Hortica: Color Cyclopedia of Garden Flora and Exotic Plants Indoors: Color Cyclopedia of Garden Flora and Exotic Plants Indoors

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French Red. Use equal parts of Indian red and vermilion, and glaze with carmine or permanent crimson madder.

Crassula tetragona subs. lignescens Toelken : has erect, wiry, woody branches up to 800 mm tall, very short leaf sheaths and 0-1 pairs of sterile bracts on the peduncle. Distribution: Montagu to Grahamstown and also in Namaqualand. Urs Eggli "Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Monocotyledons" Springer Science & Business Media, 06 December 2012 Velvet Green. Mix three parts of burnt sienna, five parts of light chrome green and eight parts white lead. Stop gradually watering when the stalk dries out after blooming, in summer or else the bulbs may rot. Start watering when the stalk starts growing again in late winter. ) It can be planted undergrounds, with a thin soil layer on it, or just leave it “on” the ground, it will root anyway, and the chances of getting rot are smaller this way rather than planted undergrounds (although it grows slower). Protect from heat in summer. Light shade to full sun, keep bulb shaded. Cambridge Red. Vermilion, to which is added about one twentieth part of Prussian blue, gives a color called Cambridge red.Eggli, Urs “Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants, Crassulaceae Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants.” Springer, Berlin 2002 Raw Sienna. Siennas are valuable earth colors most useful for staining or tinting, but practically useless as body colors. The degree of transparency determines to some extent the quality. Cream. A good shade is obtained by mixing eight parts of white lead, two parts of French yellow ochre and a touch of Venetian red. French ochre and lead alone are often employed. Equal parts of raw sienna and orange chrome used to tint white gives a nice cream. There are many other methods of obtaining this tint. Mast Colored Paint. The following recipe gives good ​results. Mix twelve parts of genuine dry white lead with two parts of French ochre, two parts of gray barytes, and one part of genuine oxide of iron. Variegated form: The variegated form of Plectranthus forsteriSN|29692]]SN|29700]], which has the cultivar name of 'Marginatus' ( 'Variegatus') is a bushy variant with leaves nicely margined with cream. this variegated variety is the one normally grown. It has spires of pale mauve or white flowers in autumn.

Jonquil Yellow. Tint white lead with medium chrome yellow to which has been added a very little vermilion red. One of the favorite methods is to employ sixteen parts white lead, one part of indigo and two parts of light red, adding as much chrome yellow as may be desired. Another way of ​making jonquil yellow is by simply mixing with a little green about forty times the quantity of yellow. Choosing the correct web colors can be exhausting, but it is a great skill to have, especially for marketing purposes. Quaker Drab. This greenish gray shade is produced by mixing two parts each of yellow and green and five parts of white. Salmon Pink. Tint white lead with equal parts of orange chrome and vermilion. If zinc white is used instead of lead the color will be found brighter.Gamboge. This is an artist's color. It is a gum resin, is somewhat fugitive, and is useless for the purpose of the house painter.