Comments on: Seeing Red

By: Rebecca @ In The Garden

Rebecca @ In The Garden — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:38:33 +0000

Wow, your post is so impressive. I found my way here via ‘A Caribbean Garden’ and am so very flattered that you took on my meme and added your interpretation of splitting the colours into different posts. Your coleus is gorgeous, and the blood grass and stachys look wonderful together. I also like the red peppers with the dark foliage. So many beautiful and interesting plants, I look forward to your subsequent posts! Would you like me to add your post to my list? I’d be happy to do so. :) Rebecca

Hi Rebecca! Thanks ever so much for coming up with such a great form of therapy for cabin fever. Yes, I’d be honored to be added to your list. This link will take readers to all posts in the series: http://hayefield.com/category/through-the-rainbow/
-Nan

By: Nancy McDonald

Nancy McDonald — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 23:27:29 +0000

Wonderful! Cheerful! For a display garden of hardy roses at one of our local historic buildings, we need a truly red hardy rose (hardy as in Zone 5b at best). So many roses listed as “red” are actually magenta. We’re looking for Christmas, American flag, stop sign, fire engine RED, not pink on steroids. Any suggestions? And by the way, we need a true red peony as well. Ideas, anyone?

Hmmm…I get what you’re saying about the RED roses; I’ll have to think about that one. To my eye, Paeonia tenuifolia is a true red, but I could be wrong.
-Nan

By: Josie

Josie — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 12:29:31 +0000

Ciao Nan! Non vedo l’ora di ammirare anche i post con gli altri colori, mamma mia che meraviglia!!
Leggere i tuoi post mi lascia sempre a bocca aperta, sono molto istruttivi, soprattutto per l’importanza che dai ai fogliami.
Per stare in tema col colore rosso, posso permettermi di suggerire dei Penstemon spontanei che ho scovato stamattina? (magari li conosci già..)
Penstemon eatonii, Penstemon cardinalis, Penstemon rostriflorus, Penstemon subulatus.

Hello, Josie. It’s great to meet another member of the Furighedda Gardening team! You are right that the penstemons offer some truly gorgeous reds; I just wish I could grow them here. (Well, I can grow P. barbatus, but its red isn’t as vibrant as some of the others you mentioned.)

Happy gardening!
-Nan