{"id":5235,"date":"2013-09-27T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T18:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T21:58:06","slug":"fall-display-ideas-in-dark-purple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2013\/09\/fall-display-ideas-in-dark-purple\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Display Ideas in Dark Purple"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you have Cochicum blooming in your garden right now, why not discover how \nlong these flowers can last in water? Hint – longer than a week.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nMy whirl wind speaking tour is almost over, as I drive 6 hours to upstate New York to speak tomorrow at a meeting of the Adirondak chapter of the American Rock Garden Society (NARGS) at Cornel University where I will be presenting a talk about winter blooming bulbs. After an amazing and inspiring few days in Atlanta as the Garden Bloggers Conference last week, I am both energized and exhausted. I made many new friends as well as meeting dozens of other garden bloggers who I only knew as thumbnail images and hashtag handles. Isn’t ‘real’ better than digital sometimes?<\/p>\n
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Callicarpa provides a yummy( yet not edible!) option for all color displays. Look for shrubs in the spring \nat garden centers, and prune them careful so you don’t end up with plants that look chopped up like this…treat them more like forsythia – a biannual trim, which will allow long, graceful branches to form, like wands covered with berries….<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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…so it will look like this. Callicarpa dichotoma<\/i> and other Callicarpa species \ncan be hard to find, but find at many of the on-line nurseries with a simple Google search. \nYour neighbors will be jealous when they see this color in your garden.<\/p>\n
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\nSince I am packing for my last trip, here is some images from my inspiration boards for my yet-to-be-designed fall displays that I am planning for my home and garden. Yes, sage and puple is my color theme this year. Eggplant, verdigris, malachite, purple, plum – you get the idea. I nice rest for the eyes from all of that orange, right?<\/p>\n
Last year I tested this grey and black display idea inspired by galvanized metal. There is \nstill a lot of purple going on here.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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New England Asters, are often overlooked by many new gardeners, as most plant their perennial borders in \nthe spring, when pots of asters are green and boring. On a chilly September evening, these tall and \nbrilliant plants are anything but boring. Can you count the honeybees?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n