Garden Blues

Not the mental kind, the color kind. My son brought it to my attention today that everything I have blooming is a shade of blue. Does anyone else notice that there's tons of blue flowering plants? He asked me if I planted anything that wasn't blue, and I think I did, but not sure. LOL! I guess we'll have to wait and see what blooms next. I hope my gardens aren't going to be all blue.

I took a look at my flowerbeds and realized that everything blooming was mostly some shade of yellow. Don't know how that happened. lol But I think a lot of those will be bloomed out soon and I will have a bigger variety of colors.

I planted everthing blue and white in my new backyard. My Jacobs Ladder just bloomed today. I LOVE blue!!!

I was afraid everything was going to be pink. I didn't realize how much pink I bought till a couple of friends pointed it out. I have lots of different colors though, not just pink.

Am I blue? You bet. There's LOTS of blue in my new sunny perennial bed. More blue than I expected, and more spiky shapes (like salvia and catmint). I'm waiting for hollyhocks to pop out with some other colors in the back of the bed.

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Since campanula do well here, and our local wild geranium is blue, and our wild iris are blue, we have lots of blue in the garden. I think certain colors are predominant in certain species, so it's inevitable that we have more of that color than others, but it all seems to work out.

My gardens seem to go from blues, purples, and pinks in the early season .... to yellow, gold, and orange later in the season. I never planned it that way but that's how it worked out. It sorta goes through a seasonal change.

I've noticed I tend to have lots of pinks and lavenders, particularly close together. Didn't plan it that way. I love a mixture of all colors.

Seems that I tend to plant lots of blues right by yellow, which I just love together.

Yes, Roz, the blues and yellows are striking. I mix those two colors in annuals, such as a bed of touch of red calendula and dwarf blue bachelor buttons. Quite striking!

In all the perennial books, they have a section on placement that gives you ideas for varying textures and colors, as well as staggering the blooming times. I read all that, but I never seem to put it into practice. I get a plant, I hunt for a spot, I plant it.

Sometimes, it's a real mistake, but most times, it seems mother nature just makes do with what we lay in her lap. Tall plants lay down, short ones rise, crowded plants mingle. It's usually beautiful in spite of my lack of effort.

I went out and looked to see which colour predominates the garden. Green seems to win it everytime ;) but there is such a mix of flower colours out there that it's an all sorts of everything. I'm no good with colour co-ordination, you only have to look at my wardrobe to know that ;)

I wish i had lots of blues...I have tons of yellow...

I don't plant flowers because we have more than 50 wildings growing here, and there's no reason to compete with God.

However, I notice that color's come in waves. That is, at any particular point in time, blues, or yellows, or whites, or pinks will predominate, even though different species are involved.

I wonder if that's what's happening in your gardens; that the particular color phase appears more or less all at once?