COLOUR BLENDING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 October 1940, Page 9

COLOUR BLENDING

IMPORTANT IN GARDEN. ' Carefully considered colour blending is just as important in the garden as seed sowing, mowing the lawn or any other job. A display that should be a delightful feature can be ruined by placing the colours wrongly. Consider first, the colours which have an eternal grudge against one another. Orange and pink come first; these simply bristle with enmity. Red and pink are two more combatants and they make a border a battlefield. Magenta, itself a pretty shade, is argumentative with red, pink, orange or blue.

Cream and white are the only two colcurs which go with magenta and they look very tasteful indeed. Red and dull purple look sullen, while orange and apricot are not at all happy, unless the latter is deep and the former very pale. As the colour range is so wide, there is no reason why these shades, which take such objection to each other’s company should be brought together. Make your associations of those colours which blend happily—pink and white, blue and pink yellow and pink, blue and orange, mauve and orange, purple and orange and pink and mauve. If you are in doubt as to whether two colours are just right, put white between them. If you decide to make up a bed of red and white and you place white in the centre, it will not be nearly as effective as if the red occupied that position. The deepest shade should always be in the middle of the bed or at the back of the border, so that a paler shade is shown on a background which will reveal its charms. Incidentally, the deeper shade benefits! by the contrast.