Effective colorscape
One of the most clear and beautiful sights in your garden is usually the least understood — the colors you use. It’s almost impossible to think about a garden without thinking in terms of color, and yet, most gardeners treat the subject very casually.
No matter whether you’re a licensed landscape architect, or just digging into your garden for your first try at planting, you must always think in terms of color. And, you have to view your landscape like an artist looks at his canvas. You can’t, for example, pick a color that you like and then look for a place to put it; you have to view your site and decide what you want, and which colors will
do best in the particular areas you have in mind.
Fortunately, or not, Mother Nature got to your area before you and placed colors of her own which you have to work with.
Sometimes our eyes become so accustomed to seeing familiar colors around us that we forget to consider them as colors at all. However, by using Mother Nature’s palette properly, we can enhance our surroundings a great deal. The blues of the sky, the greens of leaves and lawns, the browns of soil and tree trunks are all colors that are there, and all car.