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Gardening => Gardeners Chat => Topic started by: barleychown on Jan 06, 2010, 12:51:15 PM

Title: Color ideas needed
Post by: barleychown on Jan 06, 2010, 12:51:15 PM

These roses make up the hedge along our front sidewalk:  http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS312US313&q=knock+out+rose (http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS312US313&q=knock+out+rose)

Right now they are freakishly bright compared to the house and pastel flowers around them....but I will eventually be painting the house a mocha color, and I will be redoiing the front garden this year.

I need ideas for colors/plants to go with these roses, and not clash.  :dunno:

I like the orange toned coneflowers they have come out with in the last year or so....

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Penny on Jan 06, 2010, 01:20:18 PM

Hmmm, i think some nice deep blue flowers would look nice Sarah, such as some columbines's and some corn flowers.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: barleychown on Jan 06, 2010, 01:23:51 PM

I hadn't thought of blue! I like that idea... :ThumbUp:

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Penny on Jan 06, 2010, 01:25:20 PM

And some white thrown in would be a nice contrast to the pink and the blue.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: barleychown on Jan 06, 2010, 01:31:21 PM

There are shasta daisies in that bed...and  Idon't think a nuclear bomb would get rid of them.  :laughmao:

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Jessica on Jan 06, 2010, 02:17:20 PM

I like the orange color that you are thinking of....or a coral color.  How about yellow?  Yellow always looks good with pink.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: barleychown on Jan 06, 2010, 03:28:09 PM

Maybe mixing in some yellow sunflowers would help...

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Dianna on Jan 06, 2010, 04:08:54 PM

What about purple flowers? :grinnnn:

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: barleychown on Jan 06, 2010, 05:03:29 PM

I currently have some pastel purples in that bed and I'm not sure I like it...maybe I need to try some deep purples?

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Dianna on Jan 06, 2010, 05:06:26 PM

I was thinking the vivid deep purples, Sarah.... :grinnnn:

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: barleychown on Jan 06, 2010, 05:15:48 PM

(https://www.southernspirithunters.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fv177%2Fbarleychown%2FIMG_0301.jpg&hash=736440ac31faab610248317ee9fb738be028bee9)


Am I just being too critical? Lord knows my eye for color is somewhat lacking...

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Dianna on Jan 06, 2010, 05:46:13 PM

I think a darker purple would be gorgeous in there, but I like the lighter ones that you have, too. Are those coneflowers? :grinnnn:

Your yard looks so happy... :BigGrin:

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: barleychown on Jan 06, 2010, 06:32:58 PM

They are a reseeding flower...think it's dames rocket. It puts itself everywhere...I pull it where I don't want it.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: bestofour on Jan 06, 2010, 07:31:17 PM

I like the red and I would say add white but you mentioned that shasta daisies are everywhere.  I just can't see them in that picture.  I think when you get too many  totally different colors it takes away from the punch of the area.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Triss on Jan 06, 2010, 10:02:06 PM

That area already looks awesome.  I would go for some yellows/oranges/whites.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: sunsoaker on Jan 06, 2010, 10:21:55 PM

I'm thinking the yellows and oranges would look great mixed in there.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: landofoz on Jan 07, 2010, 10:40:00 AM

Is that your house?  It's beautiful!!  I suck with colors - it's really really not my thing, but I just had to comment on the gorgeous house!!

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: duh on Jan 07, 2010, 02:33:29 PM

I suck at colors also.  So I am of no help.  I love what you have there. 

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: bestofour on Jan 07, 2010, 02:38:13 PM

Quote from: landofoz on Jan 07, 2010, 10:40:00 AM

Is that your house?  It's beautiful!! 

and she's going to paint the outside, SHE is going to paint, this summer.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: barleychown on Jan 27, 2010, 08:37:38 PM

Thank you Sarah loo...I love the brick on my house. The color isn't quite what I envisioned, but I still like it.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Penny on Jan 28, 2010, 07:07:19 AM

If you are going to paint Sarah, i wouldnt go too much off of what you have now, your limited because of the roof color, so you could go with a darker shade of grey, with a grey/green trim color and somthing bright for the door, or even white, my front door is cranberry.

I see that your door is white, would you consider painting it?

We hope paint our house this summer too.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: duh on Jan 28, 2010, 07:42:17 AM

One good thing about vinyl siding is that it doesn't have to be painted.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Penny on Jan 28, 2010, 08:13:47 AM

That is true Tammy, but sometimes its nice to freshen it up, depending on the age of the siding.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: duh on Jan 30, 2010, 04:40:51 PM

I was planning on a good scrub come late spring when the temperatures have warmed up.  Then I'll be doing some repair work on them too.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Dianna on Jan 30, 2010, 06:07:29 PM

Pressure-washing makes easier work of cleaning the siding... :wink5:

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: bestofour on Jan 30, 2010, 06:47:18 PM

our siding says not to pressure wash, to use Tide and a light bristle brush.  Year before last when we washed ours everyone thought we had new siding put on.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: duh on Jan 31, 2010, 08:06:57 AM

Tide huh?  I can do that.  I do have to find the right brush and a long handle.  I hate getting on the ladder.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: bestofour on Jan 31, 2010, 02:54:47 PM

That's exactly what we got Tammy, a long, like a mop handle, that could be extended out to very long (we have a top story on our house) and filled a bucket with water and Tide and squirted it off with a water nose.  It gets the windows too so take off your screens.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: Bonnie on Jan 31, 2010, 04:08:53 PM

Wow, that sounds like a lot of work.

Title: Re: Color ideas needed
Post by: bestofour on Jan 31, 2010, 04:50:14 PM

Once we got everything set up it wasn't much work at all.