Bring Back Yellow

Teddahlia · 2025-01-25T19:51:40+00:00

Cut flower breeding is very , very different from show flower breeding. Show flower breeders are color blind for the most part and just see FORM. Cut flowe...

Juliarugula

calico20hill Krista both of your house color schemes sound so awesome! Our house is a white Cape Cod, and the color seems very suited to it. Our interiors though are very green-centric. Green and yellow are my two favorite colors.

Krista

calico20hill Juliarugula

Noni, I love your house colors! I saw them in one of your photos back when we were trying to come up with our own house colors and it made my day to see someone else with beautiful, vibrant exterior color choices!

Julia, greens are my favorite interior colors too! Seattle was originally painted a strange fleshy-yellow on the inside (well tbh, the outside too) and so I’ve kind of steered clear of yellows until now. Maybe it’s time to revisit! We are on the same green page though — we loved our rich, deep green kitchen, sage’y green bath, and sea-foam’ish green hallway (that I always wondered whether it looked like the bottom of a swimming pool to our guests)! All of which we’ve repainted to “spinach [edited] ~~green~~ white” for renters. We couldn’t bare to go completely neutral but toned it down so as not to offend. 😅

Flowernut

Justafewdahlias One of my friends “only likes white flowers” because anything too bright or bold will “clash with the decor” of the all white living/dining room.

I have a neighbor that told me white was her favorite color. Last year I gave her tubers to grow and I made sure she received her white, but I also gave her some of my favorites. At the end of the season, while helping her dig up her tubers, I asked her what dahlia was her favorite. She surprised me by saying it was Bubbling Over. She is dedicating more garden space to dahlias for this coming year.👏

Justafewdahlias

Flowernut It is so true! Once you grow things for yourself your favorites may change! I’m surprised someone claimed white as a favorite color! Also Hooray for being a successful dahlia pusher 😉 !! My goal is to get everyone addicted to gardening so I have more sources to trade cuttings; starts and plants with 😂

There is someone in my neighborhood with a HUGE unused greenhouse. My goal is to meet them, get them addicted to gardening and snag an invitation to use that greenhouse “ oh you like these sugar snap peas, of course I would be happy to give you some plants! ….you know we could have them even longer to harvest if we stuck a couple pots in this greenhouse of yours” 😂😂😂 joking…kinda…😅 I’m not really thatttt crazy but seeing the unused greenhouse a girl can dream right!?

But speaking on “getting people onto yellow” I think if people were gifted or given a yellow dahlia tuber, (if there is some great big ‘bring yellow back’ campaigning) they might realize yellow is awesome or yellow is good/ or yellow isn’t as bad as it is claimed to be in the media haha! If yellow was included in the “free tubers” or if every “mystery tuber” pack included a great yellow plant to grow it might slowly tip the scale back to yellow

blown_dry

Juliarugula It holds true for design in general. America is drab. Compare an IKEA store to Restoration Hardware. Bright colors are pretty taboo here - it goes all the way back to the pilgrims.

Not so! It's just a design moment. The 1970s and 1980s were fantastically colorful in the US. The 1940's were the era of Technicolor. Even full-on neon colors were 'in' for a bit there in the 80s. I have a house built in the 1910s and that was the financial peak of my area for better or worse so we have lots of surviving Victorian mansions and mini-mansions. The Victorians loved saturated color and fantastic patterns. Their houses were covered with it, inside and out. People who sell and influence design have to swap things out in order to stay relevant and sell people new things so colorful decades literally must be followed by some drab ones. I can't wait for these to leave. I am so tired of 50 shades of gray. But on the up-side, I am not getting in people's way of attaining their blush unicorns.

blown_dry

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The garden shed

The garage

KitCMC

blown_dry snail shell planter!! Love it!

blown_dry

Another shot of the garden shed. I figured each building was an opportunity to pick a new color scheme. That's how that works right? These buildings were white, all-paint-weathered-away and off-white when I got them. The main house (light yellow) is going to be turquoise.

calico20hill

I love your wild looking gardens!

Flowernut

Justafewdahlias There is someone in my neighborhood with a HUGE unused greenhouse. My goal is to meet them, get them addicted to gardening and snag an invitation to use that greenhouse “ oh you like these sugar snap peas, of course I would be happy to give you some plants! ….you know we could have them even longer to harvest if we stuck a couple pots in this greenhouse of yours” 😂😂😂 joking…kinda…😅 I’m not really thatttt crazy but seeing the unused greenhouse a girl can dream right!?

I suggest taking a bouquet of dahlias and letting them know you will share tubers with them if they are interested in growing their own. Let them know they can start the tubers early in their greenhouse.😉

calico20hill

If I were still selling at market I think I would make a big demo bouquet each week that includes yellow. A favorite look would be yellow white and blue or purple...easily reminding one of summer days at a lake, or in the mountains. When I made up arrangements I nearly always had a theme in mind at least for color and that theme came from nature. So many different looks you could get...the yellow sun rising over the misty purple hills at sunrise, Sunshine with with puffy white clouds and a blue sky, Sunshine through a forest lighting up mosses and evergreens, Sunshine on an orchard full of ripening fruit...I guess I am just a painter at heart and flowers are what I paint with....

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