There's yellow ........... and then there's yellow ................ harsh acid cold yellows, or warm yellows which have ever such a slight hint of orange or brown.
Not keen on the harsh cold yellows in the garden but love the warm yellows, especially the rudbeckias etc in late summer and autumn.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well, if it will grow, resist slugs and stand up on it's own, I am prepared to like almost anything. What I do object to is plants so manipulated by us as to look unnatural or even tortured - step over fruit trees, and bonsai, yellow geraniums and blue roses, oh! and those foxgloves that face upwards. You have to think context, too. I am not keen on traditional bedding plants but done properly, as they do at Osborne House, and it's spectacular.
I loved my aucuba in my last garden but Himself hated it. Wanted one in this garden - he put his foot down. Personally, I hate irises so they are a no no for me. I also spent many, many years getting rid of periwinkle (vinca) and lamium in my last garden; every time I thought I'd beaten them into submission, up they would pop again. The people who originally landscaped the garden did a lot of blue and yellow and I understand were really good gardeners, keeping everything in check. Our vendors were not, just kept stuff tidy, so by the time we got in there the said vinca and lamium had taken over...what thugs they are!
Now I've thought more and I agree about vinca and lamium, they've tried to take over here too, but they are OK in the right place. I love bluebells, but in the woods not the garden. And I actually agree with Verdun about crocuses. I once planted 400 here, but I don't think they like the hot dry summer and they all died after a few years. They flower such a short time and they need sun to open properly at an unsunny time of year.
Also, Jo reminded me on another thread (or was it this one?) that I don't like don't like Helleborus foetidus, the stinking hellebore. I've read on a site about them "All parts of the plant are poisonous, causing violent vomiting and delirium" and I think they are ugly.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
In my garden, never altogether. I like to remember the people who gave me plants, especially as in many cases the plants have outlived them! So I still have Mum's montbretia, Ruth's peonies and Mrs White's veronica, among others and it adds another layer of meaning to a wander round the garden.
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There's yellow ........... and then there's yellow ................ harsh acid cold yellows, or warm yellows which have ever such a slight hint of orange or brown.
Not keen on the harsh cold yellows in the garden but love the warm yellows, especially the rudbeckias etc in late summer and autumn.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Well, if it will grow, resist slugs and stand up on it's own, I am prepared to like almost anything. What I do object to is plants so manipulated by us as to look unnatural or even tortured - step over fruit trees, and bonsai, yellow geraniums and blue roses, oh! and those foxgloves that face upwards. You have to think context, too. I am not keen on traditional bedding plants but done properly, as they do at Osborne House, and it's spectacular.
I loved my aucuba in my last garden but Himself hated it. Wanted one in this garden - he put his foot down. Personally, I hate irises so they are a no no for me. I also spent many, many years getting rid of periwinkle (vinca) and lamium in my last garden; every time I thought I'd beaten them into submission, up they would pop again
. The people who originally landscaped the garden did a lot of blue and yellow and I understand were really good gardeners, keeping everything in check. Our vendors were not, just kept stuff tidy, so by the time we got in there the said vinca and lamium had taken over...what thugs they are!
Now I've thought more and I agree about vinca and lamium, they've tried to take over here too, but they are OK in the right place. I love bluebells, but in the woods not the garden. And I actually agree with Verdun about crocuses. I once planted 400 here, but I don't think they like the hot dry summer and they all died after a few years. They flower such a short time and they need sun to open properly at an unsunny time of year.
Also, Jo reminded me on another thread (or was it this one?) that I don't like don't like Helleborus foetidus, the stinking hellebore. I've read on a site about them "All parts of the plant are poisonous, causing violent vomiting and delirium" and I think they are ugly.
so are mine Philippa
love them
In the sticks near Peterborough
In my garden, never altogether. I like to remember the people who gave me plants, especially as in many cases the plants have outlived them! So I still have Mum's montbretia, Ruth's peonies and Mrs White's veronica, among others and it adds another layer of meaning to a wander round the garden.