{"id":18561,"date":"2017-06-14T17:35:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18561"},"modified":"2017-06-14T19:32:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T18:32:06","slug":"garden-sky-and-colour-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/garden-sky-and-colour-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Garden Sky and Colour Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-448\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/seed-head.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"493\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/seed-head.jpg 2153w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/seed-head-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What colour is the sky? A strange question too a gardener perhaps but there are good gardening reasons for asking.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The standard answer from a young child would probably blue and that is what we want in summer as a sign of good weather. In winter it may indicate a spell of sharp frosty days. The sky takes on a deeper <strong>blue hue that saturates colours<\/strong> from mid morning to late afternoon.<\/li>\n<li>Harsh mid day light produces <strong>high contrast between light and shadow<\/strong>. This depend on weather condition, because on a cloudy day the light is diffused.<\/li>\n<li>An overcast sky is a result of no direct sunlight moisture in the atmosphere or <span class=\"_Tgc _y9e\">air pollution that causes haze and the sky to appears to be<strong> pale blue or even milky white<\/strong>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"st\">In the early morning or at sunset your sky can be <\/span><span class=\"st\">red, orange, purple and\/or yellow\u00c2\u00a0 but where I live, <\/span><span class=\"st\">too often<\/span><span class=\"st\"> it seems\u00c2\u00a0 to be grey. These colour\u00c2\u00a0 arise from the absorption or not of various parts of the\u00c2\u00a0 spectrum. This also has a profound <strong>effect on how you see the colour of flowers.<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"_Tgc\">Blue and white colours are called <strong>cool temperatures that tend to recede<\/strong> in a picture. The warm colours of yellow through to red come forward to the viewer.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Clouds are seldom if ever white, have a very close look and you will see lots of shades. Grey may predominate but the variety of shades will be multitudinous.<\/li>\n<li>Colour temperature is measured in Kelvins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5168\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Light-temperature.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"459\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Light-temperature.jpg 250w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Light-temperature-163x300.jpg 163w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Other Sky and Plant Pictures<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12118\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sycamore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sycamore.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Sycamore-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Cloud reflecting rose tints against a silhouette .<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-509 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/hot-poker.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/hot-poker.jpg 282w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/hot-poker-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Kniphofia against a violet sky<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17520\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blossom.jpg\" alt=\"blossom-apple\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blossom.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/blossom-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Apple Blossom contrasting against a sky<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3311\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rheum-flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rheum-flower.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/rheum-flower-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Rhem<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-764\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/honeysuckle.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/honeysuckle.jpg 448w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/honeysuckle-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Honeysuckle<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What colour is the sky? A strange question too a gardener perhaps but there are good gardening reasons for asking. The standard answer from a young child would probably blue and that is what we want in summer as a sign of good weather. In winter it may indicate a spell of sharp frosty days. The sky takes on a deeper blue hue that saturates colours from mid morning to late afternoon. Harsh mid day light produces high contrast between&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/articles\/design\/garden-sky-and-colour-effects\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285,48,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-and-sculpture","category-environmental-gardening","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}