Hi Verdun - thanks for naming the orange lillies as 'Enchantment' - that's what mine were. You see - I must have disliked them so much that I became negligent even of their name! They were beautifully strong I have to say. I think the fault with me was that I probably never placed them somewhere imaginative enough to grow to love them. ?
I have a very pretty apricot potentilla which looked lovely next to pale blue ageratum last year.
Despite digging up clumps of it over the past few years the bright orange crocosmia is still going strong in my front garden, I can't get rid of it. I was surprised to see it being used in the small gardens on the Chelsea Challenge programme, maybe it's "on trend" at the moment.
Just got myself attached to two gladiator lupins with orange and yellow petal colour really looking forward to some sunshine so I can see them in action!
Geum, berberis darwinii, tulips, crocosmia, day lily, calendula, rose, pansy, welsh poppy, California poppy, gaillarda, and think its a helenium r something that looks like that. Didn't realise I had so much orange.
I've only grown the orange of wallflowers: orangey/reddish/pale creamy orange(?)/caramel, bundles from the local market. Sounds odd but underplanted with forget-me-nots, topped by slender red tulips was one of my more successful 'cottage borders'. Never quite managed the same since.
Hmm, now there's a thought to orange and purple. Maybe plant wallflowers in the border with the purple crocus next spring.
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Hi Verdun - thanks for naming the orange lillies as 'Enchantment' - that's what mine were. You see - I must have disliked them so much that I became negligent even of their name! They were beautifully strong I have to say. I think the fault with me was that I probably never placed them somewhere imaginative enough to grow to love them. ?
I have a very pretty apricot potentilla which looked lovely next to pale blue ageratum last year.
Despite digging up clumps of it over the past few years the bright orange crocosmia is still going strong in my front garden, I can't get rid of it. I was surprised to see it being used in the small gardens on the Chelsea Challenge programme, maybe it's "on trend" at the moment.
Just got myself attached to two gladiator lupins with orange and yellow petal colour really looking forward to some sunshine so I can see them in action!
A lovely combination I saw at Chelsea, was Lupinus Masterpiece, with an Orange Geum and Anchusa Loddon Royalist, stunning.
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I love orange flowers - I have a few geums, a tangerine poppy, hardy gerbera, crocosmia, lillies.
Always on the look out for more - so will be looking up some of the names of other things you have listed above
Geum, berberis darwinii, tulips, crocosmia, day lily, calendula, rose, pansy, welsh poppy, California poppy, gaillarda, and think its a helenium r something that looks like that. Didn't realise I had so much orange.
Have to admit that Lupin caught my eye Pdoc,
Think it might go wonderfully in the hotter part of my garden
I've only grown the orange of wallflowers: orangey/reddish/pale creamy orange(?)/caramel, bundles from the local market. Sounds odd but underplanted with forget-me-nots, topped by slender red tulips was one of my more successful 'cottage borders'. Never quite managed the same since.
Hmm, now there's a thought to orange and purple. Maybe plant wallflowers in the border with the purple crocus next spring.
Will you get Crocus and Wallflowers to bloom together though?
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border