Full sun is best. Red orach mingles well with hot colors brilliant orange-red Oriental poppies, crimson fernleaf peonies, scarlet Maltese cross and with pale colors and white. It frames the shimmering pale yellow blossoms of the old-fashioned bearded iris Flavescens . A friend and I salvaged a small start of this iris from a group of luminescent clumps that grew out in the middle of nowhere, miles from civilization, on the rolling high plains at the Wyoming-Nebraska border, survivors of a vanished homestead. Bearded iris snobs disdain its dog-ear shape and small flowers, but I am honored to have it grace my garden.
Red orach is just the right companion.
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