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Design / Home Exterior Design Tips / Landscaping in Color

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We often focus on the house when planning an exterior color combination and forget to consider the surrounding environment. Leveraging the natural colors surrounding your home can either provide inspiration or actually tie into the color combination you are selecting. If you love red geraniums, make sure the colors you select for you home include red or colors that harmonize with red. This is especially important if you're making color selections at a time of year when you don't have these flowers planted because you'll tend to forget about them.
In this section The Effects of Color

Color Harmony

Landscaping in Color

Top Combinations

Complete Home Design

Tips for Using Color

Tips for Going Green

Seven Secrets

Effective Landscaping to Enhance Curb Appeal

Landscaping in Color

Curb appeal is the level at which people are drawn to your home as they pass by. Curb appeal is a critical component when you're trying to sell you home. You're trying to impress, stimulate interest and call-out your home's highlights in a matter of moments. This can most effectively be accomplished by using color. Keep in mind color includes both a home's exterior and the landscaping. Don't leave any element untouched, but at the same time don't go crazy trying to match everything perfectly.

Low Maintenance Plants

Not everyone has a green thumb, let alone the time to keep up an elaborate landscape. Here are a few low-maintenance solutions for landscaping in color. No landscape is ever maintenance-free, but using these perennials will hopefully make your gardening experience a little easier:

  • Peonies: Available in a variety of colors, these low-maintenance flowers grow best in shallow holes and left alone.

  • Hostas: Extremely low-maintenance and easy to transplant, the only problem with this summer perennial is that it attracts both deer and slugs.

  • Siberian Irises: With three color variations, Siberian irises provide a beautiful and textural contrast long after their early bloom.

  • Rhododendrons: Available in a variety of colors and sizes; plants with smaller leaves can tolerate more sunlight.

  • Armenia (or sea thrift): Can handle almost all climate conditions and resembles brightly colored bunches of grass.


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