I once went to buy paint at a professional pain supplier who claimed to be able to match paint to any sample you could bring and I wanted a dramatic colour to paint the outside walls of my house. I took along willow herb and foxglove and another similar that I cannot remember, they cannot mix paint to match these beautiful colours of nature...
Hello Crafty Green Poet. The countryside is full of flowering willow herb at present and it is so pretty I could easily have it as a garden plant. Then there are these individual urban ones. Along with buddleia they really stand out. The sky is a bonus in the photo but I do wish a bit that we could have a few blue skies too before autumn kicks in.
Hello Voyage of the Eye. Paint suppliers are very rash to make such claims. I wanted to paint a wall inside my house buttercup yellow and the couldn't manage that either. Your house would have looked very dramatic willow herb / foxglove colour. Did you manage anything approaching it?
Hi Lucy, it had been something like willoherb but the pigments faded very quickly and the surface weathered so I wanted a fresh update.
https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/articles/colours-past
It started very much like the violet in the second to last colour section bottom row but ended up with my partner choosing close to 06 a Teal 1950s teal blue! Now it needs painting again and I am feeling too old to climb two stories high and when will we have two dry dats in a row to even start?
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Beautiful! I love the colour of the willowherb against the grey sky and the contrast between the flower and the barbed wire
U agree with Crafty Green Poet. There is great contrast and appeal in the composition, and this one I WOULD hang in the living room. =)
Willow herb! What happened to summer?
I once went to buy paint at a professional pain supplier who claimed to be able to match paint to any sample you could bring and I wanted a dramatic colour to paint the outside walls of my house. I took along willow herb and foxglove and another similar that I cannot remember, they cannot mix paint to match these beautiful colours of nature...
Hello Crafty Green Poet. The countryside is full of flowering willow herb at present and it is so pretty I could easily have it as a garden plant. Then there are these individual urban ones. Along with buddleia they really stand out. The sky is a bonus in the photo but I do wish a bit that we could have a few blue skies too before autumn kicks in.
Hello Susan. You really do need a big house for all these photos!
Hello Voyage of the Eye. Paint suppliers are very rash to make such claims. I wanted to paint a wall inside my house buttercup yellow and the couldn't manage that either.
Your house would have looked very dramatic willow herb / foxglove colour. Did you manage anything approaching it?
Hi Lucy, it had been something like willoherb but the pigments faded very quickly and the surface weathered so I wanted a fresh update.
https://www.dulux.co.uk/en/articles/colours-past
It started very much like the violet in the second to last colour section bottom row but ended up with my partner choosing close to 06 a Teal 1950s teal blue! Now it needs painting again and I am feeling too old to climb two stories high and when will we have two dry dats in a row to even start?
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