A Garden for Morticia Adams

Re: A Garden for Morticia Adams


Hmmm, I get what you're thinking Osso, but I don't think I hit it with the above colors. I'll have to search around when I'm a little more awake.

I like both of those tulips but want stuff inbetween them, including an intermediate tulip, hard to do, re timing.



Okay, okay, I give up, pick one. They don't go together.




Pardon me if I'm obnoxious, this is how my bus/ptner and I talk or talked (we split, but amicably).

I like the plain tulips better

Does that remind you of Morticia Adams, CJ? I like those tulips too, but GW is going for sort of ghoulish but pretty at the same time (I surmise).

I still like at least one of the varieties of tulips being multicolored... just for a bit of life.

still not seeing any coloured flowers for Morticia. either purple-black or white - nothing mixed. It's just not Morticia.

Depends on how serious the client is on that sort of look.

Dracula's not doing any kind of tulip. He's Goth and Transylvanian. Tulips are way too chipper for him.

I honestly do not know much about gardening, but I can relate to Morticia.

How about Cala Lilies? Aren't they the flowers that you typically see when a cartoon character dies? They lie down holding a cala lily. And the plain white would work nicely.



Depends of course if it is a flower that grows well in the area.

Re: A Garden for Morticia Adams


At the top of this page is a different combination from what I posted on page 1. I was just playing with adding more green and maybe a softer coral. These tulips are the original idea.

I love Calla lilies, but they are a spring annual bulb here because they can't make through our winters. They don't bloom until mid-July. I use them in patio pots and overwinter them in shelters.

The person wants what he calls a "garden of mystery", plants that we all know but rarely see in certain colors. When I asked him for examples he mentioned really dark maroons, purples and oranges. He also mentioned the Vampire Lestat at some point, and thus I thought of my examples, but there really is a difference. He was thinking a more elegant, hip vampire.
I also prefer masses of the same color offset by different textures, but he wants something I perhaps should have described as Venetian Carnivale.

For some reason I like the original combo better... more similar proportions of dark and light colors, perhaps.





I thought of mentioning daylilies, given you can find purple, maroon, and orange ones from some of the suppliers - to have blooming at different times than the tulips - but not sure the foliage would work with whatever else you're planting.

Did somebody say Venetian Carnevale?

Lots of blacks & whites and blood reds.

Forget the pale colors...go for jewel tones and drama.

I don't know the first thing about flowers but no garden of Morticias' would be complete without a zombie or two.



Toscano

That probably would scare the neighborhood too much, sublime.

How about a Malvaceae - they come in different shapes and colors,
even deep purple.

How about roses? Thorns and all that. The schwartze madonna suggests itself--I have one in my garden. The dried flowers are red-black.

(Tried to post a photo, but it's no go...)

Actually, much of the garden is already in place, it's the spring bulb thing we are in the process of planning. He didn't want happy "Easter colors". He's starting to lean to all red Darwin tulips (literally about 800 of them), which would be fine with me and look nice against the solid grey stone of the house.

And the winner is:




I'm going to add a few fringe lipstick reds so it stands out better against the grey stone of the house. I love the name of this combination "Jesters and Kings". I found it at this site www.colorblends.com. They have a few interesting combos.

Good combo, nice website...