This is not a blog. I repeat: this is not a blog.  It is merely a taste of blogs to come this year. And they will be about COLOUR!  Or color (if you prefer it without extraneous British/Canadian vowels).

Yes, I thought it might be time for The Paintbox Garden to adhere to its stated theme. So each month of 2016 will be devoted to a different hue, beginning with JANUARY, which will be white as the driven (or walking) snow. White as in wonderland, appropriate to the season. White as an even paler shade of pale. And of course, white as in perfume – coming up soon.

FEBRUARY will be red, as in better — than dead, paint the town —, roses are —,  and UB-40s favourite beverage.  And the longest, boldest wave length in Isaac Newton’s spectral light arsenal. Plus, of course, swamp hibiscus.

MARCH will be green (yes, I know, hackneyed Irish trope for St. Paddy’s). But it is the only really important colour in the garden paintbox, as all chlorophyll-lovers know.  Nevertheless, as Kermit is fond of saying, it ain’t easy being green.  My March blogs will help dispel that notion.

But being Kermit-green is definitely easier than being chartreuse, which is half-green and half-yellow. I will squeeze some limes… and chartreuses…into my March blogs as well.

Because it’s the cruellest month, as T.S. Eliot reminded us, APRIL will be blue. Actually, I chose blue for April because of all those lovely little azure bulbs that spring up from the snow. But there will be azure blues….

….and lighter sky-blues for the entire gardening season, too.

MAY will be pink, as in the darling buds. Think crabapples, weigelas, columbines, peonies, and phloxes and hydrangeas for later in the season. There will be lusty pinks…

…and delicate, light pinks.

I’ll skip magenta because I wrote a love letter to that neon hue in 2014.

JUNE will be purple. Riots often break out about what purple means (for the record it comes from the Greek word porphura, for little murex sea snails that bleed that dark crimson ‘purple’ dye). So let me say June will be about lilac-purple..

.. through lavender-purple…

… into violet-purple…

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… and finally rich, royal, Seagram’s Bag, Tyrian purple.

JULY will be all sunshine: lots of yellow…

… and gold.

AUGUST will be black(ish). And hopefully some good thunderstorms!

SEPTEMBER will be every lovely shade of brown, as in grasses and seedheads.

OCTOBER will be jack-o-lanternly, clockworkly-orange.

And I’ll throw in peach (even though it likes to party with pink, too)…

…and apricot (even though it sometimes hangs out with the gold crowd)…

… and salmon for a well-rounded fruit & fish diet.

NOVEMBER will be wine or burgundy, because who doesn’t fancy a little vino in dreary November.

DECEMBER will be silver, as in bells, hi-ho, and Long John.

And that’s a promise!