The iceland Poppy is a great fall annual, sprouting up randoml...
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Basics Design - All Color Growers Nursery, inc.
1. Be careful when using two strong colors together, last year we saw red petunias coupled with yellow gold pansy, instead of being pleasing to the eye the two strong colors tend to fight for attention and the overall feel as one of discord. It would have been better to do a single bed of yellow then one of red, the one of yellow etc. Down the row.
2. If you are working with people that like lots of different colors and want to enjoy all the different colors and textures available go with Winter Garden Mix. See Basic #3.
3. Even when using something like the winter garden mix try to get a predominate color that helps pull it all together by bordering with white alyssum. Then plant a row of yellow pansy and include extra yellow snapdragons in the mix. Or you could border with rose lobelia and use extra rose, pink, burgundy petunia with extra rose, pink, and burgundy snapdragon.
4. Where possible use a color scheme in which everything planted is pulled together by a predominate color or shades of a color. For example if you are using red geranium is some beds use a lot of red in your petunia mix in other beds, this will give the whole scheme a planned feel.
5. Just a general tip, if using white or lilac petunia as individual colors with other petunia we would suggest not to use them as a border, rather put them behind the other colors as they are more vigorous and tend to grow taller than other petunia colors. We say this because we have seen some flower beds with very attractive mix of red and pink petunia with white in front, once they were established all you could see were white petunia as they out grew the reds and pinks.
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