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"emma" wrote in message ... Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round colour border- colour must be yellow and purple. Does anyone have any ideas. The garden design is for commercial use, and borders are raised ideal for wheel chair height. All borders are 3- 4 metres in length and upto 1.5 metres wide. Do you have any ideas for an eye catching focal beds which need to be stunning and in keeping with the borders. Thanks for any help! Much appreciated. Please feel free to email me -- emma Erysimum 'Bowles Mauve' Various Hebes Heather, I think you can get purple leaved Berberis Acacia Baileyana Purpurea ( not if you're in a cold area ) Winter Jasmine Vinca Daffs Crocuses Fabiana Imbricata Violaceae Choisya Ternata 'Sundance' Hedera Helix 'Buttercup' ( Ivy) Hypericum 'Hidcote' Potentilla ( yellow) Purple Sprouting Broccoli Rudbeckia Michaelmas Daisies Lupins That shrub that has purple berries on in autumn, starts with a 'c' I think etc etc etc Andy |
Yellow and purple border ideas
Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round colour border- colour must be yellow and purple.
Does anyone have any ideas. The garden design is for commercial use, and borders are raised ideal for wheel chair height. All borders are 3- 4 metres in length and upto 1.5 metres wide. Do you have any ideas for an eye catching focal beds which need to be stunning and in keeping with the borders. Thanks for any help! Much appreciated. Please feel free to email me |
"emma" wrote in message ... Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round colour border- colour must be yellow and purple. Does anyone have any ideas. The garden design is for commercial use, and borders are raised ideal for wheel chair height. All borders are 3- 4 metres in length and upto 1.5 metres wide. Do you have any ideas for an eye catching focal beds which need to be stunning and in keeping with the borders. Thanks for any help! Much appreciated. Please feel free to email me how about ornamental cabbage for the autumn and winter e.g. http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/acat...ml&CatalogBody |
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Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round colour border- colour must be yellow and purple. Does anyone have any ideas. The garden design is for commercial use, and borders are raised ideal for wheel chair height. All borders are 3- 4 metres in length and upto 1.5 metres wide. Do you have any ideas for an eye catching focal beds which need to be stunning and in keeping with the borders. Thanks for any help! Much appreciated. Please feel free to email me Take a pot of yellow paint, and a pot of purple paint.... -- If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you. |
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... Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round colour border- colour must be yellow and purple. Does anyone have any ideas. The garden design is for commercial use, and borders are raised ideal for wheel chair height. All borders are 3- 4 metres in length and upto 1.5 metres wide. Do you have any ideas for an eye catching focal beds which need to be stunning and in keeping with the borders. Thanks for any help! Much appreciated. Please feel free to email me -- emma yellow and purple? yeuch. My first idea would be to convince the company in question that a border in their corporate colours is not the way to go. I should think anything in those colours would be 'eye-catching'. Perhaps a better requirement would be 'pleasing to the eye'. I think you'll find those colours difficult because they're opposites. They are strong contrast of the pure colours will work OK but natural colours tend to be a bit more variable so orangey-yellow or a greenish-yellow will clash horribly with purple, and a reddish-purple or bluish-purple will clash horribly with the yellow I think what you are saying though is that the hard landscaping is yellow and purple and the plants can be anything? It might help if we knew what it was to be used for - ie. is there any significance to the fact it's wheelchair accessible - will the maintenance be done by wheelchair users or is it just raised so they can see it better? One possibility which might work would be to have quite muted colours in the planting - dark green/bronze foliage plants - but go for lots of texture as you've already got too much colour to compete with. To make the planting 'blend' with the gariish beds, you could put some of the plants in yellow or purple pots inside the bed. Phormiums are good spiky structural plants. You could probably also get away with white flowers/berries as white goes with anything. Martin & Anna Sykes ( Remove x's when replying ) http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~sykesm |
On 10/11/04 15:26, in article ,
"suspicious minds" wrote: "emma" wrote in message ... Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round colour border- colour must be yellow and purple. Does anyone have any ideas. The garden design is for commercial use, and borders are raised ideal for wheel chair height. All borders are 3- 4 metres in length and upto 1.5 metres wide. Do you have any ideas for an eye catching focal beds which need to be stunning and in keeping with the borders. Thanks for any help! Much appreciated. Please feel free to email me how about ornamental cabbage for the autumn and winter e.g. http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/acat...hergills.co.uk /acatalog/cabbage_ornament_seed.html&CatalogBody Don't know why but I haven't seen the original of this. But Amicia zygomeris is yellow and purple and unusual, rare even. But it's not totally hardy. Where is the OP working? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 14:38:26 +0000, emma
