Or, conversely, your color choices can enhance the existing features by accentuating them. What existing features might influence your choices? Your house, walls, paving and existing landscaping can provide the background for your choices. To start your color plan, take cues from your surroundings. Pairing orange with blue, red with green, or yellow with violet creates a very vibrant, playful atmosphere as the contrast between the colors tends to intensify each color. A third scheme uses complementary colors, those opposite each other on the color wheel.
This bold arrangement can be softened by incorporating hues between these colors for a transitional effect. An analogous arrangement will utilize colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel, such as yellow, orange and red. This combination is typically harmonious and pleasant. A monochromatic selection will include one color with variations ranging from dark to light, such as maroon to magenta to pale pink (and anything in between). Next, determine the arrangement of colors to suit the mood that you want to create.
They offer the contrast that can both punctuate and brighten the colors in the leaves and flowers around them. These colors appear on the bark of woody plants, on evergreens, in dormant grasses and in turfgrass. Brown, black, tan, gray, white and even green are often present, whether or not they are intentional. In addition to the warm and cool aspects of color, consider neutral colors in the garden and their effect on the landscape plan. Cool colors recede to create a more spacious feeling. Cool colors elicit calm and quiet, inviting the passerby to linger. They are best used as a focal point or to draw the eye to a specific area or entrance. They spring forward, close in spaces and demand attention. The color wheel consists of warm colors and cool colors with red, orange and yellow on the warm side and blue, green and violet on the cool side. If you can visualize the organized gradation of color that completes each wedge of the circle from its lightest tints in the center to the darkest shades on the rim, you can begin to assemble color combinations that deliberately create the ambience you desire. These colors are further expanded by value (how light or dark they are) and intensity (the strength or saturation of the color). The purposeful use of color requires understanding a few basic principles.įirst, consider the color wheel with its triad of primary colors: red, yellow and blue and the secondary colors that come from combining the first three: orange, green and violet. Should then centuries of study on the theory of color, its psychological impact and its intrinsic appeal be disregarded? I think not! There is much more to color than meets the eye (pun intended!) It can invite you into a space or it can push you away. When it comes to using color in the garden, many may say there are no right or wrong choices.
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