Haha. My garden is OCD as well.

I like purples, whites, and clear lemon yellows together. And I like true red and white together.

No pinks or burgundys or golds for me. And certainly no oranges.

And, of course, no bicolored blooms nor the currently-popular three-color mum baskets.

Yes, I’m weird.

Even better than white is deep purple or deep blue against silvery foliage.

Every house I've had it's been different in the front but along the same lines in the back -- that's because the front is for "public" viewing, has to look good from the street and coordinate color-wise with the house, while the back is my private area and I like colors that have a soothing vibe, my view is out the window not at the house.

My first house was brownish brick, and reds looked fantastic and showed really well, along with white -- so a red and white color scheme in the front there. Then it was onto a brick house painted white (came that way, wasn't my fault...), and I went with hot pink and white in the front; I had that house re-painted to a soft taupe color and added some stonework, and I found I still liked the hot pink.

This house is log-sided, an orangey-red color, and the color scheme in the front here is primarily golden yellows and reds with an occasional dash of dark blue -- the blue is smashing against the color of the house but just can't see it well when viewed looking at the house. Gotta have cobalt blue pots, though -- have always had a penchant for that color pottery.

The golden yellows really pop against the house:

I'm not fussy in the spring, I do have some white-blooming shrubs and misc colors bulbs and spring bloomers in the front, I'll take pretty much anything I can get, I don't even care that they don't color coordinate with the house LOL!

In the back and along the sides it's various shades of blue/purple, white, and hot pink or fuschia (but it has to be juuuust the right shades or it drives me nuts). I used to do softer pink and lavenders in the other houses but because I have a butt-ugly faux-wood deck that's pinky-orange (blech!) those soft shades just don't look good, the deeper, richer shades look much, much better. Also, I sometimes wonder if part of it is also me getting older and needing visually stronger flowers (you know...senses diminishing and all that...)

I really like pink,lavendar and a bright yellow.

Well, there's none of us in the 'don't mind as long as it flowers' camp, that's for sure...where I am afraid to say, I lived for a very long time. despite being hugely opinionated about colours and combinations. I put up with a horrible combination of pink and yellow roses, in my home garden, for years (apols beesandblues). There was a 3 week overlap, when both were in bloom when I had to cultivate unseeing...which is difficult in a minuscule garden. At the same time, I simply couldn't face the disruption of digging one out...in fact, I have been really very slow to do the annual moving stuff around which is popular on here.

Its only now I have a sort of critical mass of plants that I am getting my head around actual planning and design...although back when I did this for customers, I definitely displayed more taste and style than I ever do in my own patch.

Years and years ago, I came across a certain Mrs Desmond Underwood who had a famous silver garden...and I definitely had a little craze for convolvulous cneorum, eryngoes, artemisias and teucriums and the like but it was a fairly short-lived border because california poppies and red flax would creep in. I think maintaining colour schemes requires discipline I just don't possess,

Currently, I am just emerging from a purple/chartreuse phase...with too many euphorbias, bupleurums, linarias, purple salvias and such.

Colour choices are very seasonal too - I like the pale primroses, creams and soft pinks in the cool spring light, but by midsummer, I crave oranges, scarlets, plums and deep pinks. I am not a great user of blue, having only anchusa, echium and agapanthus. Apart from the pink/yellow combo, there are no colours which are banned from the garden. I did wonder if aging had something to do with choices but I have always been a bit on the colour maniac spectrum. I don't believe I have painted or wore beige/camel/taupe/brown in my whole life...although I am partial to grey/ochre combos.

I have never had to co-ordinate with a house, mxk3 cos mine is a sort of buff brick but is nowhere visible because of plants (the house wall facing the garden is all glass)...and there is no building (or hard landscape) at the allotment. I did used to be quite fussy as a working gardener though...often waffling pretentiously on about 'the vernacular' and 'genius loci' and such...but yeah, it's all a bit more freeform at mine.

I think a mixed approach woks best for me

I love to add grasses or upright perennials for (almost) year round structure. For many evergreens the summers tend to be too dry and sometimes the winters too harsh.

I do combine colors,

when using tulips (in public plantings) I go for the darwin hybrids as they are tough as nails and bring so much color,

and love to combine the pink-rose-lilac-purple palette with some cheery orange or yellows- if not overdone the cold and warm colors create

a nice tension or contrast.

I do like yellow and use it sometimes,

but in the end all the plants have to be resilient and grow

so out went the Helenium, the Phlox paniculata, some Asters

some of the Helianthus work for me, and combined with some Bistorta amplexicaule their red and yellow contrast nicely.

