I personally like bright colours and stark contrasts,
but I also have a soft spot for subtlety. That doesn't mean I appreciate pastel
colours, but rather inventive combinations of cooler colours like for instance
blue, mauve, purple, violet and white. I don't know if there is any research
regarding personality and the colour choice in planting up window boxes, but I
associate subtle combination with gentler souls, who have no need for making an
outward statement.
Pure white flowers combined make for subtle floral
displays. On the rights white petunias gleam against an off-white rendered
wall. On the left a window box is filled with Solanum jasminoides 'Album', a
scandent bush making long trails. On another balcony (middle) Felicia in soft
blue is combined with yellow Bidens and pots of pink pelargoniums.
The combination of white and purple is cool, but very
distinguished. Here a window box filled with two colours of Verbena (left). The
humble Aster also makes a nice pot plant. These mauve asters (middle) have been
treated to reduce growth to make for compact plants. The Fuchsia comes in many
shades, all variations of white, pink, salmon, purple-red and violet. Here a
subdued variety (right) with blooms in a combination of white and deep purple.
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