Comments on: What We Can Learn from Olympic Women’s Basketball, and Color Theory in the Garden

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:30:53 +0000

Fascinating stuff. What I'm noticing more in small private gardens on the West Coast is plants grown less for flower color and more for texture, pattern, movement, scent, with brilliant color coming from pottery and furniture, like Fermob chairs in lime green, dayglo orange. What a huge subject, thanks for the back story.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 07:52:59 +0000

As a matter of fact, I think that orange and raspberry sherbet look very well together, both as a dessert course and in the garden. The truth is that virtually any colors can be made to go together. it is all a matter of proportion, repetition, and context (not to mention saturation and hue).

Incidentally, Russell Page was another great British gardener who liked to insert a bit of color "clash" to keep things interesting. — Ellen

By: HELENE

HELENE — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:05:57 +0000

Lots of interesting points to grab hold of here, but as a keen gardener, a graphic designer and living in Britain I almost feel the need to ask a stupid question…is it true that Americans don’t plant red and blue flowers together?? On a more serious note, you need to know the rules in order to break them, and the experienced gardener knows when to break the rules too. That was what Christopher Lloyd, a well known English gardener who died just recently was most famous for.