Color-Blind Plant Combinations

Turning a weakness into a strength

Today we ’ve dumbfound some photos that Joe Hopkins sent in , along with selective information about the garden by Scott Dunlap .

Joe take that I get some data to you on the garden . We survive in Buffalo , New York , and are very involved in the annual eventGarden Walk Buffalo . We by and large get well over 2,000 visitors over the row of the two days . Joe plants over 150 tummy in the yard . Our home is on a distinctive city lot , very long and very narrow . Our private road butts up to our next - threshold neighbor ’s household , so bestow the pots allows for extra garden distance right on the blacktopping . People are generally offend when they happen out that section of the garden is all mountain . It work out very well .

One of the great challenge for Joe is that he has a major vividness deficiency . He is not quite color - blind , but it ’s very close . Somehow he has turn this into a plus . He is of course fearless when it comes tocolor combination . Colors that he can identify and that he likes are sprinkled throughout the garden , bringing it consistence . His color inadequacy also forces him to focus on value and texture rather than the color themselves . For good example , he has a passion for the texture and values in flame nettle . He drop a great deal of his summer searching for new and different multifariousness . Friends who own a greenhouse just south of Buffalo have dubbed him “ the Coleus Man . ”

Joe has also build some amazing outside sustenance areas into the yard . Again , on the blacktopping he made a beautiful living sphere with a carpeting , seating area , and umbrella all surrounded by a beautiful paries of potted works . Just past the living area is the dining field , again fence by a hold out wall of potted plant . It is astonishing that such a pocket-sized yard has so much to declare oneself .

horticulture is Joe ’s mania . It is what keeps him going . His passion is moderately transmittable , as he has given the bug to several friends and congeneric .

The lush garden create on the driveway by countless pots .

This whole garden seating room region is packed with industrial plant , all incontainers , all on the surface of the driveway .

This is what the very same space look like in winter when the jackpot are all empty , hold off for warm weather and clock time for planting . What a transformation !

Varieties of coleus bring lots of colour and texture .

The dingy leaves and lightyellowflowers of this Dahlia pinnata ( zone 8–11 or as a tender medulla ) make a striking dividing line whether you are colour - unsighted or not .

High contrastof colored and light leaves in a wide-cut range of texture makes this container glint .

One last view of this wildly beautiful and creative garden .

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