5 Ways to Refresh Your Gardens with Spring Color Installation
How to revive your landscape with spring color
Patio weather has enveloped North Texas and we’re relishing being outdoors as much as possible. This treasured window offers the opportunity to revel in the sunshine and soft breeze as we recline with a good book, enjoy coffee on the veranda, or remove the grill cover to cook an outdoor meal. However, as warmer temperatures arrive, one of the first things we notice is the lackluster landscape surrounding us. So, pour a refreshing beverage, dust off a lounge chair, and soak up some fresh garden inspiration with these spring color installation ideas.
Pastel hydrangeas soften the lines of this romantic garden bed, evoking a soothing, natural ambiance.
1. Flower Bed Designs
Taller snapdragons create dimension in this dreamy, monochromatic layered garden bed.
- Layered Beds: By incorporating a mix of blooms at different heights, we can create alluring dimension and texture. Begin with taller lantanas or salvias in the back, and add petunias or poppies in the next row, followed by lower-growing flowers like alyssum or sedum in front.
- Color Blocks: Arrange blooms by color to achieve varying effects. Experiment with different color harmonies to evoke an assortment of emotions. For example, a high contrast, complementary palette such as the classic iris paired with yellow daffodils creates drama and intrigue, whereas tints of monochromatic, pastel hydrangeas produce a romantic vibe.
One can’t help but smile when surrounded by vibrant, cheerful poppies.
- Seasonal Swaps: Our regular garden care packages bring simplicity to seasonal color swaps. For instance, we can switch out your winter pansies with vivid spring poppies until the summer heats up for hardy zinnias.
2. Container Gardens
One of our favorite ways to fashion flora that transitions through the seasons is by using container gardens. Whether you like to vary your decor by the season or change your favorite plants as frequently as your wardrobe, container gardens provide a fabulously flexible solution. Not only do they enliven your landscape with unique color and texture combinations, but they offer practical solutions to numerous garden challenges.
Pool Landscaping
Accent a simple pool with elegant planters for a striking, luxurious dynamic.
Water Features
Enhance the tranquility of ponds, fountains, and water features by surrounding them with colorful plants or greenery.
Container Clusters
One of our landscape designers’ favorite trends of the year is to arrange containers in clusters for increased variety, portability, and flexibility in design.
Hanging Baskets
Add an extra layer of lush greenery or annuals with hanging baskets. Increasing height can not only add a lush extra layer to your gardens, but it can also provide additional privacy.
3. Accent Areas
Any area can be transformed into a delightful garden surprise with a spring color installation. Highlight a favorite tree by planting in rings or utilize borders to to guide visitors down a pathway. Accentuate a bench, dining area, or seating with colorful blooms to usher in an experience or frame an outdoor room.
These vibrant containers and pathway border create an inviting walkway for visitors.
4. Vertical Gardens
Utilize climbing flowers like trumpet vine or honeysuckle for vertical color to enhance the beauty of arbors, trellises, or pergolas. This is also an excellent method of instilling privacy while adding posh color.
5. Native & Pollinator-Friendly Garden
Making conscious plant choices is crucial to feeding our pollinators. Selecting native, flowering plants that provide pollen and/or nectar in a variety of shapes and colors will attract diversity in pollinators. Scattering Texas Wildflower seeds like black-eyed Susans, bluebonnets, and Indian paintbrush create a lush meadow for a natural look. To provide supple sources of food for bees and butterflies, try adding zinnias, cosmos, and sunflowers. Other choices are salvia, lantana, or pentas. Don’t forget Milkweed for our endangered Monarch butterflies!
Schedule Your Spring Color Installation
For over forty years, Bonick has been embellishing some of the most elegant gardens in prestigious neighborhoods of DFW. Entrusted by discerning homeowners and Dallas architects and designers, our trained team possesses the foresight to anticipate the evolution of every design. Contact us to create clever combinations of spring color to highlight your gardens before the spring rush accumulates.
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