RE: Orange flowers

While orange is not my favorite color, it does have its place with blues, whites and yellows.  I do like the orange cosmos.  I think for me, it depends on the saturation of the color, what it is paired with but also if it is an yellow-orange or a red-orange.  The little things.

-----Original Message-----
From: ECPep@aol.com [E*@aol.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 8:27 AM
To: perennials@hort.net
Subject: Orange flowers


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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