Injected with the rule of 60-30-10 in the garden onto the garden.
Now plan to use basic design school managers to create a patriotic garden this summer, says Gwen Funk, Gwen Funk of the University of Missouri Extension.
“The design of your outdoor living space offers many opportunities for creativity,” says Funk. “You could think of themed garden, pots and hanging baskets,” she adds. “The use of a red, white and blue color scheme around your terrace or your deck could add a festive, accepting ambience.”
To select flowers for your beds and containers, follow the rule of 60-30-10 to select flowers for your beds and containers: Buy 60% of your flowers in a dominant color, 30% in a secondary color and 10% in an acknowledgment.
The dominant flower will be the anchor of your garden or container. It should be brave and draw the viewer's eye immediately. The secondary color supports the main attraction, and the accent improves the other two.
Sit red and blue on the opposite side of the color bike. In general landscape design, every color leaves more saturated and creates visual attraction, says Funk. Combining with a neutral white to create balance.
Red like the primary color creates a feeling of energy and firm, while blue creates a feeling of spaciousness and relaxation, she says. The choice of white as the main color creates a fascinating twilight moon garden, she says.
She adds design beds with local plants with the different climate conditions, local pollinators and songfing.
Funk suggests that these plants take into account:
Red flowers. Cardinal flower (cardinal) If you plant in the shade. The flower flowers prefer flowers and moist areas in July to October. Royal Catchfly (Silene directed) produces bright red star -shaped flowers and can bloom from May to September. Royal Catchfly prefers dry, well permeable, sunny places. The local red bee balm (Monarda Didyma) will support many pollinators and can attract hummingbirds.
Blue flowers. Blue Wild Indigo (Baptismal australis) is drought -tolerant and blooms in late spring. Blue star (Amsonia Illustrus) can withstand more shaded conditions. Both flowers have a full, scarce appearance and bloom late spring until early summer.
White flowers. New Jersey Tea (Ceanothus Americanus) is a low -growing, branched shrub, which can grow in a well -thought -out soil in partly shadows up to the full sun. Expect Bloom's late Semon until early summer. Another kind of baptism, baptism Alba or White Wild Indigo, has pure white flowers on high spines from May to July.
Other options such as red tinies are heat -tolerant and long -flowering. Red geraniums are suitable for containers or borders. White Shasta geese flower are a classic multi-year choice, while Alyssum offers low-growing fragrant flowers. Blue Salvia and Bachelor buttons complete the trio with blue flowers.
Think of the classic design principle of a “thriller, a filler and a spill” for hanging baskets and other containers, says Funk:
• A complete sun option may comprise red salvia or high blue dolphinium (thriller), white Petunias or white verbena (filler) and blue lobelia or blue gate (spill).
• A drought -tolerant combination is red geranium (thriller), White Angelonia or White Lantana (filler) or Blue Scaevola (Spiller).
• A colibri and pollinator can include the red bee balm (thriller), white Alyssum (filler) and Blue Bacopa (Spiller).
Find out more about “Container Gardening: Thriller, Filler and Spiller” https://extension.missouri.edu/news/container-garding-thrillers-fillers-and-spillers.
Photo: Flower carpet made of three colors of Petunias – red, blue, white. (IStock │ #1412834885 – my own photos)