Color your garden happy
By Norman Winter - Tribune News Service
This Eastern Tiger Swallowtail likes yellow too as it visits Superbells Yellow calibrachoa. Norman Winter/TNS
If there were a color that represents happiness in the garden, it would have to be yellow. One of the three primary colors, it has the power to evoke hope and excitement. When the forsythia breaks forth in the early spring, it not only catches your eye, it invigorates your step. Winter is over and a new season has been born.
On the other hand, there is a reason the school bus is yellow, a motive behind so many highway signs with a yellow background. You notice, you pay attention. Yellow is from the hot side of the wheel and offers warmth like the brilliant sun. A pocket of yellow flowers at your entrance will give a warm welcome to your visitors.
Gardens of beauty await
By Norman Winter - Tribune News Service
Heuchera varieties Dolce Spearmint and Primo Wild Rose show off their beauty in front of Double Play Candy Corn spirea at The Landings Shopping Center in Columbus, Georgia.
There are gardens of untold beauty for whom the coral bells show and I know many of you in the South desperately want them. Just think all of those pages of gorgeous heuchera varieties (coral bells) have their DNA forever linked to natives in the United States.
The Garden Guy came across gorgeous wild ones in the North Georgia Mountains, yet it has been rare to see them growing in a garden. To be exact, I have never seen them in a garden in the South with which I wasn’t somehow associated. I know they must be there, and I invite photo submissions.
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