Colour scheme???

Nancy. ;-))

I don't do color schemes. My idea of a color scheme is making sure two daylilies of the same color are not planted side by side.

Color scheme? ROTFL I've tried but have never succeeded.

Annette

Yes, I did stick to it when I just began: it had to be not just of a particular color, but the shade as well - drove me crazy!
Nowadays - anything goes!
~Natalie

Because, blue/purple flowers are irresistable. It's the second law of nature. Immediately following the law of gravity.

; )

Yes, I always stick to a color scheme....something and purple! LOL

I am trying to stay with a theme in the fairy garden...white, pink, lavender and purple with touches of blue, so I should be able to stick with that color scheme :)

I was going to have yellow, orange, red and white in the kitchen garden/potager, with a little lavender/purple accent. That's why I got the Snow Pavement roses for that garden...white with hints of lavender, as well as marigolds, nasturtiums, calendula, and other warm colors. Now, there are four pink roses that have found there way into the plan and I'm sure lots of purple, pink and white stock, not to mention the climbing beans and peas that have purple and pink flowers, so I guess I'm going for a rainbow color scheme...sounds like zinnias might tie it all together!

My color scheme is "spilled Crayola box". Not hard to stick with that scheme!

And if any neighboring plants clash I just stick something white flowering in next to them and that fixes everything.

Lynda

I do keep to general color schemes. I find it makes the garden look more organized - and makes resisting impulse purchases easier (if it won't fit the colors somewhere, I just don't buy it.) But I don't make the color schemes too restrictive. The backyard is predominately green and white but there are lots of cool tones of blues, red/pinks and just a bit of yellow and orange. The main front bed is cool pastels with some stronger cool reds. The driveway border on the north is the 'pretty in pink' border. The herb bed on the south side of the driveway is transitioning to one that will shade from pink through peachy colors to rusty reds and oranges.

I like playing with color. The garden at our first house was 'polychrome' to put it politely. By the time we moved here, I was ready to let that garden go because the mix of colors were driving me nuts. I like the comment one garden writer made on the 'riot of color' approach I used in my previous garden - 'who wants to live in a riot?'. That comment, and reading Gertrude Jekyll's Color in the Flower Garden changed how I saw and used color in my garden. When you have a plan for color, however loose it may be, you end up with more 'happy accidents' I find. Things fall into the basic framework in unexpected ways at times but are less likely to create jarring contrasts.

Well that is a relief, to know I am not the only one that couldn't stick with a theme.

-pirula, love that! And it is so true- blues of any shade are hard to resist!

-Lynda, I think Cottage Gardeners must like to color outside of the lines! ;-D

-LL, your color theme of purples is going to look great! You are probably going to be better at keeping to it than was with the front shade garden! Sometimes I lack will-power, lol.

Ps. Do ya' think this means I can go hog wild now, and buy all of those blue flowers for shade that I had resisted before?! Deinanthe caerulea here I come!
CMK

The only thing I usually do is paint all the structures the same mossy green. Flowers? You've seen my iris. I love em all.

kay

haha - I've really, really tried to stick with color schemes, but as time goes by, more and more things seem to creep into the different beds, so now they're mostly just all different colors.

I started with a 'pink and purple bed', a 'red and yellow' bed, and an 'apricot' bed. The pink and purple bed has pretty much stayed that way, but the red and yellow bed now has pink, purple, white, and orange. The apricot bed now has pink, blue, yellow, purple, and white in it. So, I guess basically I have one pink and purple bed and two 'anything goes' beds! lol