Future trends in colours

Greetings all from a wet and soggy Sydney!
 
We have had more rain in August than we usually have in an entire year!  Needless to say the Louisiana Iris are loving it, but the TB's are looking like last week's pizza - less than appetising!
 
I would be pleased if those of you who have a particular feeling about this matter to give me your comments on an interesting experience that I had last April while Iris Haven was attending the large Garden Festival here in Sydney.
 
Our stand was located next to a company who do nothing but genetically create unusual flowers and sell them all around the world.  They had on their display some orange gerberas which they cultivate in Equador which looked more like chrysanthemums than gerberas.  They also had some genetically-engineers mauve and violet carnations that were to die for called "Moon Shadow" carnations.    
 
I asked them why their display featured orange and purple flowers only and was told that these are the "new colours that will feature in gardens around the world in the next few years".   I didn't know that the colour trends could be so easily changed, but appreciate that these folk were in the "bottomless pockets financially" bracket and if they wanted to change the current colours they could convince us all that this was what we really wanted anyway!!
 
 I must admit that I have, since that time, made a special point of scouring the gardening magazines here and found that the new colours that are coming in for Spring and Summer here appear to be in the orange, red, yellow and purple hues.   While visiting nurseries I have also noticed that the popular white, pink and blue hues have lessened in numbers and our suppliers are asking for more orange and purple....
 
Perhaps those of you on iris-talk might like to provide their comments on this possible change in colour trends, and advise what you think of orange and purple-hued iris (of any type)?
 
I do not particularly wish for you all to take the trouble to name particular varieties of iris, just talk about the changing trends in colour popularity in iris, and give me your thoughts on orange and purple in your gardens of the future.
 
Cheers for now.    Heather Pryor     i*@pip.com.au
 
 
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