Y is for Yellow

After 12 years of wearing school uniforms, I swore off the dreaded colors green and yellow. In my entire closet I think there are two t-shirts that are yellow (bought only because of the cute pictures printed on them) and one old green sweatshirt leftover from my son's days on high school sports. After banishing those colors from my life, it's funny that I became a gardener. After all, gardeners are all about green. And, for all my rantings about green and yellow, a absolutely love yellow flowers.

I suppose the first yellow flower I fell in love with was a hedge of roses in a yard in my hometown. My dad even went to the neighbors to get a cutting and attempt to grow our own yellow roses but they didn't quite take. Then in college I learned that if you pick daffodil buds from the gardens around campus and take them back to your dorm room they will open and last for several days. Many yellow flowers have call my gardens home: daffodils, forsythia, irises, potentilla, nasturtiums, begonias, dahlias, zinnias, marigolds, sunflowers. Because, despite what I feel about wearing yellow, it really POPS in the garden. For some reason, I love yellow in the garden.

What color do you like in your garden?