There’s a lot to be said about yellow.
The color yellow is associated with the sun and life-giving warmth, while also being used as traffic warning signs.
Yellow represents happiness but before you say awwww… yellow is also associated with deciet and cowardice. But on a brighter note (no pun intended) it is also a symbol of hope.
In the language of flowers the Victorians used to convey words they would never say aloud, yellow roses most often meant jealousy. Today we think of them as the symbol of friendship and joy.
With all that said, if you had asked me a few years ago if I liked yellow in the garden, I’d say “no – well, maybe a little bit.” But today that is not the case – there is so much yellow in my garden … and I’m fast moving toward orange! 😳😱🍊 How about you?
Let the sun shine in!
YELLOW MEANS GO!
Yes, around here, a blooming Forsythia seems to shout “gardeners, start your engines!” (I do live in the sphere of the Indy 500!)
Yes, she says, the ground has warmed to at least 50 and spring work can begin. No doubt Mother Nature will have a good laugh and share some sneaky moves as we maneuver the next few weeks. I certainly remember last April 17 looking out on a garden draped in sheets and covered in buckets as the temps plunged in to the low 20s. I have the sheets and the buckets close at hand.
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SPRING IN MY ROSE GARDEN
Cindy Dale, ARS District Director / Deep South District
Award-winning gardener Cindy Dale joined me to walk us through the steps she takes to open her rose garden in the spring! Cindy grows in the deep south but all of us have much to learn from her experiences in the rose garden!
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NEW BOOK!
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, shall not cease. Genesis 8:22
Christie Purifoy has done it again. If you are like me and are a big fan of her books Garden Maker and A Home in Bloom, you will love the newly released Seedtime and Harvest. Few garden writers go to the very heart of gardening as Christie does. Yes, she supplies tips and tricks for gardeners but what I get from Christie’s writing is so much more. I am reminded of why I garden and the deeper connection it brings to everything around me.
From Seedtime and Harvest…
It isn’t certainty or guarantees that make the ground beneath our feet firm, it is love.
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GO TIME!
Yes, it’s go time in the garden and the color yellow leads the way. 💛 💛 💛
Yellow used to be my very favorite color for years. I remember a yellow dress with a round neck scarf that I loved wearing. And I still love the color yellow. I think of VanGogh, and that was his favorite color from what I have read. I love the yellow and multi-petaled Gina Lollobrigida rose. Yellow daffodils in bloom and, of course, the yellow forsythia tell us to bring on the cheer, Spring is here. Your roses are utterly beautiful! Happy Saint Patrick’s Day to you and your family!
I used to feel about yellow roses like I still feel about white, not a fan. Then I met Golden Celebration and my whole world and opinion changed (besides yellow being my husband’s favorite color). I started looking up yellow roses and found several that I now look forward to growing: Lemon Spice, Lady Hillingdon, Julia Child. Charles Darwin, Vanessa Bell and Teasing Georgia.
Maybe it is an acquired taste!! ☀️💛
Yellow had been one of my ‘lesser’ favorite colors, . . . but it was the best color for the particular home that I inhabited for years in town. It was painted harvest gold with brown trim. White flowers just looked like litter that had blown into the yard. Blue and purple did not go well with it. Yellow and orange, perhaps with a bit of red, were best. Neighbors like the nasturtium (until they realized what they were) and orange and yellow gladiolus. A neighbor requested the yellow, orange and red sunflowers that looked so good there. Of course, I grew plenty of white flowers in back.
Sounds like good solutions all around!! 😄
Yes, I miss that garden very much. The climate and the soil were ideal, and there were plenty of neighbors to select colors for it. I can grow just about anything that will grow here, but I can not select colors.
Wonderful memories
Someone once told me that yellow is the most common color in the flower garden.Do you think that is true?
It seems yellow and white are the most common. 💐
I’m OK with a pale yellow in small doses. I also love peach, but orange is a definite “no” for me!!
I LOVE Bathsheba and someone told me they see a lot of orange in it. 😱
I totally hear you on orange! However, I love Bathsheba and I heard someone refer to her as a rose with orange tones! So I’m getting close! 😄