mauve-blue

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mauve-blue - of blue tinged with mauve

chromatic - being or having or characterized by hue

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The flowers came when life got easier - take lavender, now a traditional favourite in what we regard as the quintessential cottage garden, the mauve-blue flowers rising in a summery haze above soft grey foliage.

Why purple reigns

I am nearly always drawn by scent and restrained charm - like the mauve-blue Heathcliff - but year after year, it is seeds of Matucana that I say I must sow.

PEAS AND LOVE; Sweet peas add great colour and unmatched scent to any garden but it is the oldest variety - introduced from Sicily in the 18th century - that creates its own little corner of heaven at Glebe Cottage

For containers and flower beds or borders, my favourite plants are Ageratum (fluffy mauve-blue flowers on short stems), Antirrhinums (snap-dragons for children - dead head for the best performance), Begonia semperflorens (summer long masses of red, white and pink flowers), Cleome (the spider flower to give height to a display), Dianthus (choose a good one to add scent to the display), Gaillardia (for those really hot, sunny patios), Bedding Pelargoniums (sold as Geraniums - superb flower colours), Lobelia (huge variety of flower colours to act as a background to other bolder plants, Bedding Nemesia (annuals that flower their heads off), Nicotiana (scented flowers in their thousands).

Give your garden that summer wow factor

PARROT Like parrots, 'Blue Parrot' (at Plant bulbs TULIP these tulips come left) has mauve-blue shoulder to in brilliant hues flowers on 18-inch shoulder in a 16- (some are striped stems.