Whether you add it with foliage, flowers or focal points, your garden needs color in each season. Here are some color trends for this year’s landscaping.
Flower Power!
Deep purples, metallic colors, and lime greens are bold colors in landscaping this year, while bright yellows, deep reds and hot pinks are always welcome.
Wildflowers blossom throughout the year in Central Texas, and the Texas bluebonnets are a popular tourist attraction. They’re a great example of flowers that require little maintenance and bloom spectacularly year after year. Using plants that are adapted to the climate in Central Texas allows you to spend less time watering and more time enjoying.
Reds
Flame acanthus flowers are a wonderful red-orange color and make a hot spot in your landscape. They attract hummingbirds almost as readily as they draw our own eyes. They do just fine with no watering, but a little splash now and then causes them to bloom prolifically. Cedar Sage is another hummingbird magnet that produces beautiful red flowers all summer long, and it will do well in shade or full sun. Texas betony, one of Texas’ prettiest native flowers, also attracts hummingbirds. It has deep scarlet flowers and blooms from spring through autumn.
Purples
The purple skullcap is a tough native flower that grows with no attention required. It blooms from spring through summer. Fall aster blooms later, producing a wild profusion of glorious purple flowers as autumn rolls by. Purple coneflowers are tall and showy, but they usually won’t bloom until the second year. Purple sage, a staple in almost every western ever written, is a flowering plant of the genus salvia. When there are only a few of these wildflowers around, they don’t look like much. When you face a mass planting of blooming purple sage in a field, however, they are quite a sight.
Yellows
Black-eyed Susan flowers are a yellow cousin to the purple coneflower. Copper canyon daisies are an especially bright yellow, and they flower in both the spring and the fall. There are also many lantanas and coreopsis flowers to choose from with yellow or orange flowers.
“Leaf” It to Mother Nature
Flowers are only part of your colorful landscaping options with plants. Many plants provide interest throughout non-flowering times with brilliantly hued leaves or fruits. The American beautyberry bush, for example, stands out with small clusters of brilliant purple berries each fall. Cannas, sweet potato vines, and many new varieties of clumping grasses produce showy leaves of unique shades of green.
If you need help selecting plants that will do well in Central Texas and display the colors your landscaping needs, ABC Home & Commercial Services can help. Check out our website for information, including a free estimate.