A Real Garden Party

I don't have time to separate my lights from my darks when I do laundry, let alone have a garden for my edibles and a separate one for my ornamentals. My garden is one big gumbo, everybody jump on it and let's have a party! No reason for any area of my garden to look too utilitarian. Mix it up!

I like to team things up according to size, like bright green lettuce with Dolce^® Licorice Heuchera. Or maybe I'll combine fat, sassy tomatoes with Colorblaze^® Dark Star Coleus, or asparagus with Spirit^® Violetta Cleome. Get the picture?

I also like to play with the color of the flower and the color of the vegetable, really emphasizing contrast. Like Luscious^® Lemonade Lantana with Bulls Blood Beets, or Superbells^{^®} Coral Sun Calibrachoa with Ruby Ball cabbage. If I used something with little contrast like the green, leafy foliage of carrots with the dainty Superbells^® Miss Lilac Calibrachoa, it would be like wearing a matching bra and panties. It looks really cute together but no one is really going to know!

And because okra and tomatillos really bring the ugly, why not team them up with a little Graceful Grasses^® Vertigo^® Pennisetum AND some Flambé^® Yellow Chrysocephalum. Who knows, your tomatillos may mature faster because they feel less self-conscious! And YOU can give them that gift.

Who has time to keep things separate when you can get them to look THIS good together? Now if I could only say the same about that white shirt I washed with those new jeans...