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Come on, those with colour sense. What would look good planted with lavender in an old car tyre?

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Bubble99 · 16/05/2008 21:23

I've got three of them lined up (the car tyres) and I want to fill them with soil/compost and plant flowers in them.

I've got lavender and I was thinking of some of those white daises with the yellow centres, not sure what they're called.

Any ideas for some (non-garish) combinations with lavender?

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Bubble99 · 16/05/2008 21:55

OK. As I am a colour combination no-hoper - tell me which colours go together.

What colour(s), if any, would you put with mauve/purple lavender.

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PeaGreene · 16/05/2008 22:03

Almost anything. It's a really subtle grey-ish shade in lavender so it's really easy to match.

Yellow goes with blue nicely, will look very sunny and bright. Especially with a bit of white.

You could do acid green foliage and there's a really common grass I'm racking my brains to tell you [old age emoticon]

Pinks and purples will look just fine and very tasteful.

Even bright orange would be good.

Black grasses? with little pink flowers poking through? Very funky.

Bright red? That's the only thing I'm less sure about but it's such a subtle bluey grey in lavender no one would be like this: if you did.

Can't go wrong. Bit of ivy trailing over the side would be nice.

You could do lavender in the middle with smaller plants around the outside.

Or lavender with really dramatic big things at the back like foxgloves or gladioli. Depends on how much space you have.

And if you don't like it, you can dig them out and try something else next year.

World's your oyster. I'd just browse around the garden centre and get a few of whatever takes your fancy

BoysAreLikeDogs · 16/05/2008 22:08

Scabious, the tall variety, perennial same as lavender so low maintenance.

Alliums, for strucure as well as colour.

Cranesbill is lovely, another perennial.

And what about borage for your Pimms ??

BoysAreLikeDogs · 16/05/2008 22:09

Obv I am leaning towards colours from the same palette, blue/purple/mauve/lilac.

Sorry not to have mentioned that [duh]

Bubble99 · 16/05/2008 22:13

Thanks, PeaGreene and all.

I thought the yellow and white daisies would work. I think I must have some self esteem ishoos? I can't trust my own judgement with anything to do with style/colours etc and assume that I or it must look daft.

But that's a whole other thread.

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Bubble99 · 16/05/2008 22:14

I'll post some pics when it's done.

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PeaGreene · 16/05/2008 22:16

Do. My garden's crap since I moved into a new house so I'm living vicariously through other people's.

BoysAreLikeDogs · 16/05/2008 22:18

My garden's crap because

a The whole back garden is designed around the needs of DCs/mindees

b My teeny tiny front garden is taken up with fruit trees (espaliered apples and pear trees oooh get me) and gooseberry bushes

Elephantsbreath · 16/05/2008 22:27

are the car tyres standing up or lying down. Why don't you rope one up and sling it over a tree for a funky swing for a dc?

else trailing nasturtium is my fave idea.

MargaretMountford · 16/05/2008 23:39

dh planted lots of stuff in our old bath - see on profile - lots of colours but it works..am inheriting an old butler sink soon which we will fill too

PeaGreene · 17/05/2008 00:23

Margaret I think you've got the same as our old taps

We had the whole bath and taps taken out, left it ion the drive whilst we decided what to do with it.

Got stolen.

Not suggesting you've got our bath, I just loved those taps.

Nice planting too, bet it's looking better by the day too.

MargaretMountford · 17/05/2008 08:38

how mean for someone to steal your bath ! the taps are cute, I was going to try to get similar ones to replace them if we were sticking with old bath (Globe taps from tapstore) but we decided the whole bath, though pretty was way too smalll for practical and comfy bathing. The plants have all grown a lot in the past few weeks too !

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