In an earlier post I mentioned that orange is my favourite colour. I love colour—the brighter the better, and for me, orange is the best of all. It’s sunshine and happiness in a colour. It’s hard to be grumpy when there’s orange around.
Orange in my garden (and a couple of others):
Meconopsis cambrica (orange Welsh poppy) in our garden. It’s a lot more orangey and less yellowy in real life than this photo suggests – a sort of pale tangerine colour.
Lathyrus aureus, a low-growing perennial member of the pea family. This one’s my special baby – I grew it from seed.
Buddleja globosa in our garden. This flowers earlier than the common buddleja (B. davidii) and it’s so unusual: lovely globby, bobbly flowers.
And they just had to go in an orange jug!
Clivia miniata. I put these out for the summer but they have to come inside for the winter before the first frosts. They need to be in a shady spot as the sun can burn their leaves badly. The seed pods are so pretty too, and clivias are easy to grow from seed.
Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora ‘Star of the East’ with a few orange Tropaeolum majus (nasturtiums) in a garden I designed in Berkshire.
Erysimum (wallflowers) and lily-flowered tulips (possibly Tulipa ‘Ballerina’) at Lytes Cary in Somerset, a wonderful National Trust property.
And recently I realised I’d been buying an awful lot of orange and reddy-orange things for my shop on Etsy:
Baltic amber and 800 silver ring by Wilhelm Becker of Pforzheim, Germany. (NOW SOLD).
Baltic amber and sterling silver ring, by Niels Erik From of Denmark. (NOW SOLD).
Art Nouveau style Baltic amber and silver ring. (NOW SOLD).
Art Deco carnelian and silver lavalier necklace. (NOW SOLD).
Vintage carnelian agate big bead necklace. (NOW SOLD).
Vintage Art Deco carnelian glass lavalier necklace. (NOW SOLD).
Art Deco glass necklace, probably Czech glass. (NOW SOLD).
Victorian banded agate brooch. (NOW SOLD).
Vintage faux amber and 830 silver flower brooch, possibly Danish. (NOW SOLD).
So then I had to go on a blues and greens and purples and pinks buying spree—such hardship!
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