Pacific Northwest Gardening: Garden Pics: 'How Does Your Garden Grow?' ...#8, 1 by Rarejem

Rarejem wrote:
Pony, Nice lupine! Yeah, that storm was something! Looks like you will have good weather for your trip...hope you have fun!

Tills, great iris and poppy! Especially love Pass the Wine. Six blooming out of 30 new is stunning! I am still waiting for some that I planted several years ago to show their faces!

Willow, yours is lovely too. Isn't it frustrating to lose them? I have resigned myself to the fact that my wet/sluggy combo is just not the right home for some iris.

Bea, I really like your out of control Valentine rose too! I also really like your Nast./Lavender combo...stunning! And of course the ultra awesome frog pic!

RC, Your layering supplies have made it much further than mine...hopefully they stay in motion! Will be curious to see how you do! I DO have plans for my Toona tree...just need to let it get a wee bit bigger :P (BTW, it has taken to it's home very nicely and looks very happy there!) I really like your combos, especially the pic of the salvia with the maple in the background. Another purplish/orangish combo! I am with Kathy...I think that it is a stunning combo in the garden IF the two shades work with each other. I don't think that it is necessarily the intensity as much as the shading of the two colors that either "work" or "don't work". My Mom has a purple rhodie/orange exbury combo that are both intense in color and I just cringe when I see it. Same with my lavender azalea/orange exbury combo that are both light in color....just not right. This was an unintentional but wonderful combo with intense purple and light orange that I just love. Wasn't able to get a better pic last year, but hope to this year. Forbidden Desires (purple) with Latin Rythm (orange).