'JUNE’S GARDEN'
NATURE’S HARMONIOUS COMPOSITIONS
After learning how to plant a flower,
prepare the proper soil for each plant, and
everything else that pertains to gardening,
eventually gardeners become obsessed with
fine-tuning their awareness of harmonizing
planned color combinations in their gardens.
Quoting a garden columnist, Rob
Proctor, whose column appears in Country
Living Garden magazine, "It shouldn't
require a degree in fine arts to choose color
combinations. Forget the color wheel. I
majored in fine arts and never paid attention
to the damn thing (most of my professors
would no doubt concur). Brights go with
brights, pastels go with pastels. Anybody who
can sort and wash clothes properly can
handle color in the garden. Worrying too
much about color combinations can wring joy
out of gardening."
It is satisfying to plan and plant color
harm ony in a garden, but why weed out self
seeding plants? Bright orange California
poppies might appear in an all-pink garden;
orange can enhance the pastel pink, or a
purple pansy that found its way into a pot of
orange begonias. These combinations make
the garden more interesting. Sometimes
nature dictates its own way, giving the
garden unplanned surprises. I was given a
fiat of pansies that were not yet blooming
when they needed planting. Having already
planted all the pots on the deck with planned
color combinations and with little space left
to add more to the garden, I randomly planted
the whole flat in every available space I could
find. That was a summer of surprises, color
combinations I'd never thought of nor had
before. Since then I save seeds from many
different plants to scatter throughout the
garden each spring: columbine, pansies,
poppies, forget-me-nots, fever-few and
lychnis, fuschia-colored flowers that contrast
with the silvery-wooly leaves of the plant, all
self-seed without my help. I'm always
rewarded with a more colorful garden than I
ever could successfully plan.
The B & D lily catalog from Port
Townsend, Washington arrived in February.
This catalog now also includes Snow Creek
daylilies they grow at their home farm. The
farm is located at the foothills of the Olympic
mountain range in Washington State. They
list almost a hundred different cultivated
daylily varieties. Some are scented; colors
range from white, all shades of yellow, peach,
pink, shades of orange to deep burgundy.
Some are two-toned, single-petaled, others
double or deeply ruffled flowers. Many
produce blossoms throughout the summer. A
few are miniature sizes. Most plants grow to
the height of 18' to 25'. Four or more varieties
grow to 34' to 36' tall.
Lilies and daylilies are both easy to
grow in our climate as long as they are
planted in an area that has proper drainage.
Lilies can also be successfully planted in pots.
Each year I can never resist ordering more
lilies. They take very little space, the bulbs
will last for years requiring minimum care
other than using proper fertilizer. B & D also
sells fertilizer that comes in tablet form
which is buried next to the bulbs each spring
and fall.
This nursery has been shipping lily
bulbs for over 20 years. The catalog also
gives information on the care of all plants
and bulbs you order.
To order Snow Creek daylilies and B & D
lilies, the address is:
P.O. Box 2007, Port Townsend, Wa. 98368
Order desk: 360-765-4352 (FAX 360-765-4074)
Web sites: www.snowdaylily.com
www.Lilybulb.com
Delivery starts in April.
The lilies I couln't resist ordering this
year are called Regal Red. The description
indicated 7-10” upfacing blooms of deep
violet-red on 18-24” stems; highly fragrant,
the arom a overwhelming.
I can visualize these lilies blooming in
front of a deep-purple Jackmanii clematis
that climbs a trellis on the wall of my gray-
shingled woodshed. The foreground of this
flower-bed is planted with a variety of
golden, burgundy-red and green-leaved
shrubs and plants. Last year self-seeding
nasturtium s climbed the trellis with the
clematis. The nasturtium s' yellow and orange
blossoms were a bright contrast with the
purple flowers of the clematis.
Ever since years ago I washed a red
sock with my husband's white shirt and he
wore the pink shirt like a banner of war, I've
become pretty good at sorting and washing
clothes properly.
I too majored in fine arts and studied
the elements of color. The joy 1 find in
gardening, however, is to relax and let nature
have its way, neither of us paying much
attention to planned color combinations.
After all, nature invented the color wheel.
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