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14 Comments
A great explanation of the colourwheel as ever Lee,loving how ninja HQ is looking too🤟🏻
Very interesting, thanks!😁👌
Garden is looking outstanding 👌
Good explanation. Thanks! Just this year I solidified my colour scheme; it's good to have boundaries when choosing plants since there are so many beautiful options. Knowing what fits into your colour palette helps streamline plant shopping. I have an analogous palette and an anyways looking for more blue! I just bought a dwarf hydrangea (currently pink, but it'll be blue soon enough in my acidic soil).
Great explanation for using colour in the garden, will choose better flowers for the garden next year
Thank you!
I don't like this colour thing, it stems from cottage gardens where it's only very colorful flowers 3-6 months of the year, no grasses, little to no contrast of shapes and foliage. But if you do a naturalistic garden like Piet Oudolf, color doesn't matter much. There is so much contrast with the shapes etc… that it's enough. Also, this colour thing doesn't make sense because it supposes that a garden is only important when in flower… So why base your entire design based on summer or late spring flowering colours ? It's very limiting, which why the traditional cottage garden is boring at least 6 months of the year. And if you tried to apply this for ALL seasons, like trying to have complementary colors with asters and other autumn flowering plants, same thing with spring bulbs, etc… it would be an absolute nightmare to design the garden. This Oudolf idea of keeping the garden looking good even with dead flowers or flower stalks, and brown grasses, is a philosophy I much prefer.
Nice to have you back Lee
Thanks Lee, your garden is absolutely beautiful, lots of pops of colours,thanks for some great ideas,wet n windy here the gardens will be loving their nice drink, especially the brown lawns around here after the hot weather.happy gardening see you on tv soon, can't wait to see whats been designed for the new gardens, hope you win a few 😮xx🤗🌻🌼🏵️🌸
How are the bees doing?
Don't need to use it, I have it memorized and always apply it. (with the caveat of me being completely colourblind and have never seen a number in those balls)
That looks very nice colourful gardens
Great video Lee! We’ve just started figuring out planting in our garden, and we’re experimenting with opposite colours on the wheel in two separate flower beds by our patio. Currently started with yellow/orange & blue/violet in one, then red & green in the other. We’ll see how that goes! 🤞😂
@2:07 – a border in a border…🤣
Thats some good advice lee, gotta rethink my garden colours and refresh the boarder…trying to think ahead now 👍😃.
Good explanation.