I've an awful suspicion that my gardening style has become fashionable. I'm mortified .
I think it's like fashion. If you wait long enough, the kind of style you like will roll around eventually. Then people say "oh, your so on trend" and you raise an eyebrow, knowing you were doing what you always did and it was the world that caught up with you, not the other way around, as it were.
Wait long enough and skinny jeans and pointy shoes will fall out of fashion. Nasty neon pinks come and go. It's just a PITA when what you love becomes unavailable again, after the glut.
There is little point in chasing "the look". Plant and wear what you love; what's useful.
Interesting points about "fashionable" gardening... @Fire@B3
Yesterday I looked at my Pink Perpetue rose, growing nicely, very healthy and remarked to my OH that I wasn't at all sure about the colour. He said exactly what I was thinking, that it was an "old-fashioned" colour.
But then he pointed to the St Swithun's rose, and said, "... but not as old-fashioned as that colour!". Now, I don't agree that the SS is an old-fashioned colour...
I guess something is "fashionable" (usually a positive) if a lot of people have it... but then, isn't that just "common" (usually a negative)...? Ho hum...
Both pics taken this morning after torrential rain last night...
I suppose a lot of thinking about what is ‘fashionable’ also depends on location and past experiences. Having grown up in the tropics, I am happy with my hanging basket of blue lobelia, unburdened by any memories of it in old relatives’ gardens. It’s also been a novel experience for me to have grown the lobelia indoors from March and made my first ever hanging basket. I couldn’t bring myself to poke holes in the sides to plant up like the pros just yet though.
Vanessa Bell looking quite yellow this morning
Lobelia ‘Waterfall Blue’
Star jasmine now fully in bloom — the scent is amazing
Managed to save some gladioli blooms from heat wave. Sparse they are, but very lush. I was meant to have some green ones among white and red, but yet to find a single one haha
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Yesterday I looked at my Pink Perpetue rose, growing nicely, very healthy and remarked to my OH that I wasn't at all sure about the colour. He said exactly what I was thinking, that it was an "old-fashioned" colour.
I guess something is "fashionable" (usually a positive) if a lot of people have it... but then, isn't that just "common" (usually a negative)...? Ho hum...
Both pics taken this morning after torrential rain last night...
Vanessa Bell looking quite yellow this morning