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Garden I spend a lot of my time adding structure to gardens – trees, shrubs, evergreens and architectural foliage plants. We need these to give our borders cohesion and good overall shape, to act as backdrops and frames for the seasonal plants as they come and go. Structure is sensible and important, but without colour there’s not much joy – it can seem like an empty stage waiting for the action. It could be a floaty, soothing blend of harmonious pastels or a riotous clash of the most vibrant and cheerful hues – taste is personal and often idiosyncratic, but whatever side of the colour wheel you roll on, adding a splash (or a flood) of colour will instantly bring a garden to life. Some effects of colour – and colour schemes Pale colours recede and make things seem larger or further away. Strong colours are dominant and rush towards us. You can use this to create illusions with space or to play with perspective – make an area seem bigger by using paler plants in the background and brights and darks closer in. Dense, dark colours are sombre, but can provide an anchor point, and make excellent backdrops for other plants. Pale colours will lift a shady area (as will glossy foliage – it is reflective). Fiery reds and oranges create excitement, whereas pastel colours are calming. The quality of light changes during the day too – whites, pale creams, mauves and blues shine out at dawn and dusk and are ‘washed out’ in strong light, whereas bright colours look best in full sun and fade into the background as the sun goes down. It’s easy to forget that green is a colour too. In the garden it becomes a calming neutral background, because there’s so much of it around, but its effects are felt nevertheless. Green falls in the middle of the spectrum and is restful to look at – it is the colour of nature and immediately makes us more relaxed (this is why so many hospital walls are painted in soft greens and blues). Whether it’s the darkest shade of holly through acid lime, chartreuse, glaucous, almost blue to pale and silvery, green remains a tranquil foil, harmonising with other shades of green and providing a buffer between patches of colour. Harmonies are created by using similar colours – pale pastel shades of mauve, blue and pink blend well Dahlia ‘Nicholas’ Rudbeckia ‘Goldsturm’ Ranunculous grown in a pot together and look lovely in semi-shade or the dappled light under trees. Cottage garden perennials like Nepeta (catmint), Geranium ‘Johnsons Blue’, or the longer flowering, but less interesting to pollinators, G. ‘Rozanne’ look romantic under roses. Sunny borders may need to be brighter to stand up to harsh sunlight. Geranium ‘Ann Folkhard’ has magenta flowers with a dark central ‘eye’, Geum like the sun (but also damp soil) and are available in cheerful shades of orange and yellow – my favourite (at the moment`) is G. ‘Totally Tangerine’, which seems to manage and even clump up unusually well in free draining conditions. For a splash of vibrant red you can’t do much better than tall and architectural Crocosmia ‘Lucifer’, which enlivens both exotic and cottage schemes. Fabulous Foliage The range of flower colours available to us is mind-blowing, but flowers are fleeting and can’t be used to carry a scheme through every month of the year. Foliage can offer nearly as much variety in terms of colour – and for a much longer period. Leafy plants can have the added advantage of good shape and form too. Foliage can still be a part of colour schemes – picking up the colours and Mix it up Jo Arnell celebrates the joys of myriad colours in the garden Pink cosmos enhancing their effect, or even to carry the scheme once the flowers have finished. A leaf can often have as much colour as a flower, and is far longer lasting. Large leaves and architectural foliage will also bring structure and unity to the border. Cotinus coggygria (the ‘smoke’ bush – so called because its flowery plumes look puffs of smoke) is a large shrub grown mainly for its leaves. The best known varieties are ‘Royal Purple’ which has deep plum coloured foliage, or ‘Grace’ whose leaves are more translucent and ethereal. Plant Cotinus in a sunny position at the back, or as a specimen – the sunshine will make the vibrant red of the autumn colour stronger. Berberis is smaller leaved and spiny, with orange flowers in spring, but offers similar deep red/bronze and the deciduous varieties will be fiery in autumn. It’s a big group – a Berberis could be a huge back of the border monster, a diminutive dwarf like B. ‘Nana’, or even columnar – B. ‘Helmond Pillar, ‘Orange’ or ‘Golden Rocket’. Try the exotic looking Melianthus major, with glaucous, serrated leaves (it will be cut down by the frosts as it is slightly tender, but perks up again in the spring). Euphorbia ‘Wulfenii’ also has glaucous blue/green leaves, 109 priceless-magazines.com
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