Plum September - Shades of red & purple in the balcony garden
Thursday, September 17, 2009 
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Originally I was going to publish this post without any words, but this morning I discovered something about my fall garden colour choices so thought I'd share it.
I didn't consider fashion trends when choosing my fall garden palette -- I just picked my favourite hues. But this morning I checked the Pantone Fall 2009 palette and thought the red ("American Beauty" Pantone 19-1759) and purple ("Purple Heart" Pantone 18-3520) seemed close to the shades of my pansies and violas. (At least they appeared that way on my computer monitor.)
You can download the Pantone Fashion Color Report Fall 2009 (PDF) from the Pantone site. If you're still in the planning stages or having trouble choosing plants at the garden centre, the guide might help you design a colour scheme, arrange foliage and flowers, and choose containers to blend into the background or act as focal points.
But I'm not encouraging anyone to be a slave to fashion. Most important: grow what you love. And can eat, too, whenever possible.
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Wel, you know how I feel about this set of photos. They look even more beautiful here, on your site.
We're all slaves to trends, even when we're not trying. We're inundated with what's in style at every turn and we think we're choosing colors that we independently like, but subconsciously we're reacting to all the visual cues that inundate us.
How's that for a 1984ish analysis of flower colors? :-P
Hi Fern. Oh dear, I thought I was more resistant to marketing tactics but I think you are right.
Lucy, thank you for sharing this beauty with me. Have I told you how much your view of the world is beginning to influence my own -- and that kind of influence I'm happy to be open to.