Everyone wants a garden filled with colourful plants, and it can be useful to learn how different shades compliment each other.
Making colours blend can create a beautiful overall effect to be enjoyed from your Outback reclining chairs.
Firstly, the colour green makes a great impact in any garden. As it’s the most common hue found outdoors, it helps any chosen colour scheme come together – but you will still need to have a coherent colour plan.
A good idea is to use a colour wheel, picking shades that naturally harmonise alongside each other on the wheel.
One possibility is to separate colours into warm and cool groupings, and create a scheme based around them. That way, cool coloured plants like blue, white and purple can be placed together to produce calm, quiet garden sections.
The warm shaded flowers, such as reds and oranges, can also be bedded together in their own areas that emphasise vibrancy and excitement.
You don’t have to separate warm and cool colours though. They can sometimes work alongside each other. The hot shade of orange will sit nicely alongside cool blues, while warm yellows also blend very well with cooler purples.
You will often be able to see what works simply by trying out combinations, but you should do any colour experiments of this sort before planting your blooms, as it will be too late afterwards.
Of course, you should always plant what you love, in a way that best suits your style – but it can always be helpful to plan your colour scheme before you commit to it.
