----- Original Message -----
From:
T*@PlantSoup.Com
To: m*@ucdavis.edu
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 6:20
PM
Subject: Re: Heat Loving Plants with
Orange Berries, Leaves And Flowers?
Hello,
I am going to redo my front
yard with heat loving plants since it faces west and gets very hot in
summer. I want to use some plants with orange leaves, berries or
flowers to pick up the color of my front door which is painted Red Cayenne
(which is sort of an orange/pink/red color combination).
Two plants I can think of
are a ground cover type pyracantha with orange berries and an orange sedge
which Annie's Annuals has and I have grown at another location and
was quite happy with.
I did get on a site from
England that talked about a beautiful tree called Sorbus 'Sheerwater
Seedling' which had spectacular orange berries but I am not sure where I
would get this plant.
Can anyone recommend any other
plants. I don't want to use plants that grow over 4 to 6 feet high (I
don't want them to block out the front windows
completely).
Thanks for your
help.
Linda
Springville
Gardens
Hi LInda
Orange is my favorite garden color! There is a toyon that is
supposed to have orange berries. It was grown by the SAratoga
Horticultural foundation and I don't recall the variety name but someone on
the list will know. I haven't found it in the trade but if you find it,
I'd like one too!
Other orange colored heat lovers:
- Aloes (leaves and/or flowers depending on species)
- Glaucium flavum (apricot flowers, ask at Annie's Annuals)
- Salvia africana-lutea
- Several kinds of grevilleas
- Epilobium (formerly zauschneria)
- Cotinus (fabulous orange fall color in)
- Alstroemeria
- annual tithonia
- carex testaceae
- Citrus!
- Helianthemum nummularium
'Henfield Brilliant' (see native sons website)
Brugmansia, especially the sanguinea 'Inca Princess'
- canna (higher water but effective)
- Tacoma 'Sunrise' see Mountain States Wholesale Nursery website.
This is a knockout in my garden
- Holmskioldia sanguinea (use instead of bougainvillea)
- Manzanita and arbutus for fabulous copper bark
I know others will come to
mind...
Dear All,
I grow a Toyon which I purchased from Cal Flora Nursery in '97 labeled: Heteromeles arbutifolia 'Davis Gold'.
The berries are an orangy-yellow. Perhaps there are other, other than red Toyon varieties?
Tim Kalman
