The pastel shades of pink and purple have long been flower crowd-pleasers, but the more unusual ends of the color spectrum can demonstrate just as much garden flair. Here, neon pink blossoms of primrose pick up the hybrid green-purple foliage of flowering cabbage; the hot hues are tempered by paler shades of twinspur and osteospermum.
Go Casual
Astilbes -- a shade favorite -- also do the gardener a favor by providing nearly limitless color options in the pink-purple spectrum. In this rambling woodland bed, there's no distinguishable pattern to the colors, but the random placement of plants works, in part because the hues -- from pale pink to deep fuchsia -- are complementary.
Pink and purple put on an exuberant display in this lushly casual garden. But while there's seemingly no order to the plantings, the flowerbed actually relies on tried-and-true gardening rules: shorter plants in front, similar varieties planted in clusters. It's a garden that also favors the specimen collector -- there are no less than eight plants, including bachelor's buttons, cosmos, cleome, coneflower, verbena, rose mallow, ageratum, and zinnia.
Take Center Stage
This cheerful combination of old-fashioned garden favorites offers enough blooms to please any gardener. What it does even better is use big groupings of single species -- the clematis over the arbor, delphiniums in the back, hollyhocks closer to the front -- to put the spotlight on showy flowers.
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