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Horrible yellow bidens

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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It's  worse in real life. More muddy.
I'm  a bit peeved that it looks ok in the photo so you will need to use your imagination 
Can anyone think of anything that would  match it besides the compost heap?

In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • brackenbracken Posts: 91
    Try planting it with orange plants to break up the yellow.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I have some mixed cosmos, some of which might turn out orange but I really hoped to cool it down a bit.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I’m not keen on yellow flowers, try planting it with pink petunias, It’ll  clash beautifully.😱😱😱😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Ooh what a good idea! If only I had the pink and white striped ones😖
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    cream, white and orange to make it fade into the spectrum (osteos?). Or rich purple (salvia?) to make it less muddy
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I have cream osteos and some overwintered that I'm waiting to see what colour they are. Tried purple, it doesn't work.
    It's a really healthy bggggr . Isn't it always the way😒
    I'll try it against the cream. If that doesn't work, I'll use it to brighten up a corner that I never look in.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2021
    What about more of a mauve than purple? 

    Or ... something chocolatey ... a dark leaved dahlia, chocolate cosmos or even dark browny plum coloured coleus?

    For me, it's not so much the yellow ... it's the way it jars with that shade of green ... 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • shazza 3shazza 3 Posts: 197
    maybe i'm "odd" but i think it looks pretty !!!! It looks like it would brighten up a dull corner even when the weather is not good, i like it  :)  
  • RoddersUKRoddersUK Posts: 537
    Give them to me as my bidens look dead lol.
    The rain smashed them and they haven't recovered
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I bought a tray of coleus yesterday. I picked the one with the most dark ones. That might work. Glossy park bench green certainly doesn't help.
    Not odd at all @shazza 3 just different taste😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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