monochrome color schemes
If you have a cottage garden, like I do, you might as well skip this article because those, by their very nature, are incompatible with the one color design.
Monochrome color schemes are very dramatic, especially if the flower color of choice is intense and unusual. White gardens are a classic because white flowers really pop in the shade and can also be enjoyed at night, provided the garden is well lit.
A single color scheme has to be designed as such from the beginning, you can’t force an established perennial border into it, in fact it is easier done with annuals. Among other challenges, the gardener has to match not only the color itself, but also its hue, otherwise the effect will not be achieved.
My garden tends to shift towards the purple range, magenta, to be specific, so I’ll include a quick list of perennials that would work for this color scheme as an example: hellebores, garden phlox, dead nettles, cranesbills, clematis, cone flowers, obedient plants, dahlias, alliums, foxgloves, lilacs, butterfly bush, tulips, Sweet Williams, wisterias, turtleheads. I’m sure there are a lot more plants, especially annuals like petunias, geraniums, verbenas and cosmos which can be used to fill the gaps between perennial bloom.
For landscape designers who have reached the pinnacle of sophistication, the green on green monochrome scheme is the ultimate refinement, but I’ll leave that to the professionals.
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