Our house was entirely brown and orange too. It was lovely. Orange, brown, gold and white wallpaper (more geometric than floral), a brown suite and big circular rugs in the same colour ways as the wallpaper.
As far as the garden is concerned, "Alyssum and Lobelia" as described is essential, and wallflowers planted in autumn. Rockeries, conifers and heathers, and at least one 'Rubra plena' peony (they're not 70s but earlier, but many were - and are - still there).
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Are Kanzan cherries from the 70s? Perhaps it's the 60s really... they were ubiquitous in front gardens, showering the pavement with bright pink petals.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Party 7s were a thing when I was at college (Late 80s / early 90s). I don't know how long they'd been around before that, having grown up in a Methodist household!
'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
Nothing to do with 70s gardening, but if you want to get a flavour of the time watch "Life on Mars" with John Simm and Philip Glenister. We definitely went down the conifer and heather route at one time.
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As far as the garden is concerned, "Alyssum and Lobelia" as described is essential, and wallflowers planted in autumn. Rockeries, conifers and heathers, and at least one 'Rubra plena' peony (they're not 70s but earlier, but many were - and are - still there).
We definitely went down the conifer and heather route at one time.