{"id":3950,"date":"2012-10-21T04:18:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T11:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3950"},"modified":"2012-10-21T06:01:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T13:01:16","slug":"choosing-bold-colours-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/choosing-bold-colours-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Bold Colours in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting aspects of gardening is the combination of colours that can be achieved by accident or design.<br \/>\nLeaves and bark can play their part but it is the bold colours of some of our favourite flowers that take centre stage. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3637\/3637801321_a5a155ec55.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"colour\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, we like the delicate, soothing pastel shades or the zen of a &#8216;<a href=\"\/blog\/flowers\/making-a-white-garden\/\">White Garden<\/a>&#8216; but, this doesn&#8217;t mean we always have to follow decorum and good taste. Sometimes its nice to just choose great impact colours which add life, zest and sparkle to the garden. The kind of colour combination that makes a passerby think &#8211; &#8216;hmm that&#8217;s interesting&#8217;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3365\/3637799801_0260612a82.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"colour\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Deep Purple Delphiniums and bright red poppies<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3347\/3638191986_6ce7609dae.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"colour\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Californian Poppy. Lovely mass of orange<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3591\/3638186910_0f57fd18e5.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"colour\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">This dark pink peony creates great impact in the border<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6243506749\/\" title=\"Pot Mum by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.staticflickr.com\/6221\/6243506749_5e36ce0355.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Pot Mum\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This autumn I have done particularly well with Chrysanthemums a plant I have previously struggled with. Pot mums are easier to grow for a showy colour scheme but individual blooms can be stellar.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips for Bold Colour<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>Choose plants that flower at the same time to get the contrasts shown above.<\/ol>\n<ol>Think about your colour scheme be fore starting out. Do you intend having a single colour or sharp contrasts<\/ol>\n<ol>Blue versus orange and  red versus green are two popular combinations.<\/ol>\n<ol>See <a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/tips\/colourful-tips\/\">our page <\/a>on the colour wheel for use in the garden.<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most interesting aspects of gardening is the combination of colours that can be achieved by accident or design.<br \/>\nLeaves and bark can play their part but it is the bold colours of some of our favourite flowers that take centre stage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[77,106,142],"class_list":["post-3950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flowers","tag-colour","tag-exotic","tag-top10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21328,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3950\/revisions\/21328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}