Colour in the Garden

There are many plant and leaf details, and photographers just cannot resist taking close up shots of these. Often these will show a more artistic composition than the regulation garden border photos can. Here the elements of light, pattern and colour can feature, without needing to know what the plant actually is.

Colours in the garden can be very subjective, and books claim that men and women see colours very differently. Traditionally garden colours have been fully analysed, and to some gardeners colour wheels are as important as spades and compost.

Bright Pink Hollyhock...: This bright pink hollyhock grows behind my garden glass-house. What a wonderful flower colour!
Cherry Dahlia and Rose...: The yellow Graham Thomas rose has always enjoyed the late summer company of a cherry red dahlia.
Wisteria Flowers...: Wisteria fills the house patio with flowery fragrance each spring. Later it provides green leafy summer shade.
Buddleia in Flower...: Buddleia are easy shrubs and provide great mid summer colour.
Canna Tropicana...: Incredible colour detail with the sun shining through the canna leaf
David and Goliath...: Look at the contrast in size and scale between these pot mates.
Blue and Pink...: Hydrangeas are wonderful for the colour changes that occur in Autumn, even on the same bush.
More Green...: Intricate veins on an unknown green leaf
Daisy...: The simplest designs are often the most effective, as this white daisy shows.
Silver Cinneraria...: A close up detail of the lacy looking silver cinneraria, which I grow as a perennial.
Blue Agastache...: These annuals are invaluable for their spires of blue colour in mid summer. They smell of aniseed.
Lilac Cosmos...: Cosmos is one of the easiest annuals to grow, and one which never disappoints.
Green...: Intersecting lines in a shiny green leaf
Achillea...: Beautiful orange ochre shades and a tidy growth habit make Achillea Feuerland one of the best.
Echinops Ritro...: They may look like thistles, but there perennials are no weeds.
Pink and Magenta...: Tones of pink and magenta glow in this close up photograph of a dahlia flower.
Assorted Succulents...: These are a group of succulents which I grow in pots on the house patio.
Unknown Sedum...: This sedum lives in a pot on the patio steps.

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