I have tulip Princes Irene in a tub, underplanted with apricot pansies and Heuchera Palace Purple. The purple flush on the tulip makes it all work beautifully. I like orange, have quite a lot, love all the autumn colours in heleniums and rudbeckias. Last year had great fun playing with orange-pinks: Kniphofia 'Mango Popsicle' with a splendid pinky-red echinacea with a big orange cone (Bravado I think) and Crocosmia 'Carmin Brilliant' being the main players. On our rockery/ gravel bed we have brown Carex with Hemerocallis 'Corky' , with the bronzy petal backs, and Agastache 'Apricot Sprite' with supporting Achilleas. Two lovely dahlias that blend well in borders are 'Ellen Huston' (already flowering in my greenhouse) rich orange with dark foliage at around 40-45cm and 'Scura', which doesn't look like a dahlia at all. It too has dark foliage, with lots of single daisy-like flowers hardly bigger than a 50p coin, in cheerful orange with a darker centre. It only grows about 30cm high, but has a lax sprawly habit so that the little flowers pop up in the middle of other things most unexpectedly. Mine has proved to be a really good doer too, with the number of tubers increasing year on year.
I almost didn't buy it because of the awful name (!) but it is such an unusual shade of pinky orange or orangey pink. I got mine from Bob Brown )Cotswold Garden Flowers) and I loved it last year as it flowered well and I am pleased that it has come through the winter unscathed; though it wasn't one of our worst, some Kniphofias are rather too tender to survive here. The flowers are quite delicate and the leaves are of the more grassy variety and actually don't look too bad even after the winter. In Cornwall they would probably stay completely green! It's not very tall so I planted it at the front of my sunny border above a low drystone wall so I could be sure the drainage was good. Lack of water isn't generally a problem here!
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Ah, no, got carried away there
so another thought would be purple primula as a sort of succession planting or ??? Re
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I have tulip Princes Irene in a tub, underplanted with apricot pansies and Heuchera Palace Purple. The purple flush on the tulip makes it all work beautifully. I like orange, have quite a lot, love all the autumn colours in heleniums and rudbeckias. Last year had great fun playing with orange-pinks: Kniphofia 'Mango Popsicle' with a splendid pinky-red echinacea with a big orange cone (Bravado I think) and Crocosmia 'Carmin Brilliant' being the main players. On our rockery/ gravel bed we have brown Carex with Hemerocallis 'Corky' , with the bronzy petal backs, and Agastache 'Apricot Sprite' with supporting Achilleas. Two lovely dahlias that blend well in borders are 'Ellen Huston' (already flowering in my greenhouse) rich orange with dark foliage at around 40-45cm and 'Scura', which doesn't look like a dahlia at all. It too has dark foliage, with lots of single daisy-like flowers hardly bigger than a 50p coin, in cheerful orange with a darker centre. It only grows about 30cm high, but has a lax sprawly habit so that the little flowers pop up in the middle of other things most unexpectedly. Mine has proved to be a really good doer too, with the number of tubers increasing year on year.
Dahlia 'Pooh' is a lovely flower though not completely orange.
Trollius 'Orange Crest' is beautiful too
I almost didn't buy it because of the awful name (!) but it is such an unusual shade of pinky orange or orangey pink. I got mine from Bob Brown )Cotswold Garden Flowers) and I loved it last year as it flowered well and I am pleased that it has come through the winter unscathed; though it wasn't one of our worst, some Kniphofias are rather too tender to survive here. The flowers are quite delicate and the leaves are of the more grassy variety and actually don't look too bad even after the winter. In Cornwall they would probably stay completely green! It's not very tall so I planted it at the front of my sunny border above a low drystone wall so I could be sure the drainage was good. Lack of water isn't generally a problem here!