Lou I have the same problem with winter flowering pansies - they usually look great when I buy them in October/November then the flowers finish and don't return until about April - same with Polyanthus - by the time they look good I am just about ready to put in summer bedding.
WW my bessie mate and I often pass over something we're not keen on because we know the other will like it. It's been working for us for all the time we've known each other and that's a looooong time. If we both liked the same things we'd have fallen out ages ago. I'm now laughing at the very thought of orange plants in her garden
I find michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums incredibly depressing. Once they start to flower, it means it's all over for this year. Equally depressing are the empty stages in the garden centres.
It takes a few weeks for me to acknowledge the displays of spring bulbs and packets of seeds to look forward to the future and next year's gardening hopes
PS. I love very orange with very blue but I wouldn't go as far as begonias. Calendula - yes.
Marigolds, I don't know why I planted them, I don't like their shape and all but one got munched to bits by the slugs.
Predicatably I'll plan on growing more Hostas next year, heucheras, snap dragons, sweet peas, and nemesia. I'd like to get some more grasses for next year too.
i will not be growing hollyhocks again i've had them two yrs running and get ugly rust infected leaves, so i have hoiked them out. The cistus x laxus evergreens that supposedly have white flowers and produce roughly one flour per four weeks if that and the flowers last a day, then have to wait another four weeks grrr. i love my white frilly gladioli but all of them fall over, my purple clematis (name escapes me) that is covered in blackspot from the time it starts growing,
I love petunias but unlike most years i stick with a maximum of three colours, i got carried away and bought 60 mixed plugs that i planted willy nilly and had a rather strange mix of colours this year
foxgloves i love the most
need to find some nice late flowering plants as garden s rather bare of flowers apart from a few summer bulbs and verbena bonariensis although i have petunia & trailing verbena big tubs& troughs everywhere which still look lovely, although i shall have loads of deadheading tomo after the rain. My hydrangea silver dollar and limelight are lovely and with huge cream flowers are beautiful
A lot of people don't like marigolds and I certainly don't like them in the beds.
I always grow marigolds in a large hanging basket to avoid slug damage and keep and dry the petals for our Day of the Dead celebrations in October. They also bring back memories of religious festivals when I lived in the tropics, everything was decorated in marigold flowers. As I can't have the flowers in October we scatter the petals and make big paper marigolds to decorate the room.
I also make a nice facecream out of the petals every year. I am just about to harvest the last lot to make a burns treatment. I am always burning myself on the oven or the iron.
I like orange too, teamed with reds and yellows, in my hot border. Have Cannas, Dahlias, Geums, Calendula, Crocosmia etc. Although I have to admit that, the bed is best viewed with shades on.
Sadly L. Queen Victoria was destroyed by slugs, which is a shame, as it went beautifully in that colour scheme,
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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Lou I have the same problem with winter flowering pansies - they usually look great when I buy them in October/November then the flowers finish and don't return until about April - same with Polyanthus - by the time they look good I am just about ready to put in summer bedding.
Ahh Dove! EXPOSED!....." I gave my totally tangerine to Wonky cuz it was too orange" indeed!
No such thing as too orange unless we are talking fake tan!
goes great with purple! 
Thanks for the geum......love it!
WW my bessie mate and I often pass over something we're not keen on because we know the other will like it. It's been working for us for all the time we've known each other and that's a looooong time.
If we both liked the same things we'd have fallen out ages ago. I'm now laughing at the very thought of orange plants in her garden 
I find michaelmas daisies and chrysanthemums incredibly depressing. Once they start to flower, it means it's all over for this year. Equally depressing are the empty stages in the garden centres.
It takes a few weeks for me to acknowledge the displays of spring bulbs and packets of seeds to look forward to the future and next year's gardening hopes
PS. I love very orange with very blue but I wouldn't go as far as begonias. Calendula - yes.
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Marigolds, I don't know why I planted them, I don't like their shape and all but one got munched to bits by the slugs.
Predicatably I'll plan on growing more Hostas next year, heucheras, snap dragons, sweet peas, and nemesia. I'd like to get some more grasses for next year too.
i will not be growing hollyhocks again i've had them two yrs running and get ugly rust infected leaves, so i have hoiked them out. The cistus x laxus evergreens that supposedly have white flowers and produce roughly one flour per four weeks if that and the flowers last a day, then have to wait another four weeks grrr. i love my white frilly gladioli but all of them fall over, my purple clematis (name escapes me) that is covered in blackspot from the time it starts growing,
I love petunias but unlike most years i stick with a maximum of three colours, i got carried away and bought 60 mixed plugs that i planted willy nilly and had a rather strange mix of colours this year
foxgloves i love the most
need to find some nice late flowering plants as garden s rather bare of flowers apart from a few summer bulbs and verbena bonariensis although i have petunia & trailing verbena big tubs& troughs everywhere which still look lovely, although i shall have loads of deadheading tomo after the rain. My hydrangea silver dollar and limelight are lovely and with huge cream flowers are beautiful
A lot of people don't like marigolds and I certainly don't like them in the beds.
I always grow marigolds in a large hanging basket to avoid slug damage and keep and dry the petals for our Day of the Dead celebrations in October. They also bring back memories of religious festivals when I lived in the tropics, everything was decorated in marigold flowers. As I can't have the flowers in October we scatter the petals and make big paper marigolds to decorate the room.
I also make a nice facecream out of the petals every year. I am just about to harvest the last lot to make a burns treatment. I am always burning myself on the oven or the iron.
I like orange too, teamed with reds and yellows, in my hot border. Have Cannas, Dahlias, Geums, Calendula, Crocosmia etc. Although I have to admit that, the bed is best viewed with shades on.
Sadly L. Queen Victoria was destroyed by slugs, which is a shame, as it went beautifully in that colour scheme,
When you don't even know who's in the team
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I have also given up growing rust in my garden. It's a pity as hollyhocks are attractive. flowers.
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