a garden maker's notes

The “Daylily Garden”,  so named because of the predominant genus, contains other plants, too. The “others” serve as compliments in form, texture, or color and carry the garden’s succession of bloom, texture, and form combinations into other months. Even though there are daylilies (hemerocallis) planted in this garden that bloom in August or September–most color this part of the [...]

Yellow Hemerocallis ‘Happy Returns’ and the yellow-orange Coreopsis brightens the purple spikes of Salvia and low mound of  lavender blue Nepeta ‘6 Hills Giant’. A quick look at the color wheel illustrates the dynamic duo as ‘complements’. In the language of color, complementary colors intensify each other like a passionate affair. Yellow reads more yellow in purple [...]