Re: More Crayola Red Perennials

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Janis --

 

LOL!  However, were it my dream garden there would be no yellow section but merely a few clumps of yellow here and there throughout the other sections, AND there would definitely have to be a purple section between the red and the blue.  :-)

 

Dean Sliger

Warren, Michigan, USA

Zone 6B

 

 

On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:03:40 EDT LONDE@aol.com writes:
> Shortly after this list's discussion of using Crayola colors to
> describe
> plants, I wandered into the children's garden at Missouri Botanical
> Garden. 
> There is was -- Dean's dream garden!  A walkway separated three
> circular
> monochromatic gardens, one in each of the primary colors -- true
> red, true
> yellow and true blue.  Sticking up from the center of each section,
> I kid you
> not, was a 4-foot-tall model of a crayon in the primary shade that
> exactly
> matched the flowers.  I blinked.  Could this be a coincidence, or
> was someone
> at the Botanical Garden lurking on this list?
>
> Unfortunately, all of the flowers were annuals so I can't send you a
> list of
> true red, yellow and blue perennials.  And it wasn't exactly Dean's
> dream
> garden since the yellow section dominated, as yellow is wont to do. 
> Still, I
> laughed out loud at the sight of it.  What serendipity!  --Janis
>
>
>   
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