Re: Heat Loving Plants with Orange Berries, Leaves And Flowers?
- Subject: Re: Heat Loving Plants with Orange Berries, Leaves And Flowers?
- From: C* R* <c*@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 17:19:19 -0700
How about California poppies? Cathy
> From: "Linda Starr" <mtnstar@ocsnet.net>
> Reply-To: mtnstar@ocsnet.net
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:50:49 -0800
> To: <medit-plants@ucdavis.edu>
> Subject: 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
