Contemporary Color in the Landscape by Andrew Wilson

Author:Andrew Wilson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2011-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Designer Tom Stuart-Smith is a master at creating soft color tapestries in his ornamental meadows. In this garden, the chartreuse of Tellima spikes caught in evening sun provides a unifying base for pink geraniums, blue irises, and white foxgloves to perform beneath a multistem Cornus kousa. The dark blue-green slate of the pool edge contributes to the dreamlike quality of this space.

Green will link with chartreuse, and acid limes will sparkle like fresh highlights in front of shades of dark olive and black-green. Spring is embodied with fresh fern green foliage, but blue additions create richer and quieter glaucous tones or edge into the greenturquoise range to refresh and enliven compositions. Hellebores and astrantias flower in these green tones, with Galanthus providing delicate nodding heads of white tinged with emerald veining. Euphorbias and viburnums also provide green flower color in an acid range. Or Alchemilla mollis, Tiarella, and Mathiasella bupleuroides ‘Green Dream’ provide a ground cover spread to echo the color.

Orange is perhaps the most expressive of the admixtures: warm and intoxicatingly spicy in its middle tones but varying between the red spectrum and increasing heat in the earthy tones of terra-cotta and ochre. The browns often echo these warm tones into darker shades to give glowing depths to these color compositions. In some foliage, the orange hints persist: the leaves of Rodgersia have this tone as do the fine glossy leaves of Anemanthele lessoniana. Ricinus or euphorbias such as Euphorbia griffithii ‘Fireglow’ carry these somewhat muddy colors in their leaves but will achieve graceful acquiescence when paired with brilliant flowers.

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