wrote: Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round colour border- colour must be yellow and purple. You could try to find ways of getting crocus to flower all year! Pam in Bristol |
That shrub that has purple berries on in autumn, starts with a 'c' I think
Callicarpa also known as Beauty Berry. http://www.bellevuebotanical.org/pla...h/P0000665.jpg Ham House had a fantastic display of Salvia horminum in their kitchen garden this summer. http://www.mr-fothergills.co.uk/acatalog/1489-clr.jpg I hope I can find a reason and place to grow it for myself. Hope thats of some help. |
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I think yellow and purple is a great challenge and bearing in mind much of the colour could come from the green foliage it doesn't need to be garish at all. I would consider herbs (lavender (french) , tansy and purple sage come to mind), aliums, roses, jonquills, crocus tommasinianus, iris reticulata. These plants would provide wonderful textures and scent. I would look at a book on companion gardening and a rose catalogue for lots of ideas. And I shouldn't forget the long flowering violas - none of those ubiquitous pansies! And nasturtians to hang down - endless varieties . And Vegetables - but thats another thought.... I have a plum tree I must go and plant out today! jay jay |
emma wrote in message ... Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round colour border- colour must be yellow and purple. Does anyone have any ideas. The garden design is for commercial use, and borders are raised ideal for wheel chair height. All borders are 3- 4 metres in length and upto 1.5 metres wide. Do you have any ideas for an eye catching focal beds which need to be stunning and in keeping with the borders. Thanks for any help! Much appreciated. Please feel free to email me -- emma Hi Emma, It would be a good idea to use foliage plants in purples and yellows (as well as green) to relieve dangerous clashes. Some examples a Purples: Berberis, phormiums, heucheras, purple-leaved ajugas, ophiopagan planiscapus nigrescens, Yellows: Choisya ternata 'Sundance', hedera 'Buttercup' (ivy), lysimachia nummularia 'aurea (has yellow flowers), Yellow-flowering plants: Helenium, rudbeckia, coreopsis, doronicum, eranthis, some lupins, some aquilegias, thalictrum flavum, some kniphophias, some euphorbias, hypericum, many roses, hamamelis mollis, clematis tangutica, meconopsis cambrica, allium moly and flavum, some lilies, some crocus, some irises, alchemilla mollis. Purple-flowering plants: Asters (in variety), liatris, erigerons, some delphiniums, some thalictrums, some aquilegias, some alliums, some crocus, tricyrtis (just about!), vinca, digitalis, linaria purpurea, some campanulas, many clematis, some roses (very few), hebes, irises. Hope this helps. Spider |
On 12/11/04 6:07 pm, in article ,
"Spider" wrote: emma wrote in message ... Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round colour border- colour must be yellow and purple. Does anyone have any ideas. The garden design is for commercial use, and borders are raised ideal for wheel chair height. All borders are 3- 4 metres in length and upto 1.5 metres wide. Do you have any ideas for an eye catching focal beds which need to be stunning and in keeping with the borders. Thanks for any help! Much appreciated. Please feel free to email me -- emma Hi Emma, It would be a good idea to use foliage plants in purples and yellows (as well as green) to relieve dangerous clashes. Some examples a snip of very useful information But again - where is this project to be sited? It makes a big difference to what is suggested. For yellow flowering I'd suggest Euryops but what frost danger is there in the finished site? We've had it down to -5 here in pots but I've lost it in a 'hard' winter in Jersey! It's no good offering lots of ideas if we don't know where the ideas are going to end up! Emma, let us know where you're working and we can all pitch in probably rather more helpfully. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon (remove the weeds to email me) |
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On 12/11/04 6:07 pm, in article , "Spider" wrote: emma wrote in message ... Hi I am a student doing a project which needs a all year round colour border- colour must be yellow and purple. Does anyone have any ideas. The garden design is for commercial use, and borders are raised ideal for wheel chair height. All borders are 3- 4 metres in length and upto 1.5 metres wide. Do you have any ideas for an eye catching focal beds which need to be stunning and in keeping with the borders. Thanks for any help! Much appreciated. Please feel free to email me -- emma Hi Emma, It would be a good idea to use foliage plants in purples and yellows (as well as green) to relieve dangerous clashes. Some examples a snip of very useful information But again - where is this project to be sited? It makes a big difference to what is suggested. For yellow flowering I'd suggest Euryops but what frost danger is there in the finished site? We've had it down to -5 here in pots but I've lost it in a 'hard' winter in Jersey! It's no good offering lots of ideas if we don't know where the ideas are going to end up! Emma, let us know where you're working and we can all pitch in probably rather more helpfully. For a short period ordinary cowslips and aubrieta look stunning together; but you'll need other things for later, of course. Mike. |
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