Perennials: Color Echoes V-Autumn Sing now of lusty fruits and flowers!, 1 by tabasco

tabasco wrote:
Yes, Perennial Planters, it's that time of the year of fiery foliage and lusty fruits and joyful flowers, so says Robert Blake in his poem...

http://quotations.about.com/od/poemlyrics/a/blakepoem20.htm

so we should be able to identify some interesting 'colorations' to 'trill our hearts and brighten our cheeks' and put down in our notebooks for next year's September garden scheme.

Right now, I'm especially interested in perennials planted with fruits and vegetables that carry through a color theme. Of course, I don't have any in my own garden, but only dream of it...anyone else, though? Here's the French Gardener's link to edible flowers which fascinated me

http://www.frenchgardening.com/aupotager.tmpl?SKU=3109799473...

and then her Potager essay that has lots of color schemed pics that sent my imagination into action. http://www.frenchgardening.com/aupotager.tmpl

I'm not sure I'm so joyful about Autumn being just around the corner, but we are in for some fabulous color echoes in the next few weeks, and I do look forward to those pics posted on this thread...in the meantime I'm going out to get some purpley kales for a start into the new season! So everyone's welcome to post away--and we look forward to lots of new ideas!

(I you like, check out our first four threads for some interesting 'Color Echo' ideas (a la the author Pam Harper) for next year's summer garden planning http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/536597/ Lots of good ideas here, I think!)

A container from Inniswood Metro Gardens, August 20.