Orange flowers
- Subject: Orange flowers
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 11:27:02 EDT
In a message dated 8/8/02 5:38:26 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Meum71@aol.com
writes:
<<
We all have are likes and dislikes, orange works for me but most double
flowers are not appealing to me, Those double flowering petunias make me
cringe. >>
Orange is usually passed by in the US by most gardeners. Deep egg yolk
yellows are also not popular. I recall reading a magazine article on how to
train yourself to like these colors. Have you noticed how often yellow is
described as "primrose", orange a "soft tangerine".
I think they steal the show in a mixture so are perhaps thought not elegant.
Men seem to genuinely like orange better than women, many woman would not buy
orange colored clothing, most not I think. Most men have different ideas on
color, look at the lot on a golf course.
Yet, if you travel outside the US, gardens are filled with yellows and
oranges. An very deep orange wall flower covers England in the early spring.
The Dutch produce (and don't sell many here), brilliant orange and orange
blended tulips.
Apart from personal taste we got the idea here that a proper garden was
mostly pink and blue and should stand next to an old wall and that Laura
Ashley dresses would be walking around. In the south, gardeners have always
been more assertive and planted all kinds of things that don't fit this
picture and the rest of us are just now catching up.
There are a few books around on "hot color" gardens and poor old orange gets
thrown into that group. If you design and plant a hot garden, you are fine
as you will be doing it intentionally.
When a child, my mother planted marigolds, the large orange and yellow ones.
She planted mostly annuals and a lot zinnias were in there, too.
she had no time for more planning. I joined a garden club when I finally had
some time only to learn they were in bad taste and never appeared in
arrangements. It has taken me a long time to sort this out. I never make
arrangements. I said this once on the iris line and got fifty replies as to
my lack of ability in the garden world. We have a veg frame this year about
4 x 16, all, totally all, filled with zinnias of every kind. We bought every
package found, mixed them all together and planted the entire frame. It is
just now blooming and looks like one of my mother's gardens. I cut them and
take them to the nursing home where my mother now lives and the residents
there are not picky about the colors.
There is some question as to how the nasturtium has survived.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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