The blues shine amid a rainbow of colour

摘要

This was the day that a rainbow brightened 2012's summer gloom. Every colour was represented at Tewkesbury. Vibrant red and orange were contributed by several Andean cacti. Yellow was provided by Goode-nia, a mainly Australian genus of annuals and perennials, a number of them suitably dwarf. Pink was represented by Ourisia x bitternensis (though this can also be red, orange, yellow or creamy-white) and a plant from much closer to home, Ken Aslet s Dorset find, Anagallis tenella 'Studland', which unsurprisingly had found the damp weather much to its liking, since it does well if the pot is kept on capillary matting so that it never dries out.