Has anyone painted an earthy lavender or plum?
redbazel
16 years ago
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Comments (11)I have Italian plums (one of the few fruit trees the deer don't eat!) but they only bloom every other year. Has yours missed two years of blooms...or is it just now old enough to bloom? They're tasty plums for baking, so if you decide to separate it...I'd try to save it and plant it further out in the yard. The birds love them for sitting and yelling at the cats (the trees aren't really big enough for nesting) but they are pretty, when they bloom! And they bring in lots of bumblebees and other beneficial insects :) The tree on the left is the Italian plum... From Lavender's Garden And this one, on the left, is actually a bunch of smaller shoots (I think it was cut down long ago) that came up and grew together, as one big tree. From Lavender's Garden These pictures are from last week! The snow finally melted and it's supposed to be in the 50s and 60s this week. I'll take some more pictures, when them bloom....See MoreSuggestion for an Outstanding Plum/Purple/Lavender Color Rose?
Comments (19)I am a west-coast rose grower and would recommend one that I grow, the floribunda "Love Potion." It fits your width restriction, has glossy, disease-resistant foliage and gives plenty of fragrant, lavender blooms. (re: real blackspot -- that shouldn't be a problem in your area, but it resists that too) I will put a link to the HelpMeFind description, and you can click on the photos tab for more pictures. Heirloom Roses does carry it and you might check with Armstrong too: Here is a link that might be useful: Love Potion...See MoreHelp! Has anyone used these paint colors?!?
Comments (7)I don't know those colors but wanted to say that it seems like an awful lot of color changes throughout your home. Every room doesn't have to be a different color. It's possible you might lose a nice calm flow, feeling choppy, depending how much difference there is. The other thing is that painters charge extra for paint color changes. The one I have seen is Wool Skein. The house had good natural light. It would seem like a dark color for all of your ceilings. It was very pretty on the walls, appearing a a golden tannish neutral, not real light but not dark either. When I've looked at its swatch in the past I was surprised how different it looked there, not so tan. Is your home an open concept style?...See MoreIs it weird to paint my home office a dusty plum color?
Comments (20)I am using several purples in our house. I am in the midst of painting most of our rooms so don't have completed pix yet, but we have a very deep dark purple for den and dining room walls (open plan, 2 walls total). It is Purple rain by BM and is a deep velvet purple. It looks amazing paired with bright white trim and I can't wait to see the white Roman shade installed there with it (and eventually see it when the floors get refinished darker and the furniture moves back in). I did a color like patty_cake's plum dandy for our bedroom ceiling (am not at home with the color names handy) and will stencil on the east and west walls of our bedroom in it over a pale gray and also use it inside our bedroom closet. The only one I am not so certain about it our bedroom ceiling. I was trying to break out of the box and do a colored ceiling (inspired by GWers), but I will have to see how I feel about it after the stencil is up and the room is put together. I may have gone too far with that one and may either go lighter, much darker, go white or add a silver metallic glaze to tone it down. It is pretty bold on our vaulted ceiling as it is. We have a light-medium lavender in our kitchen and a very pale lavender in our master bath (mirage white with a hint of the ceiling color added in to make sure the color tone worked). I used more of the bedroom ceiling color mixed with white ceiling paint for inside our coat closet as well. That makes 4 different shades (although our sons' room also has 2 dark bright purple walls with 2 less dark bright green ones, so we really have 5 purples, lol). Our living room, laundry room and hallway will have a perky green color (wales green at 75%). I didn't start out with a plan to paint so much purple, but they came out so nice I just kept going. I live with 2 boys and my dh and it is not terribly girly because none of our furniture or accessories will be purple. We are using a lot of white, gray, black and green with it. We have a very open plan so whatever color we chose would have to flow through several rooms. Reading over this post, it sounds funny, but IRL, it works nicely. I'll be posting as soon as we are further along and can get rid of all the drop cloths, cans of paint and construction debris all over and when we can move our stuff back up out of the bsmt and make it look less empty. I also have to get the stickers off the windows, install WTs and basically decorate from scratch....See Moreredbazel
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