Re: Orange flowers

Orange is not one of my favorite colors either, but I have a group of
Pardancandas that range from strong to very soft orange.  (Pardancandas are
always shown in a range from orange through red to blue, but whenever I have
ordered them, I only receive the orange shades.  This spring I ordered P.
'Sangria', a blue, but haven't seen it yet.)  I think because the individual
flowers are so small, they seem to go with a wide range of other colors, and
right now look smashing with Agastache 'Blue Fortune', A. cana, some
seedling Gauras in white and pink and Penstemon 'Elfin Pink'.
Merri Morgan
WV Zone 5b
----- Original Message -----
From: "Saxton, Susan" <SSaxton@schwabe.com>
To: <perennials@hort.net>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:58 AM
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
>
>
> 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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