Beautiful Color Schemes
These days, more and more gardeners are being driven by colors rather than plant types. They wish to achieve a certain color scheme for their gardens, and this dictates their choice of plants. Flowers are the plants of choice for these gardeners, and their blooms are capable of producing a radiant effect and an explosion of tones and hues that would give life to any garden.
But dealing with colors is always a delicate matter. Deal with colors carelessly and you might just end up with a garden that is riddled with discord. If you want to achieve maximum effects for your garden, you need to plan the colors you want to attain beforehand. Below, you could find seven superb tips on how to deal with colors for your garden properly. Try to study them well and you’ll be able to come up with a garden that is bursting with the most pleasant color scheme possible.
* When planning your garden, try to picture it as a painting. This would require you to pay close attention to the depth or softness of the colors you want to use. Also, you’d have to determine which among the colors you have chosen would dominate your imagined palette, and which colors would complement the same. You would need some bridging colors, some enhancing colors, and some complementary colors that won’t take anything away from the primary colors you have in mind.
* Sometimes, the location of the garden and the existing landscape also determines our choice of colors, and consequently, our choice of flowers. Shaded areas, for example, would benefit greatly from a flowerbed of annuals, since these types of flowers produce lighter colors like pink, white and blue. Surely, those darker areas would improve with the addition of such colors.
* The surroundings of the garden should also help you determine your choice of colors. Dark blue flowers, for example, would just lose their focus when placed in the backdrop of a darkly painted wall. Bright red flowers would get lost when presented in the backdrop of a similarly colored facade. Contrast is the key. If you want your flowers, and the color scheme of your garden, to stand out, you would need to choose colors that do not blend with their surroundings.
* Repetition of color schemes can unify the different colors in a garden. Alternating rows of magentas, for example, would give a sense of unison for the other colors in your garden. This is usually considered as the shortcut approach in planning your colors, and is quite perfect for novice gardeners who wish to dabble with hues and tones.
* Monotony isn’t always bad. You could use different flowers with the same colors. The shape of the said flowers can provide the difference in textures that would give your garden that dramatic effect. Using one or two colors isn’t always boring. It really depends on how you execute the same.
* Every garden needs a focal point. Usually, this is done through the use of special features, like fountains, a tree, or other similar implements. If no such implements exist, you could use colors instead. If blue is your desired color for example, you could plant a series of blue flowers in the middle of a garden. The reason for a focal point is to catch the attention of eyes that would happen to see the garden. From the focal point, the eyes’ sight would spread outwards to experience and enjoy the rest that the garden has to offer.
* And speaking of focal points, you could use the same technique to draw the attention of your guests from unsightly items in your garden. Do you have an electricity pole in your garden which you just cannot get rid off? No problem. Simply use focal points to take away the attention that such would command.
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