Color Your World in Piggy Pink

We’re still in the garden at Great Dixter in the UK! Isn’t this a great selection of plants for Piggy Pink? If you would like to know more about Great Dixter I have written posts about it Here, Here, and Here! Color your World  is a 4 month long daily blogging challenge event. Each day…

Color Your World in Red Violet

  I don’t think I’ll ever run out of beautiful flower photos from Great Dixter Gardens in the UK! Enjoy these beauties! Color your World  is a 4 month long daily blogging challenge event. Each day has a new color theme based on a crayon color in Crayola’s box of 120 crayons. The challenge runs…

Color Your World in Orchid

Various tones of Orchid may range from grayish purple to purplish-pink to strong reddish purple. Orchid is a British charity which funds research into the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of prostate , penile and testicular cancer. It was set up in 1996 by former testicular cancer sufferer, Colin Osborne. The prostate, penile and testicular cancer awareness ribbon is represented by…

Color Your World in Shocking Pink!

When I think of the South and flowers, the first thing that comes to mind is the flowering shrub, the azaleas. Wow do they pack a punch of color! Have you ever watched the Augusta National Golf Tournament? The entire course is blanketed in azaleas! This year there is concern that the azaleas may be…

Color Your World in Fuchsia

  The color of the day is Fuchsia. Enjoy the garden! More beautiful blooms from the UK! Color your World  is a 4 month long daily blogging challenge event. Each day has a new color theme based on a crayon color in Crayola’s box of 120 crayons. The challenge runs January 1, 2017 to April…

Color Your World In the Rest of the Purples

  The last of the purpley colors are Purple Mountain Majesty, Violet Purple, Wisteria and Vivid Violet.  We can find my favorite purple shaded flowers in the garden! How about the purple stems? Or the single lonely flower? Or the combination of purple and pink? I love the raggedy dandelion-like leaf on these tall violet…

Color Your World in Blue Violet

The Blue Violet flowers in the garden are always my favorites! I love them paired with the bright lime plants and leaves for contrast. The above photos were taken at the Great Dixter Gardens in  the UK. I like the look of unruliness here! These lovelies were found in a rock garden in St Ives,…

Color Your World in Indigo

I am featuring lovely indigo colors in the UK today! Enjoy! Color your World  is a 4 month long daily blogging challenge event. Each day has a new color theme based on a crayon color in Crayola’s box of 120 crayons. The challenge runs January 1, 2017 to April 29, 2017. Please join us in…

Color Your World in Periwinkle

The color Periwinkle is a favorite of mine; not quite blue and not quite purple. And I like the word itself too! This cottage shed was one on the property at The Garden Shed where we stayed in Benenden, in the UK, during my annual English Garden Tour. So much fun to wake up every…

Color Your World: Paris is Bathed in Blue

Paris at Christmas is decorated in BLUE, the color for today! Color your World  is a 4 month long daily blogging challenge event. Each day has a new color theme based on a crayon color in Crayola’s box of 120 crayons. The challenge runs January 1, 2017 to April 29, 2017. Please join us in this…

Color Your World; In the Navy it’s Blue

I’m feeling very confident in my color choice for Navy Blue! How about that Blue Brexit Boat in Cornwall? Pegged it! Or the Navy Blue Sea in Istanbul? Yep! Color your World  is a 4 month long daily blogging challenge event. Each day has a new color theme based on a crayon color in Crayola’s…

Color Your World: This Is Not About Corn or Is It?

The color today is cornflower, a color I really like in my garden as I am drawn to blue, lavender and purple flowers and pots in my garden. Isn’t this flower delicate? I’m not sure what it is though, as usual. The common names for cornflower are bachelor’s button, bluebottle, boutonniere flower, and hurtsickle. Hurtsickle? Where does…

How Could There Possibly Be More Blue?

Just when you think you have seen every shade of blue, there is more blue! I like blue flowers in my garden and blue pots. So I thought we’d start off with pots of blue. I hope I have shown Blue Green, Pacific Blue and Cerulean for the Color Your World Crayola Challenge! And like the…

Color Your World In the Outer Spaces!

  Here we are at Pashley Gardens and Manor again! I guess you can tell it is one of my favorite private gardens in the UK! Here we have three maidens in the outer green spaces of the manor. There are lovely and diverse sculptures to be found throughout the garden! Visiting Pashley Gardens is…

Color Your World: And the Blues Have It!

Aquamarine, Turquoise Blue and Sky Blue! Where can one find all these colors at once? St Ives, Cornwall came to mind! Enjoy the beautiful weather, scenery and hospitality in Cornwall! Color your World  is a 4 month long daily blogging challenge event. Each day has a new color theme based on a crayon color in…