RE: Orange flowers

Cheryl,  I'll be happy to share with you when it is bigger than one fan :)
Marilyn Dube'
Natural Designs Nursery
Portland, Oregon


-----Original Message-----
From:	owner-perennials@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf
Of Cheryl Isaak
Sent:	Friday, August 09, 2002 5:03 AM
To:	perennials@hort.net
Subject:	RE: Orange flowers

Hey Susan,
I'll take a piece to and send another nice hot one to Marilyn from my
garden.
Cheryl
>I have a truly orange daylily for you Marilyn -- a double with red
>streaks too in it too -- free to your good home.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marilyn Dube [m*@easystreet.com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 12:01 PM
>To: perennials@hort.net
>Subject: 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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Cheryl Isaak
Londonderry, NH
AHS Region 4, USDA Zone 4B/5A
growing, stitching and reading in NH

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