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There's orangey........
orange flowers....love em or hate em?
I like orange...grow a few like geums, echinaceas,,dahlias, etc. However, many don't like orange yet it lifts a garden. Not just orange and blue/purple but with yellows, with purple foliage,,etc. etc.
what oranges do you folks grow?
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Crocosmia Emily Mckensie is a subtle orange to yellow flower and some astatic Lily's I have are a orange flower
I love this colour in my garden because you state it combines and contrasts with darker coloured follige of shrubs and any purple or blue flowered plants
I love Emilia Irish Poet which I sow direct in the garden as part of my tiny wildflower patch. I mash all the colours together of the tall seeds sown so I mix it in with Tall Blue Cornflower, Scarlet Flax and Nigella. You need a good clump of them to have any effect. I always find they are the last seeds to shoot though which is a bit frustrating and they end up looking a mess if they're in a windy spot.
Love also a deep orange wallflower - don't know the name - cheap B&Q plugs last year just labelled 'Wallflower' which have grown to 4 foot this year - and I mixed them with a pale peachy wallflower. They smell lovely and look great with the more subtle peach.
I had lovely geums 3 years ago - but last year not a single one of the 4 plants appeared at all. Eaten from below I suspect or the winter 'did for them'. Maybe they don't last many years. They were startling in amongst bluebells.
I did have orange lilies - think they were called Splendour? Had them in a clump in a pot. They bloomed strongly and hugely every year but for some reason I took a real dislike to them. I stealthily ignored them last year - didn't water or feed - and they still bloomed like mad. In the autumn I tipped them out and got rid. I don't miss them. I couldn't describe what it was I didn't like about them though. Only the second time I've 'disliked' a plant after the first year. (The other dislike was pink fluffy astilbes. After 3 years I could bear them no longer. It was just too much pink and they got bigger and bigger and bigger...).
I have a few orange and yellow calendulas scattered about in the borders (self seeded mostly). Their bright little flowers are so cheerful and lighten things up.
Orange with purple is something I much prefer to blue/yellow which I don't like at all. Orange is brilliant against purple foliage. I love my Ligularia Marie Britt Crawford - lots of superb orange daisies with dramatic purple foliage which is dark green underneath.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Look at some of the Chelsea planting this year, lots of blues / purples combined with oranges.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I mix blues and purples with orange. Haven't gotten round to orange Echinacea yet, but I do have lots of Knifophia, Crocosmia, Potentilla nepalensis Miss Wilmott (which OH says is pink but like that dress, I see orange ) and Verbascum Clementine.
I grow annual Rudbeckia and Calendula en mass and I have a keen interest in orange blooms that are flushed with pink or vice versa. Climbing rose Summer Wine is one of my favourite, honeysuckle, I have the rose Hot Chocolate which begins a deep rusty colour and finishes somewhere in dusky pink. It's marvellous. I include the orange berries of my Pyracantha in the mix and I'm waiting to see just how burnt my orangey iris Cable Car is
More orange for me please
Have just started making an orange flower bed with calendula, gladioli, Rosa Casanova, around a pretty potted maple but still loads of soil to cover planted 3rosemary for their foliage but am off out to GC today to hunt for more bits.I've got geum mrs Bradshaw ?? Orange in a long bed but don't want to move them. It's lovely and sunny so would like to finish it
I've got an orangey-red geum (Flames of Passion
) and an orangey-red aquilegia both growing by a Hosta Hadspens Blue - fab combination 
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There's nothing better than a bright rudbeckia in late summer, and crocosmia spikes. One year my husband scattered some seeds he had collected the year before but had forgotten to label. What a lovely surprise when the calendula were joined by beautiful blue cornflowers - what a fabulous colour mix!