Re: plant combinations

Those really are pretty oddball combinations, Auralie.  Maybe  they'll grow
on you.  I've had some combinations I didn't like, but none that really made
me uncomfortable.
Kitty
neIN, Z5
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 1:14 PM
Subject: [CHAT] plant combinations


> In past discussions people have told about serendipitous plant
> combinations - things that looked especially good together even
> though they had not been planned that way.  That does happen
> often but this year I have twice experienced the opposite. I don't
> know a word for it, but combinations that just don't work.  I had
> always accepted the theory that colors in nature never really
> clashed - flower colors would always harmonize.  But this spring
> my orange poppies bloomed at the same time as my 'Gay Paree'
> peony - never happened before - and the orange poppies were
> a terrible combination with the fuschia peony.  Of course, both
> bloomed more lavishly than ever before.  Oh well, these things
> happen.  But now it has happened again.  My Canada lilies
> (Lilium canadense) are just making a mass of orange when
> up pops a cosmos from a mixed package that is brilliant purple.
> It is a very large, handsome cosmos - bigger both in bloom and
> in height than the rest of the bunch which are mostly soft pinks and
> whites - but it stands right up against the orange lilies.  Ouch!  I
> guess I will have to cut the cosmos back until the lilies have done
> with their blooming.  Never had this problem before.  It must be
> an effect of global warming.
> Auralie
>
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