The planter’s palette

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

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

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

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

A major part of my gardening joy is visual, and as my knowledge and observational powers have improved over decades of gardening, so has my love of experimenting with colour schemes. When I first came