Specialty Gardening: Color 'waves' - has anyone else noticed this?, 1 by LeawoodGardener

LeawoodGardener wrote:
I would love to know if my casual observation is shared by other gardeners, of if it's just a product of my own likes.

Several years ago I went out to my garden one morning and it seemed like everything in bloom was yellow. They were all flowers that SHOULD be yellow, but it seem very coincidental that they would all be blooming on the same day (and for a few subsequent days). I noticed the same thing another time, only it seemed like everything was blue.

Yesterday, after days of rain, I walked out in my garden and I was struck by the fact that everything seemed to be purple. The allium are all purple (even though I have planted white and yellow, which don't seem to be blooming yet) and all of the iris in bloom are purple, or purple with white.