I grow loads of blue perennials and shrubs but I want more orange flowers. Ideas please. I have echinacea tiki torch, marmalade and summer sun, have orange dahlias, crocosmia and couple of annuals.
I recently bought a beautiful scented orange flowered azalea, to go with the yellow one I already have. My small garden will be full of scent in May when they are out. Orange Welsh poppies will flower through the late spring and summer. You could also go for some annuals as California poppies, pot marigolds (saw some beautiful marigolds at Harlow Carr yesterday).
I too love orange flowers, mixed with blue, cream and white. Nasturtiums are very useful and they self seed. I especially like the ones with variagated leaves and coral/orange flowers. Then there are tulips and I believe there is an orange form of Campsis (I have the yellow one; a strong creamy custard colour; not at all insipid). Also Cheonomeles (?) and an almost luminous Berberis; 'Orange King'. 'Apricot Twist' is a great wallflower, B&Q often have it in the spring.Would be very interested to hear about your blue flowers; all the ones I get from nurseries end up being purple; especially Aubretia.
I love orange flowers and when I saw this Coreopsis 'mango punch' in the garden centre, I just had to have it. It's so unusual it almost looks like the flowers are in a meadow situation and insects love it too!
Buddleia globosa; crocosmia; Chilean Glory vine - climber; Hope you win the lottery to get a bigger garden to put all the plant suggections in and be able to afford them too! Though the glory vine will grow from seed easily.
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Geums, varieties of heleniums, roses, wallflowers, some forms of achillea, alstroemaria, hemerocallis, kniphofia, euphorbia................
I too love orange flowers, mixed with blue, cream and white. Nasturtiums are very useful and they self seed. I especially like the ones with variagated leaves and coral/orange flowers. Then there are tulips and I believe there is an orange form of Campsis (I have the yellow one; a strong creamy custard colour; not at all insipid). Also Cheonomeles (?) and an almost luminous Berberis; 'Orange King'. 'Apricot Twist' is a great wallflower, B&Q often have it in the spring.Would be very interested to hear about your blue flowers; all the ones I get from nurseries end up being purple; especially Aubretia.
how about orange marigolds on mass,thats pretty.
another vote for orange French marigolds and geums here
I love orange flowers and when I saw this Coreopsis 'mango punch' in the garden centre, I just had to have it. It's so unusual it almost looks like the flowers are in a meadow situation and insects love it too!
Buddleia globosa; crocosmia; Chilean Glory vine - climber; Hope you win the lottery to get a bigger garden to put all the plant suggections in and be able to afford them too! Though the glory vine will grow from seed easily.