Color in the garden – How to get the best out of different shades
Garden Gazebos Articles February 24th, 2010
The design of color in the garden is not just a matter of creating harmony and contrasts, while avoiding collisions. It 'also a question of understanding the different characteristics in different colors, and in doing so, its use in the garden for maximum effect.
The color tones can be "hot" and "cool" their split. Definition of which category belongs a particular color, is of great importance for creating a mood. The warm colors or warm (depending on how deepis) as red and orange, tend to arouse and stimulate, while cool colors like blue and green, relaxing and peaceful. Random mixture of the two categories only creates chaos is not important.
The eye reacts to a certain way when they are stimulated by different colors. Red, for example, the effect of the future direction of the eyes, while blue tends to recede. Designers blues, often of mass, where the intent is to create the illusion of a larger space in a small garden bed. One way to createpoint of view, instead of red flowers in front of the blue, but shades of red and blue should be selected so as not to interfere in both color and mood.
In contrast to the interior designer, painter, or for that matter, the gardener has to do with the different intensity of light in the garden. Compounding the problem, changing throughout the day. This is important because, as the colors red and yellow to look for the best in full light, while the pastel colors;lemon pink, blue, pale, etc., seems weak and insipid, the light lasts, but they are entering on the very soft light. Therefore, pastel colors that are so right for the soft light in England or Ireland, it seems out of place in light of the luminous intensity of the Mediterranean. A climbing rose burgundy, for example, will be much better in the Mediterranean, whitewashed walls, a sky blue Plumbago.
Baring in mind that the work of red, orange and yellow best in full light, whileBlue and green are the colors of the shadows, pastel blue or an agreement can be designed into parts of the garden, which is partly in shadow at certain times of day. So the family has a tendency to sit in the afternoon when the light is much softer than the afternoon, it was the blues, pink, and ice is the heart of the project color of the garden.