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Home  Collectibles Garden and Outdoors Considering The Color Of Your Garden
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Considering The Color Of Your Garden |
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Written by RayBonanza
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Monday, 15 February 2010 |
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Color is something that many gardeners tend to ignore. Together with shape, form and perfume, it makes up the four factors contributed by the plants, the most important subjects in the garden. Even So the vast majorities of gardeners either omit it from their plans, or (worse) group together plants that clash and offend the eye. We would be unlikely to paper our walls with a pattern incorporating flowers of red, blue, green, violet, yellow and orange, all fighting to outshine each other, but that is just the effect that many people create in their gardens.
by RayBonanza
Color is something that many gardeners tend to ignore. Together with shape, form and perfume, it makes up the four factors contributed by the plants, the most important subjects in the garden. Even So the vast majorities of gardeners either omit it from their plans, or (worse) group together plants that clash and offend the eye. We would be unlikely to paper our walls with a pattern incorporating flowers of red, blue, green, violet, yellow and orange, all fighting to outshine each other, but that is just the effect that many people create in their gardens.
The reason why so many gardeners fall into this trap is that they easily forget that the rules of color coordination are just as significant outside the house as inside, and they apply to natural as well as to man-made decorations. Evidently, accomplishing harmony is easier with the latter as any color you wish may be easily obtained. In the garden, this problem is further heightened with the background of the sky - bright blue during the summer months, and so different in the winter.
Winter skies are less tricky, and there are also far less brightly-colored flowers in bloom at this time of the year - indeed, color represents such a welcome diversion that we tend to accept with gratitude any that appears. This you can overcome with thorough planning. There are a surprisingly large number of plants that do flower and provide color throughout the winter months, as well as numerous twigs and branches (such as dogwood) that all contribute relief during the short dull days.
There is just no reason to neglect a consideration of color just because plants are natural. Nowhere in nature will you find so many different flowers growing in such close proximity as in a flower bed. The flowers may well bloom in our gardens in their natural seasons, but gardeners do bring together in one small plot plants from all over the world which would not normally co-exist.
You must be aware that in the natural world there is no clash of colors. All natural plants must vie for resources, such as the services of insects, birds and other animals for fertilization. The first plants to bloom naturally in the spring are the yellows - during late March and early April this color takes over in both the garden and the countryside. It is believed that this is due to the pollinating insects that are flying at that time of year being attracted only to yellow.
Whilst this is essential to the survival of the wild plant in its natural habitat, it is of no consequence to the imported garden species which do not count upon the forces of natural selection. Other plants are bred and have no really close equivalents in the natural world -these are plants which have been produced by crossing two species, and sometimes these two species may even come from different continents. Nature itself does not create colors that clash and you should try to do the same.
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