Just a view in my garden

Very nice PeterS, you manage to make quite a few flowers varieties to come up at the same time.

 

Thanks Angelina for those comments. I think most of the combinations have turned out to be just luck. However I would stand by two of the comments I made earlier.

I believe that if you limit your palette, rather than having every colour, you give flower combinations a helping hand.

And I still have a thing about long flowering plants. It seems only sensible that if you have plants that flower for twice as long - you must have twice as much colour in the garden.

 

I somehow seemed to have missed this thread; excellent stuff Peter, makes all that digging, lifting, splitting and re-planting worthwhile when you see the end results, roll on spring when things start growing again

 

I absolutely agree, and the pictures show what a fantastic eye for colour you have.

 

So true!

Limiting my palette will be a challenge as I am keen to have collections of certain plants: rhododendrons, roses, hydrangeas and hemerocallis.
Also, I love red roses.
With roses I've messed it completely... :D
I have one small area which proved good for rose cuttings (after I tested the whole place) and this season I am expecting most of the cuttings, which took roots last year, to bloom. They will not match in colour at all, but I will be happy about each of them. I'll regroup and transplant them later.
To match all the roses that don't belong together, I could think of colour 'transitions'. This season I can use annuals to try that, but I'm also thinking of perennials with interesting (coloured) foliage, and no other flowers in the group but the rose.
For more precise blooming periods, I'll have to make an inventory of my pictures and check the dates.
And I also have to consider bright sunlight and shade, as colour perceptions vary a lot with different lighting conditions.
Height is also a problem. Pictures of individual plants in trader catalogues are often misleading of 'scale'.


I have a small assignment to complete now, but after I'm done, I'll open a new thread, present some of the ideas I could think of, and ask for advice.

Peter, I've copied all your pictures from this thread, and also your amazing five-year observations of 'long flowerers'. With only a second season behind my back, your resource of first-hand experience is something I really value!

 

I've been trying to think of a subtle excuse to bump this thread, but I can't, so I'll boldly admit that I'm bumping it just because its one of my favourite threads of all time.

 

Stunning, just stunning!

The euphorbia is only 3 years old and it's THAT big already!?? It's a fave plant of mine, as is all euphorbias.