Colour me happy: How to add a coordinated splash of colour to your garden

You know right away when you've got the colours in a garden wrong. Here are just some wrong things from my personal album: the deep 1960s purple of an allium, making an adjacent rose in fine-toned pink just look ill; and what about two white flowers next to each other, one rendering the other the shade of the nicotine-stained ceiling of an unrevamped pub? Or finally, daffodils in spring, over-the-top yellow, drowning out the dreamy blue of camassias? Wrong, wrong, all wrong.







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