Lovely garden. Did anything suffer from the recent heatwave? Great heleniums (too bad the orange colour is banned from my garden). I particularly like your mixed border in photo #3. How wide and long is it? Have you posted somewhere the details of its plants?
I think orange gets a bad press sometimes. If you associate it well with other planting, it can be stunning, and will actually lift the other plants by giving them a good contrast. It's particularly good with purples and deep reds.
Orange tulips with dark Phormiums for instance.
Ligularia Britt Marie Crawford with it's orange daisy flowers and dark foliage.
Cannas
Am I convincing you Papi Jo?
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It did rain yesterday, so it looks a bit fresher today. The colours come and go, the long border, which is 20m x 2m, was quite yellow and red with Lychnis Chalcedonica, Monarda Cambridge Scarlet and Lysimachia Punctata, has changed colour and will soon be full of white phlox and yellow rudbeckias. In June it was more pink with Albertine roses and pink geraniums. In the autumn there will be pink and purple Michaelmas daisies.
I don't ban any colours, I like orange with purples, reds and blues, zingy. Never looks as bright in the photos as it does in real life.
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Garden beautiful as ever BL
@ Andy Leeds,
Thanks for your appreciation. On your photo I like the association of complementary colours of the orange heleniums and the violet-blue salvia (?).
@BL,
Lovely garden. Did anything suffer from the recent heatwave? Great heleniums (too bad the orange colour is banned from my garden). I particularly like your mixed border in photo #3. How wide and long is it? Have you posted somewhere the details of its plants?
And many thanks to all who posted flattering (and encouraging) comments. More pics on my garden site here: http://www.rezeau.org/wp-garden/en/garden-scenes-may-2016/
Lovely pix Andy, and of course, BL - as always.
I think orange gets a bad press sometimes. If you associate it well with other planting, it can be stunning, and will actually lift the other plants by giving them a good contrast. It's particularly good with purples and deep reds.
Orange tulips with dark Phormiums for instance.
Ligularia Britt Marie Crawford with it's orange daisy flowers and dark foliage.
Cannas
Am I convincing you Papi Jo?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
great pics, love the heleniums ,ligularia one of my favourites
. your garden looking lush BL considering the amount of heat.
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It did rain yesterday, so it looks a bit fresher today. The colours come and go, the long border, which is 20m x 2m, was quite yellow and red with Lychnis Chalcedonica, Monarda Cambridge Scarlet and Lysimachia Punctata, has changed colour and will soon be full of white phlox and yellow rudbeckias. In June it was more pink with Albertine roses and pink geraniums. In the autumn there will be pink and purple Michaelmas daisies.
I don't ban any colours, I like orange with purples, reds and blues, zingy. Never looks as bright in the photos as it does in real life.
The light - time of the day - affects the colour too BL
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Simply stunning BL!
Thank you
Hi everyone, these are some pictures I took in Menorca three weeks ago.
Love that last one flumpy.
Looks like you had good weather too!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...