still blooming despite the cold, color, ivy
- Subject: still blooming despite the cold, color, ivy
- From: Linda Wallpe l*@juno.com
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 01:00:07 -0500
Hello Everyone!
We've had two nights well below freezing and I was certain all would be
brown and dreary to match the grey skies. Not so. The dogwoods are full
of red leaves and the redbuds are lime, a few small wild asters are
hanging on. There is a pass-a-long plant, a yellow Korean chrysanthemum,
full of buds and it hasn't wilted a bit. It should burst into bloom in
a few days. In the thug bed, the gooseneck loosestrife leaves are rosy.
Marge Tait wrote:
<I woke up to the fact that yellow foliage in the shade is really
neat, like a shaft of sun in the dark, especially when juxtaposed with
purple foliage; the yellow makes the purple come alive. I used to try
purple with silver and it never really worked and still can't figure out
why because it ought to >
It's been a lot of years since I studied this but it has to do with the
color wheel. Here's a good link that talks about color theory:
http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-theory-basics.html
Orange with purple (and green foliage) is an example of the triadic color
scheme, three colors equally spaced around the color wheel.
If one thinks of silver as a blue tone and uses it with purple, this is
an example of the analogous color scheme, colors adjacent to each other
on the color wheel. It lacks color contrast and probably the reason that
it doesn't satisfy.
I've never planted one piece of ivy but fight it continuously. One of my
neighbors thinks it's the answer to a low-maintenance garden. It makes
giant leaps around the neighborhood, climbs trees. It's winning. No,
it won.
Linda Wallpe
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