I'm with @Obelixx on this one - as long as you stick to blue-ish pinks veering towards purple rather than orange-ish pinks veering towards salmon, it'll look grand.
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It is well known. ... that most chaps see colours differently from females.
"It is well known" is usually a cop-out for something with no factual backing.
As well as a gardener, I am a painter.; I am well versed in colour theory. I have studied Gertrude Jekyll's theory and practice of colour in gardens. And also numerous recent books on garden colour. This will have moderated any sex or gender bias.
In one of my Rhododendron books, Cynthia was described as "a colour that frightens the nightingales". And that is merely a gentle magenta-puce, not a strident fuchsia.
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Didactic or what?! As a qualified artist (seven years higher education both theory and practice) I too am well acquainted with colour wheel theory. The colour wheel is a useful tool to help achieve the effect you want. It is not a set of rules.
Jekyll’s style (which became the fashion for a while) was for soft and harmonious colour combinations. A master of a much bolder use of colour was Christopher Lloyd, and I think those troughs could lend themselves to something with real flamboyance, as he exhibited at Gt Dixter.
I would look at Tulipa Ronaldo and similar to plant in those containers, accentuating the blueish-pink of the troughs.
For something more daring, I’ve used Ronaldo in a planting with orange/apricot tulips which a gives a striking contrast, such as those seen at Great Dixter.
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I see subtle colour variations far better than my wife @Obelixx. That probably has more to do with our different interests and professions than our sexes. Wild variations in website/device color rendering is more pertinent, you might unwittingly end up with the ‘wrong’ shade of pink, red or whatever colour you choose.
In the end though, nothing is wrong, what you like together goes together, so go with you fancy. I’m a fan of species tulips too, although their flowering season is early and can be rather short so maybe consider mixing in with a later variety ?
ETA, Whittallii is the latest species tulip flower for me and is taller than most so has more impact than some.
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There are of course exceptions to general rules @Nollie. I think @coccinella needs to decide with toning colours to match her pot and the spiraea or bright zingy colours. I think I might go for matching/toning pink and white and then add some rich, burnt orange for fun.
@bédé just because you haven't read it doesn't mean the research doesn't exist! It's an evolution thing, in case you were wondering, and means women have a bigger colour vocabulary to match their greater perception of colours.
All that matter is whether @coccinella likes it or not. It's their garden. I think the suggestion by @Plantminded of doing each one a different way is a good idea. Then a decision can be made as to which one is preferable. Both can be done the same for the following spring, and the tulips not being used can go in another pot or in the ground. Purple and orange is a great combo, as @Dovefromabove indicates, because of their positions on the colour wheel. Queen of Night with a good, strong orange [and there are loads] would also work, but Ronaldo is a lovely purple. Works with virtually anything, if you like mixing colours together.
As is dissing someone’s taste in pots or anything else. I think we should do some guerrilla gardening in Bede’s garden and replace it all with the plant in Bencotto’s recent post:
@coccinella I have just been looking at the amazing plants in Japan on another thread. A similar colour to your containers. Looks great in Japan so why not here just go for it.
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1. Dove. Forget the colour wheel, it's just plain wrong. It started going wrong with Newton, he was too influenced by religion and music. It went further wrong when people started to make into a wheel. I don't think you will find fuchsia on the colour wheel. Or most things red+violet.
2. Nollie. Jeez.
3. Coccinella. I (we?) would be interested in what you had in the offending pots in the summer.
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As well as a gardener, I am a painter.; I am well versed in colour theory. I have studied Gertrude Jekyll's theory and practice of colour in gardens. And also numerous recent books on garden colour. This will have moderated any sex or gender bias.
In one of my Rhododendron books, Cynthia was described as "a colour that frightens the nightingales". And that is merely a gentle magenta-puce, not a strident fuchsia.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Although often hawked by TV and journalists, fashion should have no place in plant choice, and certainlt nothing chic.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
gives a striking contrast, such as those seen at Great Dixter.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the end though, nothing is wrong, what you like together goes together, so go with you fancy. I’m a fan of species tulips too, although their flowering season is early and can be rather short so maybe consider mixing in with a later variety ?
ETA, Whittallii is the latest species tulip flower for me and is taller than most so has more impact than some.
@bédé just because you haven't read it doesn't mean the research doesn't exist! It's an evolution thing, in case you were wondering, and means women have a bigger colour vocabulary to match their greater perception of colours.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/120907-men-women-see-differently-science-health-vision-sex#:~:text=Females are better at discriminating,(See more health news.)
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/men-and-women-see-things-differently-literally-180954815/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-babble/201504/when-it-comes-color-men-women-arent-seeing-eye-eye
Purple and orange is a great combo, as @Dovefromabove indicates, because of their positions on the colour wheel. Queen of Night with a good, strong orange [and there are loads] would also work, but Ronaldo is a lovely purple. Works with virtually anything, if you like mixing colours together.
and @bede -
that's as offensive, and ridiculous, a sweeping generalisation as saying all Scots have sh*t diets.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1069520/identifying-a-plant-in-japan#latest
2. Nollie. Jeez.
3. Coccinella. I (we?) would be interested in what you had in the offending pots in the summer.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."