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Transcript: Landscape Color
This is a great time of year for painting our landscapes with color. Annuals provide many great options for bringing color into the landscape. but there are a few tips that will be helpful in making your landscape its best.First of all, when you use a lot of different colors, it sort of creates a riot of color and it's fine when viewed up close. But as you move back away, such as looking at your yard from the street, they sort of combine together and you lose the effect. It's better to use colors from opposite on the color wheel and put them in large swaths rather than mixing them together.
Red and green, for example, are opposite on the color wheel. Red and green combine well and, of course, plants with red flowers provide their own green leaves to make that combination.
Yellow works very well with purple. Again, opposites on the color wheel make nice, a pleasing combination. And then blue combining with orange is another similar example.
I might add that plants in the same family of color, like the yellow and the gold and the orange, all combine well together.
We mustn't forget the gray leaf plants. Dusty Miller is another good example that we often use as is Powis Castle Artemisia and the gray of Santolina. Gray leaf plants look really good with white plants and with blue plants as well. And speaking of white, white combines well with any color. Plus, use white in shady areas to brighten up the shade.
With your commonsense tip on painting your landscape with a riot of color, I'm Skip Richter.
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