*ahem* Hey, Stuart... I think you forgot a little something in your post. Aren't you going to share what YOUR garden colours say about YOU??!

OOH, I can post comments here again! I couldn't post to your blog for over a week and I have no idea why. I'm going to go back through the old posts tonight because I had a few questions and comments... :)

The bluebonnet is our state flower and I guess I took my cue from that...I love blue flowers. Bearded irises fed that passion for awhile.

Even I get the blues from too much blue. To counter the effect, I'm fond of apricot/buff/gold flowers. They don't work as well under a brilliant Texas sun as brighter colors.

Except for choosing among bearded irises and roses, I don't choose plants primarily for the color of their flowers--so it's a riot out there. I'm primarily interested in scent, then in survivability.

So much for color coordination. No my purse and shoes don't match either.

That's really interesting...even before I found out I was expecting a girl, I noticed I was putting in more pink flowers this summer. Maybe I was feeling the "nurture" aspect of the color. This could be like a test of our subconcious desires???

Two years ago, when we were renting a house, I tended toward orange and yellow...very much going for "warmth" and "cheerful" since it was a drab grey house.

Great post. I've been deliberately trying to plant more blues and purples in my garden, but I never thought of the meaning behind it. Interesting!

So... what colors do you have in your garden?

Wow!! I didn't think you would turn this question back on me. I feel like I'm under the spotlight now - in a YELLOW kind of way.

It really depends on which garden. The garden rooms that Deb has constructed are mainly pink's and mauves. The front garden is decidely purples and oranges - love orange at the moment (it could be the new black!)

Another garden is grey's, green's and whites offset with some really bold red's.

Each garden has its own mood and I think it mainly comes from the foliage and flower colours that dominate.

Hmm... I have almost all of the colours above except for pink and white. I guess that means I'm not soft, sweet, or pure--YIKES! lol.

Here's something interesting, though. At my old house, with my ex-husband, I couldn't get enough blue and silver. Here in the new house, with a fresh start and a new boyfriend who I adore, I have discovered the joy of gardening in reds and oranges. And I even have mixed in yellows, which is a color I previously professed to hate.

Maybe there IS something to this...

Kim, it would be interesting to note whether it applies for blog names as well?