You can paint treillage and garden furniture to match your house. Decking can also be used to unify a garden, when left to weather, it becomes a beautiful gray or it can be stained to match treillage, fences, gates and furniture in your garden. While a garden with flowers in a limited range of colors will feel unified, flowers are so fleeting that it is usually best to ignore them when focusing on unity. Lavender is an exception to this rule. Lavender flowers go with all other flowers except for the true blues.
Lavender is a much better blender than white.
If you want to separate colors, either white or lavender will work, but white stands out much more than lavender does. Lavender always recedes into the background, allowing other flowers to be focal points. If you are thoughtful about your garden s background colors, flowers can be the exuberant stars of your garden. You will able to ignore a lot of rules about color and indulge your love of flowers, while still having a garden that is a unified work of art. Garden Design is just one of the 28 different gardening topics you can visit here on Suite 101, covering everything from annuals to zucchini.