Flower-power colours in the garden

After a walk around my wild, semi-rural garden in the sunshine today, I am inspired by the crazy colours and colour combinations. I love flowers. No matter what sort of day I have had, it always makes me smile to come home to a front garden of self-sown red, pink and white corn poppies, calendula and wallflowers all madly in flower and vying for attention. Where the trees, hedges and evergreens give a garden the framework, colour is the accessory to make the garden pop.

The best way I do this for my low maintenance garden client is to have a small patch which is full of colour. This becomes my clients’ ‘play-patch’ where they have flowering perennials and they can add annuals, bulbs etc to keep the colour going through every season. The rest of the garden will relatively look after itself once established.

Look for colour contrasts in your flowers. Blue with yellow, Red with gold, even pinks and oranges go surprisingly well. White or blue flowers are a great ‘foil’ to mix with any colour. Try mixing all colours for a wild and old-fashioned effect. A more subtle effect is staying with the same colour but in different shades, this works nicely with the spectrum of pinks, and with blues mixing through to white.

Be brave with colour. The one great thing with gardens is that it is easy and relatively low cost to change the colour scheme with fashion, with your mood, or with the season.

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