This 1% magically turns to 30% pink by July. My secret belief if that all plants are secretly pink and will unveil their true, inherent colour given half a chance. It doesn't make any difference if I hoik all the pink out for the following year. There it is again.
    I don't really have colour themes per se, but there is one part of my garden where I try not to have pink, just to see if I can. The red oriental poppy turned out to be pink. The purple oriental poppy fades to pink. The white geranium is actually very pale pink. The white foxgloves all come up in shades of pink when they self seed. Even purple alliums start to look suspiciously pink as they fade. The red penstemon is, in my opinion, dark pink. The orange rose is pink. The dark red sweet williams I had last year have self seeded and about half of them are shocking barbie pink.

    Pink is inescapable. So I grow lots of yellow and orange flowers too, just to annoy the purists :smile:
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • WonkyWombleWonkyWomble Posts: 4,541
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    I've only ever done this once without finding the offending plant another home. I felt guilty as the bees loved it, but waited until the flowers had gone and replaced it with lavender to please the bees.... the plant was a salvia hotlips. Can't stand the colours and it was too large for the space. No one else wanted it....
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
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    raisingirl  I'm so glad someone else sees the world through rose tinted specs.
  • StevedaylillyStevedaylilly Posts: 1,102
    Yes
    I also remove healthy plants but always attempt to find an other place or them in my garden. I think it's part of gardening. You plant something based on an idea how it will grow but if it then doesn't suit what you really wanted in your planting scheme, I remove it and plant something that does 
    I had 4 Pontentilla Miss Willmotts that I planted but they were in an open border and there sprawling habit did not suit that area. They are now planted amongst other plants and happily sprawl away in between the plants and shrubs 
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