The same has happened to me this year Verdun with some new sedum 'Citrus Twist' but they are coming out magenta . Stands out like a sore thumb in my garden.
I love pastel/lilac pink. I'm not much of a one for colour matching. Tend to go for best growing conditions and colour turns up any where, but there can be happy accidents.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
There are some colours i really cant stand together, red and pink is one, i have only recently started to like hot colours, but not keen on them all together! Im just hoping white will be a safe colour!
It's funny bekkie - I like certain colour combinations and dislike others too - but I think most of us probably do if we're honest! The hot colour schemes can be a bit of an acquired taste, but if you take a few plants in red and orange and add lots of big, contrasting foliage (green and dark purple work really well) you might find you can sneak a sizzling pink in there and it'll be terrific. Try grouping some pots together and gradually add a couple of things
Have I sold it to you?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Not yet Fairy, but as each year passes i like more things, so there is hope for me yet!
I do like some hot colours now, but still dont like them mixed together, they remind me of park bedding schemes and grannies front gardens, you know what i mean? Those 60s displays with all the colours mixed in, just too much for my eyes! Bet you can guess my entire house is magnolia!
Also, the borders im working on can be quite shady, so deep colours are out arent they?
I do love echinecea tomato soup, but i havent a hope of growing that in this border!
I didn't bother to contact Jackson's Verd - which I should have done - so my own fault. I can stand the loss...you know what they say...toffs are careless! It won't stop me using them again anyway. My own local nursery now has renardii so I'll get them there. I'm assuming neither is renardii although only one has flowered, but they look identical.
bekkie - The key is to do a little and gradually build it up. Keep the foliage colours in the same colour range and just vary the size, then add one hot colour -red, orange or yellow. I loathe the multi coloured bedding scheme thing too, but I like strong colours. For instance, I've got a green/gold Canna which will have orange flowers. If I add a Phormium in the same green/gold I've instantly got a link with the foliage, but they're different shapes. I can add some orange nasturtiums and lilies and perhaps my Ligularia and that's another link - the Lig has orangey flowers but has big dark plum foliage, so you get a contrast there while having the harmony in the flower colour. I could then put in a dark Phormium or Canna which echoes the foliage of the Lig, and add a few dark reddish flowers - I have some lilies and nasturtiums in just that colour...and so on. You get a cohesive, compact, jungly, tropical look for a balcony or patio almost instantly because those are all happy in pots and you can swap round a few bits and pieces through the season. That would be for a sunnier spot certainly, but you'd be surprised how many hotter colours will be happy in some shade.
I seem to have strayed a bit from the 'white' topic bekkie ...sorry
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Fairy, go as off topic as you like! Im very grateful for the advice, im sure if it was someone elses garden, i wouldnt be so scared, to be fair i really cant waste mony at the moment either, in the past if i go off something, it gets passed on to mother, but as im not working, i dont want to get stuck with something i loathe!
Ive just walked past a lovely prarie like front garden, mainly golds and yellows, very nice, but that wouldnt work in a shady spot!
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The same has happened to me this year Verdun with some new sedum 'Citrus Twist' but they are coming out magenta
. Stands out like a sore thumb in my garden.
I love pastel/lilac pink. I'm not much of a one for colour matching. Tend to go for best growing conditions and colour turns up any where, but there can be happy accidents.
It's funny bekkie - I like certain colour combinations and dislike others too - but I think most of us probably do if we're honest! The hot colour schemes can be a bit of an acquired taste, but if you take a few plants in red and orange and add lots of big, contrasting foliage (green and dark purple work really well) you might find you can sneak a sizzling pink in there and it'll be terrific. Try grouping some pots together and gradually add a couple of things
Have I sold it to you?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I do like some hot colours now, but still dont like them mixed together, they remind me of park bedding schemes and grannies front gardens, you know what i mean? Those 60s displays with all the colours mixed in, just too much for my eyes! Bet you can guess my entire house is magnolia!
Also, the borders im working on can be quite shady, so deep colours are out arent they?
I do love echinecea tomato soup, but i havent a hope of growing that in this border!
I didn't bother to contact Jackson's Verd - which I should have done - so my own fault. I can stand the loss...you know what they say...toffs are careless!
It won't stop me using them again anyway. My own local nursery now has renardii so I'll get them there. I'm assuming neither is renardii although only one has flowered, but they look identical.
bekkie - The key is to do a little and gradually build it up. Keep the foliage colours in the same colour range and just vary the size, then add one hot colour -red, orange or yellow. I loathe the multi coloured bedding scheme thing too, but I like strong colours. For instance, I've got a green/gold Canna which will have orange flowers. If I add a Phormium in the same green/gold I've instantly got a link with the foliage, but they're different shapes. I can add some orange nasturtiums and lilies and perhaps my Ligularia and that's another link - the Lig has orangey flowers but has big dark plum foliage, so you get a contrast there while having the harmony in the flower colour. I could then put in a dark Phormium or Canna which echoes the foliage of the Lig, and add a few dark reddish flowers - I have some lilies and nasturtiums in just that colour...and so on. You get a cohesive, compact, jungly, tropical look for a balcony or patio almost instantly because those are all happy in pots and you can swap round a few bits and pieces through the season. That would be for a sunnier spot certainly, but you'd be surprised how many hotter colours will be happy in some shade.
I seem to have strayed a bit from the 'white' topic bekkie ...sorry
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have just bought a Choisya sundance, thats white evergreen and likes shade, and cost 1.30, needs potting up but will be good next year.
my garden is like an explosion in the paint factory, if it grows for me, it stays. Any colours, I just love them all.
Fairy, go as off topic as you like! Im very grateful for the advice, im sure if it was someone elses garden, i wouldnt be so scared, to be fair i really cant waste mony at the moment either, in the past if i go off something, it gets passed on to mother, but as im not working, i dont want to get stuck with something i loathe!
Ive just walked past a lovely prarie like front garden, mainly golds and yellows, very nice, but that wouldnt work in a shady spot!