Kay- Very nice color combinations. You have a beautiful garden :)

All my gardens have purple, lavender and white and most have light pink. I like to add some blue and yellow in most areas and even orange and red in the kitchen garden.

Most of my roses are pink or white, so the lavenders and purples go very well with them. One combination I love is purple butterfly bushes with pink/lavender coneflowers. The bees love them, too!

My favorite 'new' combination from this year is in each corner of the kitchen garden (sorry, no pictures, yet). I have a John Cabot rose (dark pink/red) with a purple butterfly bush on each side and catmint in front of the rose. It's a nice combination and I also like the snow pavement roses (white with lavender tones) with the purple clematis. I've got to go out and take more close-ups of the flowers! LOL

Good thread :)

mine are pink,purple,red and white. Lately I fell in love with the Salmon colored roses.

Purple and yellow. Blooms fade in and out especially in a hot summer. Beneath the perilla are dead plants. This fall and next spring, I'll be replacing things from other spots in the yard and wintersowing. I'm really looking forward to making this garden very hands off.

Before I pulled out all those ugly orange Cosmos, lol, now I'm left with mostly pink. Not by choice though. When I shop locally it seems they only have pink in everything.

Next year I'll be seeding a lot of white to compliment the pink.

I do have a few large patches of blue Salvia which are nice. But it doesn't compliment the pink.

Pink,Purple,and grey.
Kathi

Pink, blue and white. Love those colors together. And although I didn't aim for and don't really have a cottage garden, those colors are very popular in cottage gardening. I also try to mix in some silver foliage - looks great with the pink/blue/white.

tina

Oakleyok- What about yellow with the white and pink? That's a pretty combination :)

Screaming orange, yellow, hot red-violet, and saturated orchid. And white, so that people don't go blind when they visit.

Renee

I like pastels. Pink is the most prominent this year. I never use oranges, golds, or reds. I just jerked up a volunteer hibiscus that turned out to be the red Texas Star. I do think hot colors have a place in certain gardens.

Spring - Green, blue, yellow, white
Summer - Green, pink, purple, mauve, burgundy, lilac, white
Autumn - As for summer
Winter - Green and any other colour I can get!

My garden is microscopic so I have to restrict the palette. I think if you are going to do bright garish colours you have to do them boldly and within a suitable palette, not as random splotches. Also it depends a lot on your climate. Under grey skies and drizzle luminous salmon and shocking pink just look sad to me. Under bright sunshine they can look terrific.

Currently the summer palette is being disrupted by a clump of magnificant yellow sun flowers which seeded themselves under the bird feeder. I don't have the heart to pull them and they'll provide winter entertainment from the birds when the seed ripens.

Purple, Pink, White, with a touch of pale Yellow. No Reds, no Oranges.

I have one penstemon that is orange, but I enjoy it so much I can't bring myself to pull it. Fortunately, only purples are in bloom at the same time and it's finished by the time the pinks start. Except in the fall, when the pumpkin chrysanthemums chime in.