Garden center display--hot colors for hot weather. Color is a powerful mood-setter, don't you think? So, too, is heat, but the mood created is cranky rather than energized.
I'm wondering if something with large tropical foliage would have worked better than the flax (?). maybe some 15 g palms or even some larger purple foliaged shrubs would help cool it down... Boxed purple Cotinus? even some nice wispy 5 g grasses...But with retail, you go with whathca got.
You sound like you have a great sense of design! I wish I did. Yes, retail display, you got what you got. They do great with what they have. I agree the Phormium is kind of "off" there.
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I love the zing of the oranges on that display. But perhaps with hot weather light blues might be better for the mood...
ReplyDeleteOr crank up the air conditioning instead and view the oranges from indoors :)
My method is that last thing, and it's working! :)
DeleteIf only we could water with the abandon of a garden center!
ReplyDeleteWe used to, Kris. We used to.
DeleteI'm wondering if something with large tropical foliage would have worked better than the flax (?). maybe some 15 g palms or even some larger purple foliaged shrubs would help cool it down... Boxed purple Cotinus? even some nice wispy 5 g grasses...But with retail, you go with whathca got.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like you have a great sense of design! I wish I did. Yes, retail display, you got what you got. They do great with what they have. I agree the Phormium is kind of "off" there.
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