A discount with an uninteresting appearance quickly ceases to be a garden decoration. This can be avoided by skillfully combining perennials and summer flowers, the colors of which create intriguing, tense compositions. Often only a pair of well-chosen plants is enough to achieve a great effect. The various colors of flowers and leaves create a huge field for showing off. Let's try to activate the fantasy and trust our sense of aesthetics and color.
Playing with colors gives a lot of satisfaction.
Colors can be compiled according to various rules.If we like delicate compositions, we place perennials with flowers of one color next to each other. Combinations of several shades of the same color look interesting, for example, a combination of light purple adjective flowers with dark purple sage panicles. The romantic atmosphere is created by plant duets in delicate colors: pink, light blue or lemon yellow.
Contrasts create tension:intense, contrasting colors stand out and are visible from a distance. Clumps of red montbrescia flowers combined with yellow sunflowers or violet-pink geranium and yellow-green algae enliven the bed and are a real feast for the eyes. However, harsh color combinations are dangerous and, in excess, can irritate and arouse anxiety, so you should probably not fill the entire garden with them. In a modest space of a small garden, harmonious pairs of colors look much better, for example, white combined with blue. So let's try to plant blue delphiniums and white bells next to each other or associate blue monkshoods with autumn Japanese anemones with white flowers.
Plant duets consisting of beautiful perennials or annual plants and perennials with decorative leaves are gaining more and more popularity. It is worth checking how the red-leaved crane Heuchera 'Palace Purple' looks in the company of the pink blooming Astilbe tawułka on our discount. Perennials with silver-gray leaves, such as Stachys byzantina or Artemisia stelleriana, look especially noble, in combination with plants with purple or purple flowers, such as the annual verbena.
Practical advice
When using colors in garden arrangements, we must take into account that they play a role in space. Cold colors (e.g. blue) extend the perspective, and warm colors (e.g. orange) shorten it. In order for the colors of the flowers to stand out in the flowerbed, at least several plants of one species should be planted next to each other. A small group can be made up to 3-5 specimens. The spacing between plants depends on their growth strength.For example, the sunflower Heliopsis needs a distance of 60 cm from the other plant, and the Aquilegia eagle needs a distance of 30 cm. Perennials are best planted in the spring or autumn, but they should also take root when they are in the bed at the end of summer.
If we are not sure if two perennials fit well together, set them on a flowerbed in pots for a few days. It is best to plant plants next to each other only if we like the combination of their colors without any major reservations.
When arranging the flowerbed, pay attention not only to the well-chosen colors of the flowers, but also to their properly arranged shapes. Tasteful combinations of various forms of flowers make it possible to create intriguing floral images. Also in this case, the principle is of fundamental importance that combining opposites, for example narrow long flowers with round, wide-open ones, gives particularly interesting effects. And such a wonderful duo is created by the astronaut flowers Erigeron 'Sommerneuschnee' with long, slender panicles of the Veronica spicata 'Rotfuchs' inflorescences.
Large flowers look good in combination with very small flowers, such as e.g. rudbeckia with a marigold. It is also worth trying to combine small-flowered gypsophila with yarrow.
