Thanks Roy. I get asked all the time about colours so thought we should all take a spin on the colour wheel! Hope your green haven is looking fab and rewarding you for all your efforts! 🥷🤘🌿🎉
Thanks Lee, your garden is absolutely beautiful, lots of pops of colours,thanks for some great ideas,wet n windy here the gardens will be loving their nice drink, especially the brown lawns around here after the hot weather.happy gardening see you on tv soon, can't wait to see whats been designed for the new gardens, hope you win a few 😮xx🤗🌻🌼🏵️🌸 How are the bees doing?
Thanks Maria. You don’t even need to make massive changes sometimes. It’s just looking at the colours and seeing how they blend or clash. In some of my earlier gardening work I just used to move plants around for clients to make the colours work better. Keeping in mind the positions and conditions those plants like. 🥷🌿🤘
Great video Lee! We’ve just started figuring out planting in our garden, and we’re experimenting with opposite colours on the wheel in two separate flower beds by our patio. Currently started with yellow/orange & blue/violet in one, then red & green in the other. We’ll see how that goes! 🤞😂
Thanks Batsteve. It really does help to consider colour you can do some incredible things just moving plants around based on their colour too!! Do let me know how you get on on my online gardening forum here! www.gardenninja.co.uk/forum/ 🥷🤘🌿
Good explanation. Thanks! Just this year I solidified my colour scheme; it's good to have boundaries when choosing plants since there are so many beautiful options. Knowing what fits into your colour palette helps streamline plant shopping. I have an analogous palette and an anyways looking for more blue! I just bought a dwarf hydrangea (currently pink, but it'll be blue soon enough in my acidic soil).
Exactly. It’s not that you need to be completely rigid but by following the colour wheel say 90% of the time you can keep the garden looking cohesive! 🥷🤘🌿
Don't need to use it, I have it memorized and always apply it. (with the caveat of me being completely colourblind and have never seen a number in those balls)
I don't like this colour thing, it stems from cottage gardens where it's only very colorful flowers 3-6 months of the year, no grasses, little to no contrast of shapes and foliage. But if you do a naturalistic garden like Piet Oudolf, color doesn't matter much. There is so much contrast with the shapes etc... that it's enough. Also, this colour thing doesn't make sense because it supposes that a garden is only important when in flower... So why base your entire design based on summer or late spring flowering colours ? It's very limiting, which why the traditional cottage garden is boring at least 6 months of the year. And if you tried to apply this for ALL seasons, like trying to have complementary colors with asters and other autumn flowering plants, same thing with spring bulbs, etc... it would be an absolute nightmare to design the garden. This Oudolf idea of keeping the garden looking good even with dead flowers or flower stalks, and brown grasses, is a philosophy I much prefer.
Hi Nicolas. I think you maybe misinterpreting my approach. It’s not just about cottage gardens or annual plants but perennial displays. It’s about linking colour when things are in flower. It’s not about removing plants during the winter. In fact if you watch my other 200+ videos I’m all for leaving things throughout winter and focusing on form. I’ve never stated that the gardens only important in flower. But when it is it would make sense to have a plan with the use of colour. Using the colour wheel helps new gardeners from ending up with a miss match clash of plants. But if that’s your thing too then that’s fine! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🤘🌿
Nice to have you back Lee
Thanks Christopher! It’s good to be back doing my own vids again! 🥷🤘🌿
Garden is looking outstanding 👌
Thanks Parkers. It’s so dreamy right now even towards the end of the summer season! 🥷🤘🌿
A great explanation of the colourwheel as ever Lee,loving how ninja HQ is looking too🤟🏻
Thanks Roy. I get asked all the time about colours so thought we should all take a spin on the colour wheel! Hope your green haven is looking fab and rewarding you for all your efforts! 🥷🤘🌿🎉
@@Gardenninja I'm at the nursery as we speak,looking to next year🫣 ever the optimist 😆
Very interesting, thanks!😁👌
That looks very nice colourful gardens
Thanks! 🥷🌿🤘
Great explanation for using colour in the garden, will choose better flowers for the garden next year
Thank you!
