How to use colour in your garden to influence your mood
When there’s a garden, there’s colour and when there’s colour, there’s personality. Master the art of making colourful plant combinations for a garden that reflects you.
Colourful moods
Certain colours evoke a certain atmosphere and add “feeling” to a garden. Working with colours through your garden allows you to determine what mood you want to create for your green space. Here are some tips on what ambience certain colour combinations create…
Cool and calming: Try a combination of soothing blues and white flowers for a peaceful and contemplative space.
Soft and romantic: Pink and mauves add a lovely romantic and harmonious note to the garden.
Warm and striking: Experiment with splashes of exuberant reds, oranges and yellows for a bold and striking garden.
Designing with colour
PlantsPlus advises:
- Winter and spring flowering annuals give gardens a touch of colour on dreary days. They are also great for filling in gaps in gardens left when perennials die down.
- In garden beds, colourful annuals work best planted in big, bold groups.
- Annuals are also a wonderful complement to late winter and early spring flowering bulbs.
- Grow annuals in pots at the front of your home for an inviting entrance or dot them around the garden to brighten up dull areas
- Autumn annuals provide vibrant colour from mid-autumn right through to spring. Cooler weather produce some of the most flamboyant flowers including pansies, primulas, polyanthus, cineraria and violas.
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