Make An Impression With Your Garden By Using The Right Colour Schemes For Your Containers

Make An Impression With Your Garden By Using The Right Colour Schemes For Your Containers

by

Gregory Woodford-Hayes

Spring may not quite have sprung yet, but with the snowdrops and crocus out, and more and more green shoots appearing each day, it is definitely on its way. And if you ve a spring in your step, use it to head on over to the garden centre, or take a virtual trip online to a nursery or supplier to start ordering your new plants.

One of the best things you can use to brighten up the outside of your house are hanging baskets and plant containers. We only moved in last year, so my plans were somewhat waylaid, but this year I m determined to get it right. In order to create a dramatic look that stands out you want to have contrasting colours in your containers and you also need to consider height and texture.

Getting the right colour scheme for the flowers is vital and there are a number of different ways that you can choose them for your baskets, containers or even a border.

If you re familiar with the colour wheel (often found in interior design and gardening books), you ll know that there are complementary colours, which usually sit at opposing sides of the wheel – red and green for instance, and yellow and purple. You will also find that colours that are located next to each other like blue and violet also combine together well. These are just a few of the different colour schemes you can try. You can find some great examples of colour wheels on the Internet so you can begin playing around with potential colour schemes right now. You could also go to a local garden centre or home improvement store to get a paper one.

Another way of picking out colours is to use those that are equally spaced throughout the wheel such as blue, red and yellow. If you’re in a bit of a rut when it comes to choosing colour themes for your containers, this is a great way to get yourself thinking outside the box.

You could opt for one hued containers rather than having contrasting containers. You could try a hot summer container by having plants that are different variations of red. Why not try plants such as red petunias, scarlet sage, red pelargoniums and coleus with deeper red foliage. If you fancy a cooler look then try going for different types of blues with plants like Nemesia and blue and purple petunias.

You should start seeing your containers coming to life in the next month but if you have yet to get around to planting your bulbs there is still a way to get involved. You can buy all kinds of bulbs, from tulips to narcissi and muscari (grape hyacinths) as plants, and then add to containers with foliage plants such as euonymus and heuchera. You can still follow the same colour schemes – how about yellow narcissus ‘tete a tete’ with purple heuchera ‘plum pudding?

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garden workshops

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