Garden Colour Design
The color wheel is a gardener s best friend when it comes to creating a pleasing garden palette.
Garden colour design. With busy lives many of us view our gardens less during the day and more often during twilight hours. If you will be using your garden often after dark be sure to include a healthy dose of white flowers and silver foliage. View all start slideshow.
If you d like to learn more about design then attend one of rachel s free online garden design classes. In an informal cottage garden one expects to find a colourful mix of herbs vegetables and perennials with little consideration for colour combinations while colour choice plays an important role in a country style garden where massed plantings of shrubs perennials and annuals are used for a bold effect. A water wise hillside in bloom design ideas for a mediterranean front yard full sun xeriscape for fall in san luis obispo.
If you choose a shade you like on the colour wheel you ll find harmonious colours on either side of it. Meet the color wheel. White glows when you view the garden early in the morning during the evening and at night.
If you can t get to sissinghurst the silver garden at longwood gardens pennsylvania by isabelle greene which uses a palette of arid and succulent plants is outstanding. Look through garden photos in different colours and styles and when you find a garden design that inspires you save it to an ideabook or contact the pro who made it happen to. The fabulous herry lawford jardin majorelle chelsea flower show garden col tasha.
Colour is just the icing on the well designed cake. Create a bold dramatic landscape with these tips for designing with colorful flowers and foliage. Pink flowers can add a bold or a delicate touch to the garden.
Create a wall of large white blooms with incrediball smooth hydrangea or add a light and airy touch with diamond frost euphorbia. February 19 2016 skip gallery slides. A full color wheel resembles a rainbow with red and orange next to yellow followed by green blue purple and violet.