RE: PURPLE! My new neutral!

> new loves!...columbines until this year....once I saw their alien-like
> flowers, I was hooked (no pun intended)!

Fran, 
From your description, I assume you mean the spurred columbines. 
Eventually you'll have to get doubles (no spurs) and Granny's Bonnets.  and
don't forget the diminutive ones - full size flowers on plants only 6
inches tall!  Most are generous about self-sowing, so watch for babies
coming up here and there in the coming years.
Re:
> - coreopsis,..
> yarrow, rudebeckia (sp???)....salvia 
These are all sun plants here.  Hopefully you're not all shade.  However, I
do have Japanese Yellow Sage that takes deep shade.
Re:
> a tribute to Roswell - flowers and plants that look like the aliens
brought
My family likes to joke about my Jurassic Park Plants.  It started with
Plume Poppy - about 8ft tall and now any big plant gets them into JP jokes.

Kitty

> [Original Message]
> From: fm4re <fm4re@swbell.net>
> To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
> Date: 6/9/2003 8:18:48 PM
> Subject: [CHAT] PURPLE!  My new neutral!
>
> Well I just got in from (sorta) admiring all the effort and plants that
I've
> planted this spring.  What I realized is that I've been using purple as a
> neutral for trying to tie together my pinks/blues/lavendars to the
sections
> with yellows.
>
> Although my initial intent was for the soft pastels and layout of an
English
> type garden, I live in the zone rarely discussed - The Gardening Twilight
> Zone!  Here I am in Zone 7 but my trees give me too much shade but my dirt
> gives me too much dryness but the sun doesnt shine anywhere for more than
4
> hours, etc. . . . (you fill in the blanks).  Now I'm happy to get any
> blasted plant to grow and bloom or return next year!
>
> I've gone nute on some yellows and almost oranges - coreopsis, columbine,
> yarrow, rudebeckia (sp???).  But they look pretty good next to my salvia
and
> heuchera in the shadier parts.  Oh yeah, coral bells and columbine are my
> new loves!  I guess that I never notice columbines until this year. Always
> seen them in the book, pictures, etc. but once I saw their alien-like
> flowers, I was hooked (no pun intended)!  Hmmm maybe I could do a garden
as
> a tribute to Roswell - flowers and plants that look like the aliens
brought
> them down . . . must be the Oklahoma heat getting to me . . . I 'm off for
> some chocolate ice cream now.  Later, Fran, OKC, (Twilight) Zone 7
>
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