Let the color wheel work for your garden.
It offers simple solutions for combining plants and flowers.
It’s based on the three primarycolors– red, yellow, and blue.
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Generally speaking, warm colors are red through chartreuse while cool colors are green through violet.
Choice One: Complementary Colors
One natural way to combinecolorsin thegardenis to choose complementary colors.
That means selecting plants in colors that are across from one another on thecolor wheel.
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Here, lovely pink and purple anemone are a fun contrast to golden-yellow California poppy.
Choice Two: Analogous Colors
An analogous palette is also a good way to creategardencolorharmony.
Shown here are pink foxgloves, blue delphiniums, a pink hydrangea, and red snapdragon.
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Choice Four: Warm Colors
A plant also supplies a landscape with mood based on itscolortones.
Here, it’s done with orange zinnia, Double Knockout roses, and Mexican sage.
In that case, it’s green and purple.
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Here it’s a yellow pansy with blue salvia.
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