"The soul speaks in image." Carl Jung
"Mere colour, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways." Oscar Wilde
Colour impacts ours lives.
Whether we know it or not we absorb it, seemingly subconsciously , our very inner most selves mulling it over, associating it with various objects then transforming it into an image.
Whether that image stays inside us or is put out there, if we know how, in one artistic form or another - is entirely up to us.
Often it can be the other way around - we see an image of think of an object & immediately associate a colour with it... & so it goes on.
No wonder colour & imagery has such a great impact on our lives. A dreary Sunday down under found me peering around the garden for something to focus on - surely I could find some colour there... Of course I did find something ; a small & persistent Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus) obviously transported here via a pot from my last garden winding through, around, under & over a row of stacked unused terracotta pots.
Bright & perpetually sunny, thankfully oblivious to the fact that everything else in the garden has died off in anticipation of winters approach!
So although I can't provide the answer to Mallorys' wish of a plant with two different types of flowers on it - I can suggest Nasturtiums that often have multiple, distinctly different colourways all on the one plant.
(Will have to work on the Raul & his steaming shirtless body for you too Mallory.....)
(Will have to work on the Raul & his steaming shirtless body for you too Mallory.....)
