show your colours - light green

I looked through my stash, but light green was nowhere to be found. lime green - yes, light sage green - ok, but not a real light green! so off to the plants it is. though I am not sure if this doesn't fall into the lime green category as well? moss on a pot outside in the garden - in the sunshine the red stems give a nice contrast to the green tops....

this is a golden hops, humulus lupulus aurea - a real romper that behaves badly in my garden all the time. it produces runners of 6 or 7 metres without problem and turns up in the oddest places, far from its roots and usually in the middle of some other plant! but it does have nice leaves and looks very friendly and optimistic, so I usually give it a bit of freedom, where it doesn't make too much of a mess! every autumn I intend to pick the leaves for dyeing (I read that it produces shades of gold or brown!) - and every time they die off too quickly and I miss the chance.....

last in the row of light greens - is a very nice plant, the lily-of-the-valley. as pretty as it looks - it has bad manners and behaves the same as the hop! ok, maybe the runners aren't quite as long, but it still escapes the flower beds and ends up somewhere else. I could use it for dyeing as well, but I prefer to pick the flowers, because they last well in the vase and give the most heavenly scent!