Posted by admin | Posted in My home garden | Posted on 16-07-2009
Orange is brought into fashion again this year. You must never forget about the white flowers when have to mix the colors. The white color must exist in every flowers garden. So try even for a little segment of your garden to create a lovely happy combination of fresh orange flowers and pure white flowers. This chromatic couple invests your resting place with lively air because of orange flowers during the day and the white stands out in the night, gently shining the sunset.
Orange flowers are also able to attenuate the distances and bring closer the insidious places of the flowers garden. The orange can be used in 30 – 40 percents mixed with white, it becomes overwhelming and obsessive when it’s too much. Different orange tones send away the monotony: apricot orange, yellow-orange, red-orange. But if we speak about white flowers, you’ll put how many you want to. Let free your imagination, allow the blue-violet spots to get the gold. Plant some of these here and there and we guarantee the effect.
Since spring until fall there are several floral partners that bloom in white and orange: white tulips, “White Triumphator” species, and orange tulips, “Red Shine” species; match them with early “Orange Bedder” or “Wallflower” Harpur Crewe (Cheiranthus). The wallflower grows in well-drained, poor to moderate fertile, preferably alkaline soil, in full sun. Usually dies after just a few years, but easily propagated by cuttings in summer.
“Westerland” orange flowers shrub plays host to impetuous white Lily and wild Crambe cordifolia. Westerland Rosa species are slighstly larger and more spreading than most others. Their general good health and vigour makes them easy to grow and they repeat flower over a long period. Flowering begins in early summer, with repeat flushes up until early autumn. This modern shrub, Westerland Rosa, grows in well-drained but moist, moderately fertile soil that is rich in organic matter. Choose an open, sunny site in your flowers garden to put the roses. We’d like to make a short description of Crambe cordifolia. It’s a tall, clump-forming, vigorous perennial grown for its stature and its fragrant, airy, billowing sprays of small white flowers which are very attractive to bees. These are borne on strong stems in summer above the large, elegant, dark green leaves. Here, in Romania, the florists got used to put Crambe Cordifolia in the bridal bouquet, alternating with big white flowers or any color the bride wants to have in her wedding bouquet. Therefore, we like to call Crambe cordifolia “bride’s flower”; almost nobody knows its real botanical name. In a bouquet, “Bride’s flower” gives space and also separates the colors, which happens in the garden too. This white flower is easy to grow. It best grows in deep, fertile soil, but it accepts any well-drained soil, in full sun or partial shade. Provide shelter from strong winds.
Just near the glorious orange Lilies “Orange King” (Alstroemeria) is used to grow and bloom the Bird’s eye “Schneeriesin’” (Pseudolysimachion), white and tall. Alstroemeria is a tuberous perennial, summer-flowering, produces heads of widely flared flowers. The mi-green leaves are narrow and twisted. “Orange King” grows in moist but well-drained, fertile soil, in full sun. Mulch thickly in areas with very cold winters. Leave undisturbed to form clumps. Veronica “Schneeriesin” is a hardy upright, perennial which bears flower spikes of white in late summer and early autumn and grows in moderate fertile moist and well-drained soil in full or part sun.
Orange summer flowers like Marigold (Tagetes) and Tithonia suit well to Cleomes and white stars Cosmos. The dwarf marigold “Fiesta Gitana” is a bushy, fast-growing annual which produces masses of usually double flower-heads in pastel orange or yellow, including bi-colors, from summer to autumn. As an advice, deadhead them regularly to prolong flowering. These Marigolds are market out with the help of Cleome Hassleriana. There is a species, “Helen Campbell”, very attractive for its unusual, beautiful flowers. Both for Marigolds and Cleomes provide light, fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny position.
Orange species are surrounded by a vaporous curb of “Michaelmas Daisy” (Aster ericoides). These Asters are so named “Michaelmas Daisy” because they are member of Daisy family and they bloom through Michaelmas, providing a late show of color and bloom in the garden. It will bloom on well drained soil and will not appreciate the summer drying. Beyond that they prefer full sun, but tolerate part sun or part shade.

We need pictures ,lots of them and big ones esp. when you are mentioning a specific plant, please!