Crimson & Purple & Lavender

Purple (rich, medium — the deep, richly saturated medium purple of the Provence lavender field at its most abundant peak bloom — the characteristic rich purple that makes the most famous agricultural landscape in France and the most immediately internationally recognizable botanical color in French rural culture) and Lavender (pale, medium — the specific pale, atmospheric, slightly hazy medium purple of the lavender field seen from a greater distance — or of the early morning light over the lavender plateau — when the most characteristic pale lavender color pervades the most extensive horizon of the most famous lavender landscape in the world) create the most specifically Provençal and the most immediately botanically French analogous cool pair. Against Crimson's passionate poppy warm, this creates the most specifically Provence lavender harvest palette.

The palette is the visual world of Provence at lavender harvest — the most immediately internationally famous and the most consistently photographed botanical landscape in France (the Provence lavender fields — primarily on the plateau of Valensole — the most extensively planted lavender cultivation area in France — and in the Sault and Luberon regions — together forming the most comprehensively lavender-dominated agricultural landscape in Europe — blooming in the most intensely saturated and the most immediately internationally beautiful rich purple from approximately late June through early August — the specific combination of the most richly purple lavender fields and the most brilliantly clear Provence summer sky creating the most immediately photographed and the most consistently reproduced French agricultural landscape in the world). The Provence harvest palette: the deep vivid crimson of the Provence crimson poppy (the characteristic vivid crimson of the common red poppy — Papaver rhoeas — the most immediately beautiful and the most freely seeding annual that grows throughout the most typical Provence agricultural landscape — appearing as the most vivid crimson flower spots against the most richly purple lavender backdrop and the most brilliantly golden wheat field before the harvest); the rich medium purple of the Provence lavender field (the specific rich, deeply saturated medium purple of the Lavandula angustifolia or — more commonly at the most commercial Valensole scale — Lavandula × intermedia — the lavandin hybrid — at the most intensive mid-July peak bloom); and the pale medium lavender of the atmospheric Provence horizon (the specific pale, atmospherically hazy medium purple that the most extensive lavender landscape takes on at the most characteristic summer morning light — when the most diffuse early morning sun creates the most atmospheric and the most romantically impressionistic lavender landscape photograph).