RE: Orange flowers

Hi Claire and all orange lovers (likers) out there!
	Your note made me laugh out loud as I have come to appreciate orange (in
all its various shades) more over time.  I am reminded of the year I ordered
Apricot Beauty tulips from a local grower.  But in the spring what bloomed
was huge parrot tulips in outrageous  bright orange with green and sulfur
yellow flames all over the petals.  At first I was outraged.....then the hot
orange Erysimum bloomed in the flowerbed directly across from the
tulips.....then I began to look at the tulips with a different eye.  In the
end it became one of my favorite spring combinations.
	Orange & gold have been written about as hot "new" colors for the garden
and I can see the effects of that promotion in nursery sales.  For
instance - I've had a run on the tall coral/orange Phygelius 'African Queen'
and 'Winchester Fanfare', tall bright gold/orange Heleniums, Abutilon 'Louis
Sasson' (orange with dark wine markings) and the many orange-red Crocosmias.
	I plant many large containers for my deck and garden every year and my
personal favorite has been the "orange pot" containing all orange blooming
perennials and annuals.  It has been a good color to brighten up the shade.
I think I need to try a truly orange daylily too.

Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Saxton, Susan
Sent:	Thursday, August 08, 2002 8:59 AM
To:	perennials@hort.net
Subject:	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


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.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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