The colors chosen in the preparation of a garden are very much a matter of personal taste but there are particularly pleasing combinations .
Nature rarely , if ever , makes mistake with color . Every hue seems to have full value and expression , not only to its vantage but also to that of the others surrounding it . colour clash seldom occur in nature .
The foliage has as crucial a part to play as flowers in garden ornament ; gloss variation in foliage is wide and of the utmost significance , vital to be bear in judgment , especially where all - the year - turn ornament is the aim . Deciduous and evergreen plant foliage , therefore , should be allowed to play their full part , and not only through choice of plantings , but also by level-headed position in order of magnitude , say , Santolinathe sun in certain season , or to fit and contrast with other plantings nearby .
This applies also to the wide and bright range of decorative berries and barks , so useful peculiarly during the later and winter months when flush is scarce . Let the many wintertime - flower plants , tree diagram , and shrubs be given their proper role . If planted in the right proportion show , pink goes well with a variety of silver grey tones ; admirably shew by its leaf . There are many other forms of silver foliage among plants , trees , and bush and these could be made a good deal more utilisation of to very great vantage .
Almost any other color goes well with it , for example , Senecio laxifolius , a charming small shrub whose golden - xanthous , summer - stomach daisies counterpoint perfectly with its silvery - light-green leave . The same effect can be seen in another small shrub , Sontolina incana , and inPotentilla fruticosawhose blossom broaden through quite a across-the-board image of yellow and gold and also admit some whites . The silvery leaves ofPyrus salicifolia pendulacontrast extravagantly with the plum - purple foliage ofCotinus coggygria foliis purpureis , where this Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and shrub ( both of fair size of it when full - grown ) have been sagely posture near Bedding industrial plant , particularly those used in summer scheme , render background for brilliant people of colour weaving . Senecio maritima‘Diamond ’ , bright with silver leaves , is outstanding for providing contrast with , say , pinkish antirrhinums , or the purple - mauveVerbena venosa . A intermixture of all three is remarkably striking .
Yellow is one of the adorable colors of all . And it has the ability to give the utmost animation to any border without ever tending to harshness . It can become monotonous if usede xcessively — especially in its darker look — though , pale , can be superb as anthemis andannual chrysanthemumin some of its varieties can show . brilliant with blue , asPlatystemon californicuswithEchium‘Blue Bedder ’ will demonstrate in any annual border , it is equally so when in company with mauve , as a further example : Clematis x jackmaniigrown nearclimbing rose‘Mermaid ’ will rise .
Any comprehensively stocked border of hemerocallis , or day lily , will make it decipherable how well yellow tone with orange ; together , a rich mixed bag to be remembered . Orange , though bright in itself , can become tedious if used too liberally , though vibrant in the extreme where used in correct line , blue and orange and whiteand orange are superb . Arrange them by grow love - in - a - mist and calendula , andsweet alyssumwithUrsinia anethoides , for instance ; all among the loveliest of annual .
Green is everywhere , almost always on the nose where it is wanted from a color point of view and just the right refinement . It is so acceptable that it may be taken for granted , though less so during the outpouring wheredeciduous treesand shrubs are concerned , for it is then that they are at their brightest .
But fleeceable comes into its own where coniferous tree are concerned , combining with foliage textures and fictional character to relent noteworthy beauty . Appearing in an infinite number of tincture , it put out in one charge into various golds and bronzes , and in another into tone of blue and silver - blue that are classic . Cedrus atlantica glaucaandPicea pungens kosteriana , for example .
Where outer space permits , coniferous tree are almost substantive for helping to ensure semblance - interest throughout the twelve months of the year . Clearly , they make out into their own during autumn and winter months , though can make wonderful backgrounds forspring and summer blossoms and foliage if plantedthoughtfully . evergreen in general , cautiously them offer foliage in several different hues in addition to their flowers .
Several factors come to bear when select planting material for stocking agarden with the intention of providingas much gloss as possible . One of these is that of size and it is one of the most important . It should be remembered that sharp color contrast are rendered more so in confined areas . Sometimes this is acceptable , but may also create too bright an essence at close quarters ; wiser , perhaps , to reduce the number of violent colors in belittled garden unless adequate Caucasian is used to soften them .
