Comments on: Oopsie daisy http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/oopsie-daisy/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Layanee http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/oopsie-daisy/comment-page-1/#comment-6478 Layanee Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:34:36 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=2625#comment-6478 I am so relieved that you got that color out of the north garden! LOL :) Saw a field of them yesterday and they do make a statement. Left a few by the pool as kids love the black eyed susan but the color, oh that color still makes me cringe. Perhaps because as a child I knew summer was on the wane! <em>Layanee, That would certainly explain the back-to-school name you have for that color! - Makes me cringe too. Summer's not nearly over yet, is it? -kris</em> I am so relieved that you got that color out of the north garden! LOL :) Saw a field of them yesterday and they do make a statement. Left a few by the pool as kids love the black eyed susan but the color, oh that color still makes me cringe. Perhaps because as a child I knew summer was on the wane!

Layanee, That would certainly explain the back-to-school name you have for that color! – Makes me cringe too. Summer’s not nearly over yet, is it? -kris

]]> By: ginny http://blog.blithewold.org/gardens/oopsie-daisy/comment-page-1/#comment-6473 ginny Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:30:19 +0000 http://www.blithewold.org/blog/?p=2625#comment-6473 Oh dear, I do relate to this one. And any honest gardener must be nodding his/her head in agreement. A few weeks ago I cut every single healthy flaming orange hybrid lily because it clashed (made me cringe) with a vivid red lily that I had planted as its neighbor. What was I thinking? Well, I was seduced by the photos in bulb catalogues that don't tell the truth. (I love to put the blame on others). Could I temper the whole thing with blue? Naaahhhhh. I made a flamboyant "arrangement" of the offenders so that my guilt would be lessened. In the fall I will dig 'em up and relocate (where o' where?). Now I'm thinking that perhaps the red lily is the culprit. O no, does anyone else have this problem? By the way, would you dear Kris, want to expound in the future, on catalogue photography and verbiage? Who dreams up those fairy tales? <em>Ginny, That's too funny. I felt the same way about some of our tulip clashes this year and Gail had to stop me from beheading them... Don't get me started on catalog descriptions! -kris</em> Oh dear, I do relate to this one. And any honest gardener must be nodding his/her head in agreement.

A few weeks ago I cut every single healthy flaming orange hybrid lily because it clashed (made me cringe) with a vivid red lily that I had planted as its neighbor. What was I thinking? Well, I was seduced by the photos in bulb catalogues that don’t tell the truth. (I love to put the blame on others). Could I temper the whole thing with blue? Naaahhhhh. I made a flamboyant “arrangement” of the offenders so that my guilt would be lessened. In the fall I will dig ‘em up and relocate (where o’ where?).

Now I’m thinking that perhaps the red lily is the culprit. O no, does anyone else have this problem?

By the way, would you dear Kris, want to expound in the future, on catalogue photography and verbiage? Who dreams up those fairy tales?

Ginny, That’s too funny. I felt the same way about some of our tulip clashes this year and Gail had to stop me from beheading them… Don’t get me started on catalog descriptions! -kris

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