Truly red plants

True scarlet/red plants that I have are:

'Beauty of Livermore' oriental poppy
'Paprika' yarrow (does have a yellow eye, but
really is red)
I think one of the lychnis are also really red, is
it lychnis calcedonia?

Also, (sacriledge here for a perennial list) some
dahlias, petunias and roses are truly red as well.



>>> jeanne latta <jplatta@yahoo.com>
07/22/98 07:48am >>>
Hi Dee Ann,
   I was surprised that no one mentioned them
earlier  also.  I have
three clumps of them and they really bloomed
profusely this summer but
they really did a flop number. I'm going to do
some pruning a la "the
well Tended Perennial Garden" next year and
see if I can do something
to control that.  In the meantime, my marching
soldier plants are
supporting them nicely.
   They are listed as blue, but I am finding that
I must be
colored-blind because what the books call blue,
in my opinion, are
more purple. This led to my nightmare of the
purple and orange garden
combination that I have. All the varieties of
campanula that I have
are purple and I think the stokesia and even
the scabiosa are closer
to purple than blue.
   Off the subject, it seems to me that as you
look through garden
books you find that there are more purple, pink,
golden yellow and
orange than anything else.  I'm having a tough
time finding a good,
bright red.
Jeanne    




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Jeanne
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