Secrets of acolourful garden

A heavenly flower border is a work of art, a living composition in which colour themes are finely balanced to wax and wane through the seasons

There is more to an attractive garden than simply planting striking blooms. Incorporating colour into the bones of your design provides year-round vibrancy and ensures there’s always something to catch the eye

Colour-drench your plot all summer using a shrewd selection of splashy bedding plants

Even if you’re confident about creating a colour palette, rules are there to be broken, says Joe Swift

Unless you are a ‘foliagephile’, or insist on displaying nothing but cool blues or sunset tones of red, orange and yellow, you are almost certainly growing one or probably more plants in your garden w

Try these uplifting colour palettes to bring a feel-good summery vibe into your home