Monochrome flower garden - color matters!

Owners of private plots and villas are trying to maximally effectively decorate the area near the house and sometimes create real masterpieces. Today it became fashionable to make out flowerbeds in monochrome. Color transitions from dark to light shade create a mood. As a rule, several basic color solutions are used and plants of different heights are selected to create the illusion of infinity.

All colors of the rainbow

Nature has created so many colorful and diverse flowers that it is rather difficult to pick just a few varieties for one flower bed, because you want to use all the colors. But for work it is necessary to select plants not only by color, but also by some other features. It is important to create a multilevel composition, take into account the flowering period of each chosen species, to diversify the composition with herbs and herbs.

As for the color solution, the most popular are yellow, red, blue and violet scales.

  1. The flower garden in the yellow-orange range creates a feeling of warmth and comfort on the site. This color combination is perfect for lovers of country style, country style with carts and decks. The flower garden can be calendula, marigolds, tulips, daylilies, lion's pharynx, primroses, violas and sunflowers.
  2. Natura romantic should like the transition from tender to rich pink . To arrange a flower bed is better near high bushes or on a background of a lawn. Since in itself a pale pink on the site looks faded, it must necessarily be combined with more vivid and rich shades. From flowers you can pick up phlox, fragrant tobacco , clove, rod-rose , crocuses, lilies and echinacea. As in the interior, pink on the site is well combined with gray and silver hues, so between the flowers is to land a croak and wormwood.
  3. The red color on the background of greenery attracts the views and becomes the center of the entire site. It is best to use only bright and saturated shades, and leave dark as inclusions. Flowers for a red flower bed can be taken: salvia, nasturtium, poppies, roses, canna, dahlia, decorative tobacco, tulips, beans, carnations. In such a flower garden will feel good cereals: bristle, cortaderia or miscanthus.
  4. Create something airy and even mystical can be in gentle purple tones. Such beds are best planted as seasonal or looking for shady places, as the violet shade quickly burns out in the sun. It fits well with white and yellow, these colors can "dilute" the composition if desired. Roses come from flowers, lavender with irises, tulips and bows.

How to decorate a monochrome flower garden?

First you need to decide on the color. This determines the location of the flower bed and the vegetation next door. For example, the yellow and orange compositions rightfully claim to be the center of the benches near the benches or the altanka. And the pink transitions would fit better into a shady corner near a hedge or a large tree. Light shades of violet in combination with white can visually increase the size of the site and are traditionally planted around the perimeter.

It is necessary to consider the timing of flowering, the preferences of the plants themselves: how they will feel themselves in the shade or in the sun, what kind of soil they prefer.

It is best for the basis to take perennials with different forms of flowers and leaves. And bright annuals create color accents. Consider the location: spread out the species in such a way that after the wilting did not form a prorecine and some species were replaced by others.