Show Your Colors – Using the Color Wheel in Your Garden
06 Apr 2015
The color wheel is a good tool for helping you pick colors for your garden.
![Kim Keech’s container garden uses colors and textures to create a dazzling potted display.](/wp-content/boulderhg/2015/04/show-colors_pots-221x300.jpg)
![Kim Keech’s small patio is awash in potted plants, contrasts and textures, from spiky and speckled to smooth and bumpy. She prefers pots filled with warm-toned plants because “if the plants are bright and colorful, it just makes me happy.”](/wp-content/boulderhg/2015/04/show-colors_lantana-225x300.jpg)
Hot and Cold
![Bruny likes to plant analogous palettes of purples and pinks, exemplified by her peonies, geraniums, delphiniums and roses.](/wp-content/boulderhg/2015/04/show-colors-pink-blue-300x225.jpg)
![Mary Lynn Bruny’s spring garden bursts with the cool tones of bearded iris, hardy geranium, lamb’s ear, catmint and barberry peony.](/wp-content/boulderhg/2015/04/show-colors-Spring-garden-300x200.jpg)
Paint with Pride
![Bruny’s fence garden sports clematis blooms in shades of pink and purple, red and pink roses, purple lavender and hot-pink dianthus.](/wp-content/boulderhg/2015/04/Show-colors-clematis-rose-daylilies-lavender-hot-pink-dianthus-300x225.jpg)
![Her shade garden relies on varied leaf textures for interest, including ‘Sem False’ spirea, which is three-toned in spring with pink, yellow and green leaves; purple sedum; yellow ‘Circus’ heuchera leaves with purple veins; white dead nettle; orange ‘Melton Fire’ potentilla; yellow cabbage; purple iris; green-and-yellow-leaved hostas; and pink bleeding hearts.](/wp-content/boulderhg/2015/04/show-colors-Shade-garden-300x200.jpg)
![Bruny plants for fall color as well, with ‘Autumn Blaze’ maples at the rear of this path, columnar yellow-leaved buckthorns along the fence, and ‘Carol Macky’ daphnes, viburnum, Japanese maple and yellow peony to the left of the path. The ‘Rockspray’ cotoneaster on the right has handsome red berries in fall.](/wp-content/boulderhg/2015/04/show-colors-path-225x300.jpg)