Just to be 'awkward' I'm the 1 in 200 women who's colour blind. So my concept of what makes a good 'garden palette' is probably not what the other 199 women would think. I see nothing wrong with wearing a purple top with a red skirt for example
I've been planting my garden with plants that mainly come in different colours, such as hollyhocks, gladioli, dahlias, I'm not always a lover of one colour varieties. I'm very partial to gardens that show a riot of colour. I guess my planting priority is to plant in drifts of odd numbers of the same plant, and then size then plays a part.
Did read somewhere that colour blind people are not partial to variated plants, I can agree with that.
Basically in my garden 'anything' goes so long as it's interesting and it likes where it's planted.
Wildlife/Cottage is closest but with all sorts of odd plants grown from seed and obtained from specialist nurseries. I am incapable of planning and design, it just sort of grew, dictated by level changes and big trees.
Definitely cottage for me. Although not truly as I don't grow veg among the flowers. But I do have a veg patch - where a few flowers also grow so that counts!
I arrange my plants in groups and repeating patterns, and stick to the 7 colours Monty rule
Mine is cottagey, but very much pink, white, blue and purple. I have one small border that is reds and yellows, but anywhere else in the garden I hoik them out (other than bulbs in spring).
Its not that im averse to them, it’s just think the rest of the garden looks better without them, as they inevitably draw the eye and stand out like a sore thumb
Everything in pots and troughs here so I can move most around to what I “like” a a particular moment. This year I have liberally sprinkled around mixed wildflower seeds, so I guess I’ll get a rainbow 😂
Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
None of the above, but cottage garden is closest in that the planting is packed with lots of different things and generally consists of poking things in where there's a space. Plus lots of random self-sowers.
I have broad colour schemes but I'm not too particular about them: back is blues, yellows and whites but there's a bit of peach/orange, front is mostly purples, hot pinks and the crimson end of red with a fair bit of dark foliage, corner part has mostly lighter mauves, pinks and blues, whites, and silver foliage but there's also some of purple (inc. foliage) and crimson so it's not too wishy-washy.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
I don't think it was Monty who came up with the idea of a few plants repeated. It's a design idea if people want to pull to coherence and to draw the eye around the space.
I am like others above. I spent ten years experimenting and learning about plants and my own taste. My garden has now settled into cottage/wildlife garden with lots of roses, but I have used repeated elements and colours to bounce the eye around. One foxglove or one thalictrum might like a little 'bitty'. Plus, as I learn what I love, I tend to want more of that thing. I do tend to buy in threes.
My main love is for dark red, so I started with that and built around it. I didn't find it easy to match with but it's getting easier. The back garden has elements of cream, white, blue, dark raspberry, touches of apricot, plum and pops of other things. Hardly any full purple, lime or orange. The small front garden is more of a mash up - with any flower that can survive the slugs and dry partial shade.
I like to have an "alive looking" garden in winter and have mainly evergreens of different shades of green, leaf shapes and habits, plus ornamental grasses. I don't grow any annuals, only a narrow range of perennials and bulbs to add colour during the growing season. I restrict my colours mainly to blue, purple, white, orange and lime green - I'm not sure why but they seem to fit more comfortably with green. However, I allow any bright colour for tulips to celebrate spring!
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I've been planting my garden with plants that mainly come in different colours, such as hollyhocks, gladioli, dahlias, I'm not always a lover of one colour varieties. I'm very partial to gardens that show a riot of colour. I guess my planting priority is to plant in drifts of odd numbers of the same plant, and then size then plays a part.
Did read somewhere that colour blind people are not partial to variated plants, I can agree with that.
Basically in my garden 'anything' goes so long as it's interesting and it likes where it's planted.
Cambridgeshire/Norfolk border.
In the sticks near Peterborough