Re: spring and the robins/hot color orange

Hi!

    I am - or have been, til now - mostly a lurker - but now feel that it's
time to get involved.  I live on 4 acres in central New York, and started
perennials when I moved in here last year, after being in Ontario and Northern
New York.

    On orange... Seeds of Change has a perennial "Firewheel" that is
predominantly orange, many chrysanthemums are shades of orange.  They also
have a "Cornfield Poppy", a reseeding annual, which I think most poppies are -
at least in my experience.  Depending on where you are and how serious you are
about orange perennials -- I think I'll stick with orange annuals, personally,
you can find orange freesia, glads, strawflowers, rananculus, daisies, tiger-
and day-lilies, roses (I have one that's nearly flourescent orange - the kids
love it!), azaleas, dahlia, potentilla, irises...

    Many of these, I've seen and grown - others are only pics in catalogs.
Henry Field's has a good selection; I've used them in the past, as does
Burpee.

    Have fun
    Cath

Darrell & Evonne Benedict wrote:

> orange as the hot color is the cover article in this months horticulture
> magazine.. by the way the mag has a new web site, and I believe you can
> read the article on line! Yipee!
> http://www.hortmag.com
>
> Evonne
>
> (zone 8/pacnw)
>
> >Rita,
> >
> >Rumor has it that the "hot" color for this season is orange!  What do you
> >think, willing to give it a whirl?  I think I might do a hot color border
> >just for fun.
> >
> >Ginny
> >
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