Re: Future trends in colours

From: Bill Shear <BILLS@hsc.edu>


>I heard about the orange yellow purple trend last year and my entire 98
>annual garden was orange and purple. My neighbors are still in the pink
>lavender white mode and my front yard really stood out! Since I plan to
>have all colors of Iris, I am sure that I will have some orange yellow
>and purple but not as a group.

Where do these 'trends' come from?  Are they like fashion in clothes--some
people at the top get together and decree what we will all be growing?  As
an example, last year it was obviously sunflowers--nearly every major seed
house featured pages of sunflowers and many had sunflowers on the catalog
cover.  Not that I'm against sunflowers, but something in me rebels at
being told what's the 'latest' and what I should plant.

Anyway, looks like I'm fashionable after all, with my bed of orange
Tithonia gradually being smothered by purple hyacinth beans.

Bill Shear
Department of Biology
Hampden-Sydney College
Hampden-Sydney VA 23943
(804)223-6172
FAX (804)223-6374
email<bills@hsc.edu>

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