Just looking back through my Spring and Summer garden pictures made me feel warm and brightened my day. I think lots of us like to look back at sunny day pictures, part of the fun for me is remembering flowers I'd forgotten about and made me more anxious to see them return.
The interesting part of putting this rainbow together for me is that I thought I'd have trouble finding orange flowers, and have no problem with purple flowers. It ended up being the opposite. I used to think orange clashed too much with most colors. But once while shopping in a nursery I overheard some women and one discussing how certain colors of flowers "didn't go together". The other woman said that they are all part of nature so of course they all go together. While I don't personally think every color combination goes together it did open my eyes a bit about being less critical of orange and combining it with colors I never thought it "matched".
Here is my rainbow:
Monarda 'Jacobe Cline'
Red Breadseed Poppy
Geum 'Fire Lake'
Zinnia 'Apricot Blush'
Leopard's Bane
Sunflower
Hosta
Zinnia 'Green Envy'
Hydrangea 'Nikko Blue'
Salvia 'Black and Blue'
Muscari
Clematis 'Jackmanii superba'Here is Cyndi Lauper singing "True Colors" in the video below:
