Red As A Focal Point In A Garden

Red as a focal point in a garden can create a new existing look. This color family has many different tones, and you can use different shades to enhance your landscape area. Theme colored gardens can generate your very own personality outside. If you are looking to achieve a new look, think about planting a specific color and accent that color with solid evergreen trees and shrubs. Many trees and shrubs such as Arborvitaes and the Cypress family, will entice red color shrubs and flowers to become the dominant showcase of a landscape area.

One of your first goals when planning any one or two color garden, is to think about when plant specimens bloom, or have their peak color. Plan on different spring, summer, fall and winter plants. If you live in a colder geographic location, evergreens are wonderful for those dreary winter months. When doing a color theme base garden, think about what you associate with that particular color. This color can mean formal, passion, and an older more traditional look. One thing I do recommend to my clients, is not to totallysaturate your landscape with too many shades of that one color. Let one tone dominant and accent other shades throughout the garden. Think about adding some outdoor features that will match the color base garden. A couple of hummingbird feeders will work wonders in enhancing this particular color garden.

Hummingbird Feeder

Hummingbirds are attracted to a variety of this color tone flowers. Know that flowers will work in your climate as well as the evergreen and other colorful matching shrubs. Below are a few photos of some different plants you might be able to use in this particular colored garden.

Knockout Roses

Knockout Roses comes to life summer and into the early fall season. Can be a double bloom and one of the easiest rose bushes to maintain. The Knockout can be planted sporadically throughout a garden or in a series of three to five.

Mountain Fire Pieris Japonica

Mountain Fire Pieris Japonica is a wonderful evergreen shrub. The leaves begin turning color in fall, and throughout the winter months. Flowers appear in late winter and continue through the early part of spring.

Dynamite Crepe Myrtle

Dynamite Crepe Myrtle is a dwarf in the Myrtle family. Its pulsating color hits prime time in the summer months. A great specimen to plant along a driveway or roadside. This tree can also do well in a garden near the backdrop area, and surround it with a few evergreen trees.

Nandinas And Berries

Nandinas are another fall and winter beauty. In the autumn when the summer heat leaves, the leaves begin turning from green to a rich red tone and remain throughout the winter months.

Bottle Brush

Bottle Brush unique looking shrub and makes it debut in the summer months. Butterflies are attracted to this beauty and makes a wonderful accent plant in this color base garden.

Camilla

Camellias one of the most beautiful shrubs in the late fall and throughout the winter and early spring months. There are many different varieties and both the Sasquana and Japonica families provide ample amount of color in the cooler months. The Sasquanas will bloom first and followed by the Japonicas. The Yultide will bloom around the Christmas holidays.

Burning Bush

Burning Bush shrub has green leaves from spring throughout the fall. As the air turns cooler, the leaves turn into a deep color until they fall off. Excellent specie next to some solid evergreens.

Each of these species above show off their colors at different times of the year. There are many annual and perennial flowers that will also enlighten this color base garden. Look in your own area and find what is available, and when each flower blooms. Many of the photos above appear in the gallery of plants, or the variety of more plants section. You can get more information on these plant specimens.

Creating a red theme base garden, you have wonderful different varieties of plant specimens to choose from. Take the time to plan this type of garden and your property can be transformed in a beautiful and exciting new landscape.