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Color in the Garden

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Gardens Without Color


Ahhhhh... Gardens With Color


The Gardener's Color Wheel


Color Schemes for the Garden

HarmonyMonochromatic: Single color Analogous: 3-5 adjacent colorsAnalogous-Complementary: 3 adjacent + 1 complement

ContrastComplementary: 2 opposite colorsSplit Complementary: 1 key + colors either side of complementTriad: 3 colors equal spaced on color wheel


Monochromatic

The White Garden at Sissinghurst


Pure color, Tint, Tone, Shade


Green


Blue Containers


Violet-Blue


Blue & Violet-Blue


Red Shade & Tint?


Red-Violet


4 Adjacent Colors


Cool Adjacent Tones & Shades


Adjacents + 1 Complementary


Harmony: Pinks, Blues, Violets


Green & Red


Yellow-Green & Violet-Red


Yellow & Violet


Key Color + Complement Neighbors


Triad: 3 Equally Spaced Colors


Primaries: Blue, Red, Yellow


Red-Violet, Yellow-Orange, Blue-Green


Orange-Red, Violet-Blue, Green-Yellow


“Jumping Off the Color Wheel”


Silver & White

Photos by Karen Platt


Silver Foliage in Shade


Rose Campion


White Grabs the Attention


White Softens


Black & Darks



Dark & Silver – Large Scale


Dark & Silver


Emeralds



Lady's Mantel


Gold Fever



Golden Foliage


Golden Garden


Plants for Your Color Scheme


Continuous Color


Summer


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