I have designed a planting a while ago which relied heavily on Bistorta amplexicaule, and among others added some Geranium Rozanne for the early summer

totally forgot about its long blooming time, so now there are some soso-violet-dark red combinations

I think really worked through color schemes tend to be theoretical or rely on a lot of regulating maintenance, some of Gertrud Jekylls plantings (I studied a planting plan in an old book) would definetely not work in our region.

and on the other hand I like it when the gardens goes from purple-light blue-pink in early summer

to a different color scheme in fall- with lots of yellow, brown from grasses or red from ornamental Malus and stuff

and I personally find the only-white brigade really tirsome

white is the absence of color and

more often than not the white cultivars have less oomph than their colorfull siblings

it is nice to mixe in white, for "diluting" or for contrast or in a shady spot, but colorfull flowers are so lovely

I’m with @beesandblues88_z7a…I like bright yellows, bright pinks, and bright blues/purples…no pale colors for me. I also like whites mixed in, and some oranges, depending in the shade. I very much like a cottage garden look.

I'm one of those no yellow, red or orange people (my daffodils are white and my mums are pink). My dislike of yellow extends to plants with golden foliage. Bees like blue flowers and I do too so I fell into pollinator gardening LOL. I like to use a lot of white flowers because they glow in the early morning and evening light - the times when most homeowners are at home viewing their gardens. I'd love to use more silver foliage plants but my climate is vexing: each fourth or fifth year is especially rainy which ruins the xeric plants. So I've got blue, purple, pink and white flowers against green, blue green and silver foliage.

I'm definitely not a formal garden type of gal. The more color mix the better. I don't like rows of the same plants/shrubs/color. When I spred annual seeds in the spring all the different varieties of seeds get mixed together before planting. I use mostly impatiens for hanging pots and they are always mixed color.

No colour is off limits for me, I like and use them all. The garden palette changes with the season and spring tends to be softer than summer and fall. I am with Lin on the use of grasses that can act as a foil to any planting.

I plant what I like and do not follow any ones rules no matter how revered. I do think though that we discover after the fact in my case that we are influenced by some of the greats (I did not have any design books until well after I had begun). I call my gardens an organized riot.

I adore orange with blue or dark purple. The only combo that does not work for me is school bus yellow with pink.

I don't really think about the bloom colors much but at some point in the year, I have just about every color of bloom. I'm more about interesting foliage since flowers come and go. I don't have any plants that are boring when not blooming unless they have nectar in the blooms, which tend to be smaller and less noticeable. My garden is for me and the hummingbirds and other critters who visit and I never consider what anyone else might think about it.

I once had a yard done in all white and blues, went well with the traditional style house. My current home is a very modern MCM , I still use alot of white flowers along with deep green & lime green , somehow seems to suit the style of my home.

I always say I'm definitely a pink/purple gardener, and while those are still my favorites (with some yellows thrown in) I find myself expanding my color palette over the last few years.

I remember YEARS ago getting an orange phlox via mail order by mistake (was supposed to be a pink variety) and I actually said to the rep on the phone, "why on earth would anyone order an orange anything?!" LOL. Well, then I started selling bouquets at the farmers market, and discovered orange zinnias in particular and other orange blooms, especially beautiful in fall arrangements, and I said, okay, let's have a limited area for orange flowers - and red ones. Like cearbhaill, I'm not a fan of red blooms overall. I keep telling myself I should at least have one classic red rose, but haven't gotten around to it yet. But now I have my red/yellow/orange bed, which is still mostly yellow and orange, (LOVE my rudbeckias!) although this year my new red monarda looked great and I scattered red zinnias in there as as well. Oh, and Chicago Apache daylily, which I bought at a supermarket of all places, lol, when it stopped me dead in my tracks as I crossed the parking lot!

I have a lot of shade and while I'm not a real fan of white gardens, I do like to use white blooms in the shade, although I usually do that through annuals. This year was the first year in almost a decade I finally resumed buying white impatiens to edge the shade beds (after that sad mildew situation) and also in my sunnier areas I have white cosmos and white dahlias.

In terms of foliage I do like to mix darker greens and or blues with chartreuse, especially in shade, and I like the chartreuse paired with purplish/burgundy foliage. I've been concentrating more on foliage the last two years as I transition my garden to a shrub-heavier garden.

But when it comes to blooms, my heart still belongs to the pink/purple combos. And I do have a terrible weakness for apricot-colored roses (with purple companion plantings of course!) Apricot roses, along with variegated hostas, are, to me, the little black dress of the garden world - you can never have too many!

:)

Dee

Greens and whites are classic, aren't they K? So serene.

Ah yes, apricot roses - I also have a couple of these - Crepuscule, Leontine Gervaise, Meg, Claire Rennaissance, I have banged on continuously about this years favourite plant (sphaeralcea ambigua) which is also a warm, coppery orange. I do generally gravitate towards the hotter side of the spectrum.

Like you, Dee, I have been paying a bit more attention to foliage. It has taken me a while to really appreciate the value of (the many shades of) green. I have an especial fondness for the glaucous tones - the euphorbias, fescues, plectranthus, senecio and artemisia...which seem to flash so well against bronze, plum, coppers. At this time of the year, this sort of colour scheme is a reliable delight. Plus green always mitigates the worst choices - I would be far more p nauseated by the unfortunate buttercup yellow, rosa.'Graham Thomas' with the clear pink of r.'Madame Gregoire Staechelin', without the subtle and elegant indigofera leaves (ambleyensis) and the saturated green of ceonothus.

Gotta rush, of to work...