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Design Elements with Landscape Designer Louise McDaid
- Today we’re focusing on an Australian garden that’s a fantastic example of the use of colour. According to the blurb on the website for this garden, strolling through these huge formal gardens is a lovely experience at any time of year. You can follow several walking paths, and meander through twenty garden compartments.
- For the best tips, listen to Louise take us through this garden.
Should you want to visit this
amazing garden called Cloudhill in the Dandenongs, it has masses of bulbs in Spring, dazzling colour in
the Summer flower borders, magnificent beech and maple trees in Autumn and
acres of colourful rhododendrons in Winter.
Cloudehill
warm harmonious scheme – herbaceous border
Red-violet,
red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow
Creates a
mood – energetic, exciting, alert, happy
Cloudehill
cool harmonious scheme – herbaceous border
Violet,
blue-violet, blue, blue-green, green
Creates a
mood - Calming, serene, gentle
Cloudehill
triadic - 3 colours equally spaced on the colour wheel – could be primary
colours red/blue/yellow as in the picture – mix of flowers and foliage, doesn’t
matter – the colours still count
