Ah - I couldn't remember who it was @Liriodendron - thanks. That's certainly a very strange phenomenon re the 'feeling the pain'. Glad I don't have that! A trailing plant would be a nice addition @SYinUSA. Just a question of getting something suitable at the appropriate time, as you say
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Some lysimachia (creeping jenny) might look nice tumbling over the sides of the pots. Not sure if it's available when the tulips start to bloom, though.
You don't say which species/cultivar.
Is it just a polite way of saying "hide the containers"? If it is a yellow flowered form, it would in my eyes look ghastly!
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Creeping jenny is lysimachia nummilaria. The flowers are either insignificant or the same color as the foliage, medium to lime-green depending on sunlight. Hot pink with lime green is a preppy Palm Beach color combination. High-contrast brights are obviously not for everybody, but it's made Tobi Fairley, Eddie Ross, and Lilly Pulitzer a pretty penny.
Christopher Lloyd loved bright pink Phlox paniculata with a Yellow Verbascum or mullein. Both strong and bold and that is why they work together, especially against a bright blue sky. He had far more years than most at learning his art, he said he hoped to'stir people up to make the blood flow'. Colour in a garden is a fascinating subject that takes a life time to learn, it is a very skillful art form. I love to visit gardens that push the boundries with colour, it is an opportunity to stand, stare and stretch the mind.
I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
Indeed @GardenerSuze, and it's why he's so rightly revered
It's basic preference though, as with so many things. Do something different if it takes your fancy. I can't stand rows of bedding plants in little borders around a lawn, but if that's what people like, it's none of my business. They'd probably hate my garden
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I've got far more dahlias than I really need (especially when it comes to lifting them!) but I love them for their wide colour range. Every year I play with different colour combinations in my long mixed border. It is such fun to pick up and co-ordinate with some colours or contrast wildly with others. I like the way I can link the colours in one patch of planting to the next without a break in the flow and if I want I can change it completely the following year
Mine have withstood lots of very windy weather and some heavy rains and they are still cheerily flowering away. I can't think of another plant as versatile, long-flowering or cheap, at about £3 a tuber. And I can split them to get more for free
Context and background (usually green foliage) are important in garden colour mixes. I have seen magenta Bourgainvillea that zings on the Mediterraneum coast, but is a disaster in a northern Europeaan conservatory.
My taste only.
location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand. "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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That's certainly a very strange phenomenon re the 'feeling the pain'. Glad I don't have that!
A trailing plant would be a nice addition @SYinUSA. Just a question of getting something suitable at the appropriate time, as you say
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Is it just a polite way of saying "hide the containers"? If it is a yellow flowered form, it would in my eyes look ghastly!
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Both strong and bold and that is why they work together, especially against a bright blue sky. He had far more years than most at learning his art, he said he hoped to'stir people up to make the blood flow'.
Colour in a garden is a fascinating subject that takes a life time to learn, it is a very skillful art form. I love to visit gardens that push the boundries with colour, it is an opportunity to stand, stare and stretch the mind.
It's basic preference though, as with so many things. Do something different if it takes your fancy. I can't stand rows of bedding plants in little borders around a lawn, but if that's what people like, it's none of my business. They'd probably hate my garden
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Context and background (usually green foliage) are important in garden colour mixes. I have seen magenta Bourgainvillea that zings on the Mediterraneum coast, but is a disaster in a northern Europeaan conservatory.
My taste only.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."