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- From: jareed@rodan.acs.syr.EDU (Judith Ann Reed)
- Subject: Re: Color Combinations and P
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.094055.1059@newstand.syr.edu>
- Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 93 09:40:55 EST
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- I agree with the poster from michigan who said what a wonderful thing this
- is to think about right now - the snow is flying past our windows, 3-6"
- expected today here in Central N.Y.!! I have sent for seed catalogs from new
- and/or interesting seedsmen, and am having them sent to my work, so that I'll
- get nice surprises at mid-day to pore over during lunch!
-
- >>What color combinations do you guys like in your yards
-
- Our house is gray, so I'm going with pinks, blues and lavenders next to it
- in an enclosed annual bed. Out front is an herb garden, lots of blues,
- yellow, white, pink, grayish green foliage. My main flower bed is next
- to the house next door, though, which is brown and yellow, so I'm trying
- to make it bright - blues, reds, purples, oranges. I started with a "Texas
- Scarlet flowering Quince" as a centerpiece, crimson flowers mid summer and
- orangey quinces later. Last year, added cornflowers, which hopefully will
- reseed, nice rich blue. The Four-o-clocks reseed reliably, in yellow and
- fuschia, a bit jarring but fun, and the liatris shoots up purple spikes.
- This year I want to add butterfly plant, for that wonderful orange, and
- Bergamot for the red. Also, lots of bright tulips and hyacinths in the spring,
- and pansies in various colors all summer. I'm finding it's hard to find
- perennials in primary colors, though - so many tend to the pastel range.
- Anyone have any favorite perennial flowers or very low growing shrubs
- in primary colors? Also, can't forget the potentilla in yellow and orange!
-
- >>And do a lot of you grow from seed, or cruise the nurseries
- >>and KMart trusting them to have what you want?
- >
- Poring over the seed and nursery catalogs is so much more fun, lingering,
- drawing up lists, changing your mind, redrawing the lists, finally sending
- them out, waiting anxiously for the mail, opening it like presents when it
- gets here, nurturing those stubborn (sometimes) little seedlings and young
- bare-root plants - it makes it all so much more interesting than just goint
- and buying beautiful established plants - far too easy for us grizzled
- northerners!!!!!
-
- Judith Reed
- jareed@mailbox.syr.edu
-