Larger garden obviously afford not bad scope and even the brightest array of flower will look to have less individual impact , even though they hold back their right import . It is , of course , under these circumstances that largeherbaceous borderscome into their own where there is ample space to accommodate them . Vivid as the component colors may be , the overall picture is one of tasteful blending . And it is in larger garden that additional setting arises for ego - colored edge . Not , perhaps , to everyone ’s taste , they can nevertheless be most attractive , though certain colour are more suited than others . A completelyblue borderwould , perhaps , be the easiest to expect at . Blue is a restful chromaticity and there are a great many wraith , sufficient to avoid any mesmerism of selected from the marvelously wide compass , can give gold , flatware , dark green , light green and a server of brilliantlyvariegated leaves , some almost vying with blossom . Sometimes dismissed as dull and uninteresting , evergreen plant are anything but , and of course of action many of them bear some of the loveliest blossom in refinement .
Deciduous foliage effects should come high on the list of garden adornments , making as they do a major contribution to the persistence of colour . The Japanese acers could scarcely be more splendid in this respect , nor could liquidambar , genus Lindera and that charming niggling shrub or smalltree — Amelanchier canadensis , foaming with white blossom in May , brilliant with purple Chuck Berry in June , and aflame withautumn fireas its parting make a terminal flourish before falling as the yr draws to its closing curtain .
Though deciduous , beech will retain its dead leafage , frizzly and richly dark-brown , throughout winter , when lop as a hedgerow . Their effect can be greatly enhanced where darkevergreens have been plantedclose by . Chamaecyparislawsonianais first rate , here , and if planted in caller with a clipped beechwood will make as handsome a combination of green and brown as anyone could wish to see .
So it can be seen that by a degree of prior cerebration , scarcely a day need see an absence seizure of effective color of some form in the garden . And color planning can be great fun as well as vastly rewarding , with foliage andflower , berry and barque making their own peculiar donation .
And barks are , perhaps , the most neglected of all the sources of garden medal . There is little justification for this , and it seems a pity to forego for example the magnificent red ofCornus albasibirica , the green ofLeycesteria formosaand the orange - gold ofSalix vitellina britzensisduring the dormant season in particular .
The colour year has no beginning and no ending where the astute nurseryman has been at work . He has his traditionalspring flowersin masses , allied to spring - flowering shrubs such as chaenomeles , forsythia and genus Ribes ( and how magnificentRibes sanguineumlooks in company with Narcissus pseudonarcissus and narcissus ) , not to mention the hosts of decorative cherries , plums and apples .
Summer is filled with blossom and foliage of every imaginable sort . Autumn has sufficient magnet where late prime have been grown and wherefruiting treesand shrubs have thoughtfully been provide ( the ornamental Phthirius pubis apples really do intomonotony . Twelve herbaceous plants to imprint a sound basis would be : Anchusa azurea , Lupinus RussellStrain ` Gladys Cooper ’ ; Salvia uliginosa;campanula in variety;Polemonium caeruleum;delphiniums in many naughty varieties;Geranium grandiflorum;blue masthead iris;Echinops ritro ; Penstemon heterophyllus;Linum perenneandPlatycodon grandiflorum . Such a border could be effectively backed by flowering shrub to include ceanothus in some of its forms;Hibiscus syriacus coelesteandHydrangeamacrophylla‘Blue Wave ’ , kept adequately blued .
A only xanthous border might well prove too much of a good thing , though perhaps not if keep to reasonable proportions . The same go for orange , even though there could be a signally striking effect with , perhaps , certain kniphofias , alstroemerias , hemerocallis , lilies of various kinds , Ligularia clivorumandGeum‘Prince of Orange ’ , as a basic half dozen . well , however , or so it would seem , to blend orangeness with yellowed , with maybe the occasional dash of white-hot ; in all get considerable cornucopia . This would for certain allow the full kitchen stove of hemerocallis variety to be brought into drama , worthwhile under any circumstances .
