What is important to gardeners, is how colors clash with or complement one another and the distinction between warm and cool colors. Gardening with Color With a wide selection of annual flower colors available, you can change your color scheme from year to year. To create visually appealing and alluring gardens you must know how to effectively combine colors. The distinction between warm and cool colors is important to the gardener for several reasons. Here are some tips for selecting your color combinations.
Cool colors are good for close up viewing and warm colors are good for dramatic displays.
To the eye, cool colors tend to recede, and warm colors to advance. In practice, this means that cool colored flowers at the far end of the garden tend to disappear and warm colors stand out. Planting warm colored annuals around a warm area will make it seem even hotter. However, if you plant with plenty of cool green, blue, violet, and pastel colors, the area won't actually be any cooler, but it will seem so and be a more inviting place. Be careful of cool and warm color combinations.