It’s an excellent time to ask if you are making the optimum use of color in your garden designs.
Blue flowers have many virtues, not the least being the facility to create optical illusions. If yellow shades are your tops, do your flower beds stand out in engaging contrasts, or do you have a monotonous and overdone yellow theme? If this is so think about introducing some variety and contrast in your colors.
A bright yellow is certainly contented, but combined with blue flowers, you have got drama and cheer. Nature provides flowers in virtually each color of the rainbow. There are even chocolate brown, lime green and black flowers, as a consequence of hybridizing. If your garden is little, a bed of evergreen blue phlox, planted along the street side of your property, makes your garden appear bigger when viewed from within your house. If you have brilliant pink climbing roses planted along the porch, with faded blue flowers,eg phlox, at the front gate, you have got 2 focal points, similarly charming. Look thru your catalogues for bulbs, annuals and evergreens to fill out your color palette in each season.
If you’ve a cutting garden, be certain to include some blues for your flower arrangements. Blue flowers, in many shades, provide just that perfect bit of contrast to your agreements.
The color blue has a relaxing effect on the eyes, so keep this under consideration when planning plantings in relaxation spots, for example a terrace, gazebo or your fave garden reading spot.
Planters and hanging baskets give an ethereal feel to the hot days of summer, providing a cool tone with simply a sprinkling of blue in a trailing basket of more pushy colours.
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