{"id":687,"date":"2009-06-11T16:34:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T23:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.remarc.com\/craig\/?p=687"},"modified":"2009-06-13T08:11:25","modified_gmt":"2009-06-13T15:11:25","slug":"radioactive-waste-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Radioactive waste in the garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/nuke_waste.gif\" alt=\"radioactive wastesign\" align=\"right\" \/>No, I&#8217;m not talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1987\/11\/16\/us\/converted-radioactive-waste-used-to-fertilize-in-oklahoma.html\">that little kerfuffle with Kerr-McGee<\/a> back in the &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s areason that radioactive waste signs are purple and yellow.  Purple and yellow are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hort.cornell.edu\/gardening\/homegardening\/scene638f.html\">complementary colors<\/a> &#8212; colors on opposite sides of the color wheel &#8212; like red and green or orange and blue.<\/p>\n<p>They compete for the attention of the eye, and so accentuate each other when located close together.\u00c2\u00a0 On radioactive waste signs, they screem for attention.<\/p>\n<p>If I were a better designer, I&#8217;d take advantage of that.  But I do notice when it  occurs by happenstance.<\/p>\n<p>Euphorbia and allium&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/euphorbyel_allium_purx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/euphorbyel_allium_purx500.jpg\" alt=\"purple and yellow and more\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Purple (columbine) and orange (coral bells) have similar effect, though they aren&#8217;t exactly opposites on the color wheel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/columbine_heucherax1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/columbine_heucherax500.jpg\" alt=\"purple and yellow and more\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tradescantia with its own purple flowers and some columbine nearby &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/trad_columbinex1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/trad_columbinex500.jpg\" alt=\"purple and yellow and more\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More purples that I should team up with some yellows.  Geranium &#8230; [Update:  That&#8217;s Geranium renardii &#8220;N\u00c3\u00a4tn\u00c3\u00a4va&#8221;, judging by pix from  <a href=\"http:\/\/kenschill.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/varigerat-och-batt-och-en-spand-vantan.html\">Ken in Sweden<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/purple_geranium_mugshotx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/purple_geranium_mugshotx500.jpg\" alt=\"purple and yellow and more\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Closer &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/purple_geranium_mugshotcux1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/purple_geranium_mugshotcux500.jpg\" alt=\"purple and yellow and more\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chives and cow parsnip.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"images\/chives_cow_parsnipx1200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/chives_cow_parsnipx500.jpg\" alt=\"purple and yellow and more\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about that little kerfuffle with Kerr-McGee back in the &#8217;80s. There&#8217;s areason that radioactive waste signs are purple and yellow. Purple and yellow are complementary colors &#8212; colors on opposite sides of the color wheel &#8212; like red and green or orange and blue. They compete for the attention of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/?p=687\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Radioactive waste in the garden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bummers","category-perennials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ellishollow.remarc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}