ORANGE in the garden
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
2 years agoRelated Discussions
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Comments (5)I like all dahlia colors. Never used to want red (mostly to keep down the numbers of flowers in my beds) now I have all kinds of reds and just ordered more LOL. Way back when I started out with Chimacum Topaz and a very miniature orange dahlia, then realizing there were thousands more shapes colors and sizes to choose from, I stuck with oranges, bronzes, yellows to "match" what I had growing. Then came the purples, lavenders, whites, pinks, later the reds LOL..... you know how it goes! I'm sure Susan Ambrose has forgiven you. A college friend had me over to their newly bought home. We toured from room to room while she lamented about the former owner's hideous color schemes in various rooms and the work involved in redecorating. The kitchen was behind a swinging door so when it opened, we were assualted by the most hideous smothering blue. Of course, I empathized with just how hideous the kitchen was..... only to have her tell me "I know. This didn't turn out like we had hoped!" LOL My bad....See MoreSatsuma Mandarin and Satsuma Orange: Difference?
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Comments (14)Jean...I haven't had much trouble with Distant Drums disease-resistance but I was disappointed that it didn't fare well over this past winter, since its supposed to be fairly hardy. It was so huge last summer but was winter-killed to the ground and now is just one cane and not very vigorous. (Maybe it was a bad clone?) I also love the multi-colored blooms so if this plant doesn't make it through the upcoming winter I will definitely get a replacement. Becky....of the two, most definitely Heaven on Earth is my favorite because it has HUGE blooms, a vigorous habit, shiny leaves that for me here stay very healthy, and it blooms abundantly. The bloom color also varies which makes it interesting. In cool weather it tends to be more orange and more vibrant, but in hot weather it takes on peach to apricot-pink tones. And even here in zone 4 it makes a good-sized bush, much more than any other floribunda I grow and its form is bushy. I know this doesn't apply to your zone, but for those in cold zones it may be of interest that it is quite hardy. And it has a pleasing light tea fragrance. It is one of the most admired roses in my garden. So really, it lives up to its name! Celeste...See Moremystery orange tomato in my garden this year
Comments (7)Barb, you know from looking at Tania's site, below, that I was the one who introduced GRS so know it well. The hearts it can give can be blunt or somewhat acute, but can be Ided as hearts, which I don't see in the pictures your show. I also don't think it's a mutation of GRS. Yes, a variety that is red can mutate to yellow, but it's due to what's called a somatic mutation, that is a mutation of DNA in a plant cell, not in the DNA of a seed, and such somatic mutations can lead to one branch having the different color, or shape or size, or even one fruit being different. Yellow Riesentraube resulted from ONE fruit on a plant of normal reds appearing. Marjorie Morris, who sent me GRS also sent me seeds for what she called Orange Strawberry which was a stray seed in a pack of the variety Pineapple. And I think what you have is a stray seed and could it be Dr Wyche, which I also know well. I have no idea since there are many many varieties that look like what you have. If it's astray seed then you should be able to ID it from what that seed seller grows, even though she says otherwise.Knowing many seed vendors, they don't always list for sale what they have and having done many seed offers myself, I'm not commercial, I know that stray seeds can, well, just appear. LOL But I'm quite confident it isn't a mutation of German Red Strawberry.Most seed sellers don't like it when stray seeds appear, why not, but for several years I did a wrong varieties thread here at GW, and they certainly do appear, more so from traded seeds but also from purchased seeds. Summary? Call it a mystery one and if you like it continue to grow it, but it will just have to be another orphan, as I see it. (smile) Carolyn Here is a link that might be useful: German Red Strawberry...See More
oursteelers 8B PNW
2 years agoTrue orange is hard to find in my garden, most of my orange shades are softer but I found a couple
gardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
2 years ago
nicholsworth Z6 Indianapolis
2 years agoKousa dogwood
a few years ago..an orange coleus that wasn't under attack by squirrels..
couldn't find a pic of my dark foliage begonia with orange blooms..I loved it..
HU-19659701
2 years agodiggerdee zone 6 CT
2 years agooursteelers I LOVE the purple and orange together! One of my favorite combinations. And sandyslopes, I won't be without Sungolds. When my kids were little they would just stand in the garden and eat them off the vine!
I've come full circle on orange. I remember when I first started gardening I got an orange phlox by mail-order by mistake, and I was appalled, lol. But little by little I've come around. My garden is predominantly pinks and purples, but I have one corner where I have all hotter colors, and I love the orange pops of color!
Autumn Sunset (probably should be in that other apricot-peach-salmon thread lol)
Cosmos Bright Lights
Frans Hals
Unknown daylily
Hmm, this might be the same unknown daylily
Volunteer glads from the garden (another candidate for that other thread!)
Helenium Mardi Gras
Rudbeckia - maybe Cherokee Sunset
I feel like I have so much more but like gardengal, don't have the photos to show! A tiny bit of orange in my portulacas
:)
Dee
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
2 years ago
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
2 years agoI am a fan of orange! Ken that Azalea is wonderful along with all that followed.
Ken did you come up with a title for the other thread?
Asclepias tuberosa
Iris domestica
The lowly fulva often referred to as ditch lily has its charm.
Marmalade
Echinacea 'Julia'
Helenium 'Loydster Weick'
Helenium 'Sahins Early Flowerer'
peren.all Zone 5a Ontario Canada
2 years agoA few more.
Lilium 'Enchantment'. Between the lily beetle and chipmunks this has taken a beating.
Lilium lancifolium
Lilium philadelphicum
Papaver o.
oursteelers 8B PNW
2 years agodiggerdee zone 6 CT
2 years agodiggerdee zone 6 CT
2 years agoI still can't get over the fact that I have no pics of my ditch lilies, because I'm such a fan when they are in the right spot (along a stone wall, etc) but I remembered this photo. Not my garden, but an old farmstead down the street. It's a poor picture of a glorious corner but it's the best I have. The sun comes up at the end of that road down the hill, and at sunrise that corner just glows! The daylilies continue both to the left and to the right but unfortunately have gotten overgrown by non-native vining weeds
:)Dee
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
2 years ago
erasmus_gw
2 years ago
Pat Austin in foreground, Crepuscule rose behind.
Is the Bering Sea a garden? Here's the Bering Sea from the deck of a fishing boat. My daughter spent a lot of time working on fishing boats in the Bering Sea.\
arbordave (SE MI)
2 years agolast modified: 2 years ago"Is the Bering Sea a garden?" I suppose it was a garden of sorts (Beringia) thousands of years ago ;) Amazing photo erasmus.
unknown orange tulip
Fritillary
Viceroy
erasmus_gw
2 years ago
BlueberryBundtcake - 6a/5b MA