Purple is such a royal color, and looks fantastic with yellows! Your flowers and greenery are so healthy and vibrant. Love the rocks, too!
Your gardens are inspiration Nell - always enjoy the pictures. Thanks!!

Complementary colors. They're opposites on the color wheel. For other compatible colors, you can toss in some pinks, like the Laura Bush petunias I see in one picture.

I really have to get some gladiolas this fall. My garden is lacking vertical elements that those flower spikes give yours. I love that dark purple you got from the box store bag.

Your glads look so much better than mine! Love the rich color of yours and they don't look nearly as demented at that height. Mine are about 6 feet tall this year.

Nell your beds look wonderful. Seeing how lovely your glads are really drive home the concept that I need to move mine to some other spot. They look absolutely abused and neglected compared to yours. The yellows are such a bright cheery bunch and I notice your lilies are popping out too! Very pretty!! By the way, what do you have your wisteria growing on?
LeSan

Oh, those purple gladiolas are so stunning. I love all the room you have and I love the blackeyed susan bed.

Purples and yellows are my favorite summer colors. My Violetta glad is pale in comparison to yours.

Thanks, everybody for the kind words.

Le San, this Wisteria grows on its own stems, straight up out of a mass of boxwood. I just try to keep wisteria from ever reaching a tree and taking a hold.
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Some of my methods are not exactly conventional.

Nell