Hints and tips:
...I added violets and Queen Anne’s jonquil, to my mind the richest, headiest of the daffodils....
...Queen Fab holds clustered heads of pale violet flowers on stems about a foot and half high. She is not hardy, but if planted in late April she will usually survive a mid-May frost....
...Matisse favoured more nuanced hues, with touches of lavender, violet, crimson, yellow-gold and sienna....
...In “Purple Atmosphere” (1969), dense violet smoke sweeps across a stretch of Santa Barbara beach, veiling the border between land and sea....
...Scarlet and white, deep violet-purple and pale yellow, anything which minimises rose carmine and excludes the gruesome ones with veins and streaks of violet on their flowers: do not under or overwater, as...
...I enjoy the scented mid-blue flowers on the lovely Cassandra, to my eye the best of the upright freestanding clematis for a border....
...The sensory overload borders on the hallucinogenic: I came away with three tablecloths, two completely the wrong size, because the colours were so enchanting....
...Monte Rosa’s iced crests straddle the Italian border. Below the heights are the forests, in orchestras of colour. The larches are the brass section, leading the light in fanfares of gold....
...Long-lost orchids and violets were supposedly longing to burst into flower beneath our lawns. Most of us would have been graced with nettles, ground-elder and bindweed if we had given up gardening....
...Canfranc had been one of only three places the railway crossed the border....
...For Alfie, a border collie that doesn’t hug, balks at being picked up and avoids eye contact, the end of our run signals a special time....
...Last year I began to like Nicotiana x sanderae Perfume Deep Purple, a newish violet purple at a height of only a foot and a half. It is noticeably scented, but the heat in July ruined it....
...In the front courtyard the garden used to greet visitors with dark violet petunias, fine dark red pelargoniums and a stunning border of blues and misty purples....
...Violet-flowered primulas were a fine sight but the nursery’s range of rare Meconopsis poppies was breathtaking, from tall yellows and reds to tiny dark violet purples, which nobody has ever shown before....
...In an adjoining bed, magenta-pink Salvia involucrata is combined only with dark violet-blue Salvia Amistad, each enhancing the other’s colour....
...Some way from the house, a double border contains clumps of a deep violet-blue campanula at a height of about 4ft....
...They have a prominent lower lip that is violet, flecked with white, and acts as a landing platform for pollinators....
...Clumps of violet-grey storm clouds roiled slowly across the horizon; slanting streaks of rain were lit up as if by a spotlight from the wings....
...Each faux marble panel has a different palette: violet-to-purple, rose-to-oxblood, lemon to mustard....
...That was unusual at the time,” says Manners, daughter of a farming family on the Welsh borders who has lived at Belvoir with her husband (now separated) for more than two decades and raised five children...
...With hardly a brain on the premises, I tended the spring borders and the summer’s seedlings, alone in what is otherwise an academic hive....
...They littered borders with revolting slimeballs of dead and dying slugs. They could also poison pets, wild birds and hedgehogs....
...In borders I use the taller varieties, especially the dark inky violet ones, as their colour is unmatchable in yellow-dominated August. A few corms planted at intervals transform a late summer border....
...Just this week there were several explosions in Transnistria, a breakaway region whose border is an hour’s drive from Chisinau....
...Thanks to the family’s surrounding farm, she could call on JCB diggers to excavate her new borders to a significant depth....
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