Monday, 8 July 2013

Bold colour in the garden. Orange.

Orange is a great colour for the garden. It's bold and bright and beautiful. Encouraged by Christopher Lloyd's wonderful book Colour for Adventurous Gardeners, I use it a lot in planting my small garden.
I am really enjoying the orange flowers today, as I sit outside, writing copy for a  local business's new website. 
It's amazing where the skills  learned in writing poetry come in useful - brutal self editing, striving to find exactly the right words - oh, and search engine optimisation as well of course!
Here are million bells
Wonderful snapdragons
achillea
a rather lovely pale rose, with a very decorative snail sitting on a petal
a tangle of roses and million bells
and the first nasturtium of summer.

4 comments:

  1. And especially delicious with your blue woodwork!

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  2. Thank you - blue is a most excellent colour to provide a backdrop for plants!

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  3. We have nasturtiums - they have the huge benefit here of not minding being left to their own devices - I love them.

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    1. They also taste delicious, rather peppery.

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