You’re welcome. Least you now have a solid understanding of how different colours work together or in contrast to each other! 🥷🤘🌿
Thanks Lee, your garden is absolutely beautiful, lots of pops of colours,thanks for some great ideas,wet n windy here the gardens will be loving their nice drink, especially the brown lawns around here after the hot weather.happy gardening see you on tv soon, can't wait to see whats been designed for the new gardens, hope you win a few 😮xx🤗🌻🌼🏵️🌸
How are the bees doing?
Thats some good advice lee, gotta rethink my garden colours and refresh the boarder...trying to think ahead now 👍😃.
Thanks Maria. You don’t even need to make massive changes sometimes. It’s just looking at the colours and seeing how they blend or clash. In some of my earlier gardening work I just used to move plants around for clients to make the colours work better. Keeping in mind the positions and conditions those plants like. 🥷🌿🤘
@@Gardenninja thanks lee your advice is well noted.. 😁👍.
@@Gardenninja thanks lee your advice is well noted.. 😁👍.
Great video Lee! We’ve just started figuring out planting in our garden, and we’re experimenting with opposite colours on the wheel in two separate flower beds by our patio. Currently started with yellow/orange & blue/violet in one, then red & green in the other. We’ll see how that goes! 🤞😂
Thanks Batsteve. It really does help to consider colour you can do some incredible things just moving plants around based on their colour too!! Do let me know how you get on on my online gardening forum here! www.gardenninja.co.uk/forum/ 🥷🤘🌿
Good explanation. Thanks! Just this year I solidified my colour scheme; it's good to have boundaries when choosing plants since there are so many beautiful options. Knowing what fits into your colour palette helps streamline plant shopping. I have an analogous palette and an anyways looking for more blue! I just bought a dwarf hydrangea (currently pink, but it'll be blue soon enough in my acidic soil).
Exactly. It’s not that you need to be completely rigid but by following the colour wheel say 90% of the time you can keep the garden looking cohesive! 🥷🤘🌿
Good explanation.
Thanks mate! Hope you’re well? 🥷🌿🤘
@@Gardenninja rejigging parts of my cottage garden, building a new veg patch and creating dead hedges. Usual day to day things 🤣
Don't need to use it, I have it memorized and always apply it. (with the caveat of me being completely colourblind and have never seen a number in those balls)
@2:07 - a border in a border…🤣
Ten ninja points for spotting it!! 😂🥷🌞🐶🐶🐶
@@Gardenninja Border Terriers are the best. And only dog for me 😎
I don't like this colour thing, it stems from cottage gardens where it's only very colorful flowers 3-6 months of the year, no grasses, little to no contrast of shapes and foliage. But if you do a naturalistic garden like Piet Oudolf, color doesn't matter much. There is so much contrast with the shapes etc... that it's enough. Also, this colour thing doesn't make sense because it supposes that a garden is only important when in flower... So why base your entire design based on summer or late spring flowering colours ? It's very limiting, which why the traditional cottage garden is boring at least 6 months of the year. And if you tried to apply this for ALL seasons, like trying to have complementary colors with asters and other autumn flowering plants, same thing with spring bulbs, etc... it would be an absolute nightmare to design the garden. This Oudolf idea of keeping the garden looking good even with dead flowers or flower stalks, and brown grasses, is a philosophy I much prefer.
Hi Nicolas. I think you maybe misinterpreting my approach. It’s not just about cottage gardens or annual plants but perennial displays. It’s about linking colour when things are in flower. It’s not about removing plants during the winter. In fact if you watch my other 200+ videos I’m all for leaving things throughout winter and focusing on form. I’ve never stated that the gardens only important in flower. But when it is it would make sense to have a plan with the use of colour. Using the colour wheel helps new gardeners from ending up with a miss match clash of plants. But if that’s your thing too then that’s fine! Happy gardening. Lee 🥷🤘🌿