Green
April 11, 2007
Inland sea oats
Another view of the sea oats, under evergreen yaupon holly
Spring green cloaks the patio garden.
Green is the easiest color to overlook, but it’s the workhorse of the garden. I’m grateful for evergreen shrubs, trees, and perennials that provide restful color all year long, but I do love that intense spring green of the sea oats and the cedar elm.
That’s my color wheel for today. What colors reign in your garden this week?
Hmmm. Somebody suggested inland sea oats for a shady area in my yard. However those look taller than I was imagining.
They can get between two and three feet tall by fall. Keep in mind that they seed out aggressively. That can be good if you have a large area to fill in or, alternatively, a self-contained area. —Pam
White. 🙁
Kim, I’m so far out of the winter mindset (even with our surprise sleet the other day) that it took me a few moments to process your cryptic response. Then I realized: snow. Still snow? Hang in there. Surely the green will appear soon. —Pam
The color wheel was great, Pam~ you have such an abundance of blooms in all categories and at one time, as well as all the greens. Your inland sea oats look perfect there – mine are still in the container, because I keep chickening out at setting them free.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Did they seed out from the container last fall? They’re pretty determined once those gorgeous seedheads appear in the fall. Still, they’re not that hard to pluck while the seedlings are small. —Pam
I always wondered what sea oats would look like in a garden. They look great with the holly. What a lush yard already! Makes me jealous when ours still has the bedraggled look of winter.
I enjoyed these color posts. Especially the yellow opuntia flowers. We have prickly pear — the standard green with spines — all over some land we own in Hays County and those plants bloom but the flowers are not as lovely nor as numerous. And I’m coveting that smoke tree. What variety is yours? I planted one (my memory of it is that is was some native variety. Is that possible?) years ago but it died. Do you know if those are smoke trees in the planting area at the corner of Lamar and 35th, near Central Market?
You’re certainly set with images — and blooms — for this Sunday!
— Susan
I don’t know what variety my smoke tree is, Susan. It’s not native but Chinese, I know that much. I’ll have to check out the ones near Central Market. —Pam
It was such a treat to scroll through all your photos of the colors in your garden. All beautiful! Thank you.
Thank you for stopping by. —Pam
Sehr schön im freie Leben.
Ich wünsche alles gute und Grüße aus Stuttgart/Germany
Danke schön. —Pam
Green and white. Green because of the evergreens and the lawn, white because it’s blossom time in my kitchen garden.
Lovely pics. Your garden looks great this time of year. Today it’s rather warm over here as it’s 25 C. Around 15 – 18 C would be normal. I’m not complaining though! 🙂
That’s about 77 degrees F. That does sound warmer than I’d have guessed for the Netherlands. It’s supposed to be even warmer—80 F.—here today, but thankfully a cold front is coming that will drop us back down into the low 70s. Perhaps it’s strange to long for cooler temps when so many other garden bloggers are longing for a thaw, but vive la différence! —Pam