Wintersong, I always think that Tulips die beautifully, whether in the ground, pots or the flower vase and I always leave them as long as possible to do their thing, slowly twisting, fading, changing colour and losing their petals. Sad, but beautiful.
Oh haha. How wonderful! I mean...thanks for the tip
It's definitely a possibility. They even have foliage changes, I have two Hebe Red edge in the purple garden but that's because the edges are purple, not red
Isn't it also curious how differently we can perceive colour? I swear that my Potentilla Miss Willmott is Salmon in colour but my husband calls it pink...look, it's pink, it's no where near Salmon.
Ooh Wintersong, I love Queen of the Night! And mostly everything already mentioned, actually. What is your Death Garden?!
Got my first ever garden 2 and a half years ago and was very determined to keep it all blue/purple/white/silver to start with. Typical of the uninitiated
Then maroons/dark purples/almost blacks started creeping in to accentuate the whites and silvers...followed by bright orange geums...then splashes of yellow...and my favourite now is dark plums and lime greens.
Especially love dark purple violets with white alyssum, black nigra grass with snowdrops, Queen of night tulips with white ones edged in pink...clouds of blue brunnera over teeny yellow narcissus, lime marmalade heucheras against purple hellebores and acer palmatum.
All colours really - they all fit together because of the amount of green that comes with most plants. There have been some accidental colour mixtures that I did not, would not have, planned, and they have been remarkably good. Nature just does what we cannot do, gets it right most of the time. I think the main difference in peoples gardens, as far as colour is concerned, is how formal they want to be. If you want a fairly formal layout then that choice will probably influence the colours you use and put togethr. My garden could not be less formal, so the rather riotous look lends itself more to colour combinations we might not choose in a more formal setting.
Some of the gardens people show here are just so amazingly good, beautifully designed and so on, and I love to see and admire them - but they are not my style. There is room for all of us, and our colour choices I think.
Also our colour perception changes with age I think - my friend disliked yellow in her garden for years, and now enjoys it in moderation. I suspect she sees it differently now - our older eyes may not percieve colour quite as clearly as we once did.
My garden in West London was 'ever so tasteful', shades of green and a bit of blue and frankly rather boring. Now I am under the huge skies of the fens, surrounded by green fields I want colour! I no longer care about 'good taste' having had 40 odd years of working in Interior Design as a mural painter; I want the colours and shapes that I like. Unlike wintersong I can't define the 'feeling' that I am aiming for, perhaps to define it would mean that I would have to move onto something new.
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Wintersong, my hebe is in shade so it has never flowered, or it has been so dicreet that I have never noticed.
Wintersong, I always think that Tulips die beautifully, whether in the ground, pots or the flower vase and I always leave them as long as possible to do their thing, slowly twisting, fading, changing colour and losing their petals. Sad, but beautiful.
Have I got the right idea?
Oh haha. How wonderful! I mean...thanks for the tip
It's definitely a possibility. They even have foliage changes, I have two Hebe Red edge in the purple garden but that's because the edges are purple, not red
Isn't it also curious how differently we can perceive colour? I swear that my Potentilla Miss Willmott is Salmon in colour but my husband calls it pink...look, it's pink, it's no where near Salmon.
Yes Woodgreen. I adore tulips for being so elegant. I have queen of the night in my Death garden
Ooh Wintersong, I love Queen of the Night! And mostly everything already mentioned, actually. What is your Death Garden?!
Got my first ever garden 2 and a half years ago and was very determined to keep it all blue/purple/white/silver to start with. Typical of the uninitiated
Then maroons/dark purples/almost blacks started creeping in to accentuate the whites and silvers...followed by bright orange geums...then splashes of yellow...and my favourite now is dark plums and lime greens.
Especially love dark purple violets with white alyssum, black nigra grass with snowdrops, Queen of night tulips with white ones edged in pink...clouds of blue brunnera over teeny yellow narcissus, lime marmalade heucheras against purple hellebores and acer palmatum.
Aaaaaah....
All colours really - they all fit together because of the amount of green that comes with most plants. There have been some accidental colour mixtures that I did not, would not have, planned, and they have been remarkably good. Nature just does what we cannot do, gets it right most of the time. I think the main difference in peoples gardens, as far as colour is concerned, is how formal they want to be. If you want a fairly formal layout then that choice will probably influence the colours you use and put togethr. My garden could not be less formal, so the rather riotous look lends itself more to colour combinations we might not choose in a more formal setting.
Some of the gardens people show here are just so amazingly good, beautifully designed and so on, and I love to see and admire them - but they are not my style. There is room for all of us, and our colour choices I think.
Also our colour perception changes with age I think - my friend disliked yellow in her garden for years, and now enjoys it in moderation. I suspect she sees it differently now - our older eyes may not percieve colour quite as clearly as we once did.
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My efforts with colour fall down because I'm always putting in that extra plant because it needs a home.
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My garden in West London was 'ever so tasteful', shades of green and a bit of blue and frankly rather boring. Now I am under the huge skies of the fens, surrounded by green fields I want colour! I no longer care about 'good taste' having had 40 odd years of working in Interior Design as a mural painter; I want the colours and shapes that I like. Unlike wintersong I can't define the 'feeling' that I am aiming for, perhaps to define it would mean that I would have to move onto something new.