Crimson & Cerulean & Pink

Cerulean (deep, cyan blue — the characteristic deep English summer sky — specifically the brilliant blue that appears between the most characteristically English summer clouds — the specific English cerulean that appears in the most idealised English pastoral landscapes and the most celebrated English garden paintings) and Pink (pale, delicate — the specific pale delicate pink of the Rosa damascena — the damask rose — the most historically important and the most immediately English-garden-associated rose variety — used in the most important Tudor gardens) create the most specifically English Tudor and the most botanically garden-traditional cool-warm pair. Against Crimson's passionate Tudor red rose warm, this creates the most specifically English Tudor garden palette.

The palette is the visual world of the English Tudor garden — the first specifically English garden tradition (the Tudor period — 1485-1603 CE — from Henry VII through Elizabeth I — the most immediate formative period of the distinctively English garden aesthetic, combining the most immediately English devotion to the rose with the most formally symmetrical and the most elaborately knot-garden-organized garden design tradition). The Tudor garden palette: the deep vivid crimson of the red Tudor rose (the characteristic deep, vivid crimson of the Rosa gallica var. officinalis — the Apothecary's Rose — the most historically important and the most symbolically charged rose in English botanical history — the specific crimson that is simultaneously the red rose of Lancaster and the heraldic rose of the Tudor dynasty); the deep cyan blue of the English summer sky (the specific deep, brilliant English summer blue that appears most characteristically in the most perfectly clear days of the English summer — the cerulean that appears in the most celebrated English topographical paintings and the most idealized English garden images); and the pale delicate pink of the damask rose (the pale, delicate, very sweetly fragrant pale pink of the Rosa damascena — the damask rose — the most historically important rose variety in the Tudor garden tradition — used for its most extensively sweet fragrance and its most characteristic pale pink flowers).