Choosing plants that will bring blazing color to your garden

Two weeks ago, I wrote about being enamored with purple flowers and the feeling of calm their presence in the garden creates. I mentioned this was not by chance, since purple is an analogous color of green. On the color wheel, analogous colors are found at 90-degree angles to one another. Their combination has a soothing effect when we look at them together. Since the foliage of plants is invariably green, it makes sense that those with purple flowers would be easy on the eyes.

Pink and orange are also analogous colors. I mention them together since a number of species featuring orange or pink or both are thriving now in the fall garden. Let’s start with ornamental grasses that show off pink inflorescences at this time of year. In my own neighborhood, I recently witnessed a pyrotechnic er