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Blaze Of Color:
Consisting mainly of shrubs, this planting is a low-maintenance solution for a busy family. With a blaze of color, this garden is planted with shrubs that thrive in poor soil conditions. The emphasis is on rhododendrons, azaleas, and other acid-tolerant plants. The chosen plants, all grouped around the lawn, provide color and interest all the year around. The shrubs are interplanted with low-growing perennials and annuals for summer performance. The raised cultivation beds are arranged in an informal, asymmetrical layout to disguise the squareness of the plot.A blaze of all the colors of the rainbow is difficult to absorb all at once: much better to group the plants in types of color, and merge each into the one adjacent to it. Pink, purple, rose, gray, lavender, blue, and lilac make one group; and yellow, cream, orange, bronze, brown, and light red another. The reds will graduate into shades of rose, lavender and so to blue; or on the opposite side into scarlet, vermilion, flame, and finally yellow. Gray-leafed and white-flowered plants will calm down the brighter colors, and mix beautifully with muted shades. Another way of breaking up blocks of color is to introduce leafy plants. There are many species whose leaves are handsome in shape, agreeable in color and pleasing in texture. These deserve a place in the garden in their own right.
Q Select the paint color for the background and paint the walls. Next, choose the color for your top coat. If you are working with an oil-based eggshell paint you will need to thin it (3 parts top color to 1 part mineral spirits). Choose a top coat color that is either close in tone or contrasts with your Wall color. With dry-brushing, you can cover the background color completely, so your top coat is the color you will see on your finished walls.
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