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- From: karenp@sybase.com (Karen Paulsell)
- Newsgroups: rec.gardens
- Subject: Re: Color Combinations and Plants
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 23:51:55 GMT
- References: <1993Jan16.171638.12396@news.uiowa.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan16.171638.12396@news.uiowa.edu> yeutter@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Marguerite Yeutter) writes:
- >I am going for a white and pastel pink, soft yellow, and light
- >blue color scheme this year.
-
- Here in North Oakland, alyssum self seeds like crazy, so it must
- be easy. And I'm about to declare the 'Persian Jewels' Nigellas
- a weed, too! How did they get into the cactus garden, eh?
-
-
- I thought 'feverfew' was Chrysanthemum parthenium??? It also pops
- up everywhere!
-
- I've found ageratums easy to start from seed, never tried your
- choice species though.
-
- >
- >What color combinations do you guys like in your yards and
- >what plants do you use? Do you take into account things
- >like the "background color" of your house or whatever, or
- >do you just plant what you like cuz you like it?
-
- Let's see: a purple-white-yellow bed; an orange-yellow-coral bed,
- and one mostly pink. I just put several red plants together
- against a white shed, I hope it looks striking. And I do have one
- small patch of purple + red (softened by some alyssum, but then
- isn't everything around here?) Then, there's the all-mixed up beds!
- Gertrude Jekyll might not plant red Cannas next to Coreopsis, but
- they do cheer up a foggy August gloom.
-
- Since a lot of the plants are perennials rather than annuals, I
- don't get switch color schemes yearly.
-
- I know of one house, white with purple and blue trim, the front
- yard full of purple + blue blooms. Pretty classy act.
-
- >And do a lot of you grow from seed, or cruise the nurseries
- >and KMart trusting them to have what you want?
-
- I cruise, and buy on impulse! Then, later, I see the seeds in
- a catalog, and it says "easy to grow from seed" and I wish I
- weren't so impulsive! I did start a lot of things from seed, though,
- when I first bought my house, I had to control my impulses much
- more sharply then!
-
- >Just wondering about what other gardeners do....
- >
- >Marguerite Yeutter
- >yeutter@cs.uiowa.edu
-