Dianna Vreeland , the celebrated editor program ofVoguemagazine , was fabled for the pronouncements that she made about all form of things . One of the most famed was , “ pinkish is the navy blue of India . ” Of course , this program line came at a time when navy blue was one of the recurrent “ impersonal ” colors in women ’s fashion in the United States . Mrs. Vreeland has long since pop off to the capital fashion show in the sky , but you still hear pronouncements of all form about colors . A few years ago , all the fashion and shelter magazine search to convince us that “ gray is the fresh pitch blackness . ” Two years ago , brown became the new gray . This twelvemonth I really trust that apricot is the new Robert Brown .
grounds of this course is plentiful in the tax shelter magazines . It is also evident in the new garden catalogs . Since I am fond of peach myself , and use it as an accent coloring material in my front borders , I was proud of to find so many late introductions in that shade .
Peach , apricot , salmon , and exchangeable spectre workplace well in the garden because they get along so nicely with a host of other people of color . They couple course with yellows and shine against a backdrop of grim light-green foliage . peachy-colored blooms that hug the icteric ( as opposed to the pink ) side of the spectrum duad marvelously well withtrue blueflowers . I would not compound them with anything empurpled , pink or reddish unless I also had an terrible lot ofwhite flush or green leaveson script to act as a fender .
For a farseeing time it was so hard to recover anything colorful for suspicious spots that it did n’t devote to be choosy . Hostas are lovely , but the flowers are either pristine white or , more often , wash out purple . When I depend at the regal single I can empathise with the hoi polloi who merely edit them off . But help has arrived for peach - lovingshade gardeners . Last year and possibly the year before , several of the seed and plant purveyor come out with apricot var. of foxglove ( Digitalis ) . Now you’re able to also get some peachy - tinct begonia to put in a pot in the middle of the shady border . And , as if that is n’t enough , Thompson & Morgan ( 800/274 - 7333 or www.thompson-morgan.com ) has introduced a new reddish blue , ‘ FamecheckApricot ’ ( Viola sororaria ‘ Famecheck Apricot ’ ) , that can hug the undercoat at the front of a fishy showing .
Brugmansia , so lethal , yet so alluring , is a splendid shrubby plant that is fond in the northeast , but can be grown out-of-door year round in more temperate climates . I have long coveted brugmansia ’s drooping trumpet - shaped peak . Now I am emotional to see that I can have them in peach . I may just buy another huge ultralight works pot , along with an appropriately - sized saucer on wheel , so that I can seethe my genus Brugmansia indoors each year just before C flies .
pictorial orange roses impart me cold , except when they are planted in dead over - the - top “ red-hot ” hued gardens . Softer apricot tad , on the other hand , warm up my soul . ‘ Abraham Darby ’ , one of David Austin ’s English Roses , is big , unassailable , fragrant and floriferous with a bully radiance . I am also drawn to ‘ Celtic Pride ’ , a rosiness I found in the Heirloom Roses catalogue ( 503/583 - 1576 or www.heirloomroses.com ) . ‘ Celtic Pride ’ has an one-time - fashioned aspect to it , and produces golden apricot peak in fragrant bunch . It is no surprise that ‘ Just Joey ’ , a intercrossed tea rose first introduced in 1973 , was vote “ The World ’s Favorite Rose ” at the 1994 Roseworld Convention in New Zealand . The long - stemmed salad days are perfect for cut , and the soft cop colouring is something especial .
If you care peach tones , then you have undoubtedly already filled your sunny spaces with snapdragons , dahlias , mellisonant genus Alyssum and mayhap even chrysanthemums in that wraith . You in all likelihood have tall spires of ‘ Chater ’s Double Apricot ’ hollyhocks as well . This year , you’re able to also sow come of a new agastache , ‘ Apricot Sprite ’ ( Agastache aurantiaca ) . This plant , which grows to be 15 - 18 - inches tall , sports prime spike with scads of stretch apricot - slanted florets . It is what Thompson & Morgan calls a “ half hardy perennial ” , which means that it is best treated as an annual in the northeast . Seeds should be set out indoors in February for summer bloom . Mimulus ‘ Apricot ’ ( Mimulus x auranticus ) ( usable from Select Seeds 860/684 - 9310 or www.selectseeds.com ) is another beguiling plant . A Sunday lover , its flowers bear a faint resemblance to undivided hollyhocks , rising on sturdy 2 - foot fore .
If peach gives you a thrill , fill your garden with it now while it ’s still in style . In no time flat , mauve or puce or chartreuse may become next class ’s dish .
by E. Ginsburg
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