How to Use Color in the Garden

Versatile violet, the coolest and darkest color, offers many options from spring to fall

Violet is made from adequate proportion of blue and red , and it looks it . From blue it gets its darkness , from violent , its plangency . The word violet descend from violette , the Old French name for Viola odorata , which has pocket-size , richly colored flower of this hue .

Although purpleness is often used as a equivalent word , we favor violet , which is how it ’s account on the color bicycle . With a breadth of rich hues that ladder the gamut from very well-nigh navy amobarbital sodium to almost crimson Bolshevik , this kinsfolk offers gardeners a generous pallette .

The various member of the violet house go together in perfect concordance and , with one exception , are welcome in any garden . The elision is the potent violent - violet , which we call magenta . It is an electrifying hue that lies somewhere between red - reddish blue and violet - ruby . While it is compatible with cool chromaticity and with member of its own tribe , the contrast with colors on the warm side of the spectrum is too powerful for most gardener .

Perennial flowers in all the dissimilar tint and shades of reddish blue are abundant from outflow through crepuscle .

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