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Flaming Gardens
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15308 |
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LIFE
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8 / 1989 |
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Virginia Greiner
Virginia Greiner writes a weekly gardening column for the
Washington Times. |
How can you set your garden on fire? With imagination and planning, anyone can have a bonfire of color to warm up the landscape year-round.
Red is the obvious choice to add a fiery note, augmented with the sizzle of orange and yellow. Known by artists and designers as warm colors, in contrast to the cool blues and greens of the color wheel, these hues produce fireworks in the garden, in many ways and in all seasons.
Spring- and summer-blooming flowers probably make the quickest and most dramatic bursts of fire. But don't overlook the use of shrubs and trees with burnished fruits and blazing foliage in the fall; plants with red twigs, stems, bark, or berries in the winter; and brilliantly colored flowering shrubs, trees, and bulbs in the spring. There are also flaming red vines to cover walls or fences, crimson ground covers to creep over bare spots, evergreens that look ever-red with year-round crimson leaves, and wildflowers that glow like embers even in moist woodland settings.
Hot licks in summer
Even in summer or in hot, arid climates, it makes sense to build a fire in the garden. Masses of crimson, yellow, or orange varieties of annuals and perennials glowing in the summer sun will emphasize the coolness of a nearby shaded patio. A stretch of velvety lawn will look greener and more refreshing when a broad, curving bed of fiery bloom cuts through it like a river of hot lava. Used as single accents, brilliant reds become hot licks of fire that enliven a cool green or all-white
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