Meet the Color Wheel
The color wheel is a gardener's best friend when it comes to creating a pleasing garden palette. It's based on the three primary colors -- red, yellow, and blue. A full color wheel resembles a rainbow, with red and orange next to yellow, followed by green, blue, purple, and violet. Generally speaking, warm colors are red through chartreuse while cool colors are green through violet.
Choice One: Complementary Colors
One natural way to combine colors in the garden is to choose complementary colors. That means selecting plants in colors that are across from one another on the color wheel. For example, red is across from green, orange is across from blue, and, as in this bright array, yellow is across from purple.
Here, lovely pink and purple anemone are a fun contrast to golden-yellow California poppy.
Choice Two: Analogous Colors
An analogous palette is also a good way to create garden color harmony. In this scheme, hues that are next to each other on the color wheel -- red and yellow, yellow and green, even fuchsia and purple as in this photo -- mix well together.
Shown here are pink foxgloves, blue delphiniums, a pink hydrangea, and red snapdragon.
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