About The Gardener’s Color Wheel
By Sydney Eddison

Finding Your Way Around The Gardener’s Color Wheel

With the front of the color wheel toward you, look at the pure, intense, industrial-strength colors around the outer rim. These full-bodied hues pack the most punch in color schemes. The inner concentric rings show progressively paler tints of all the hues. While pastels have less intensity than pure colors, their lightness makes them highly visible in the garden.

Now, flip the color wheel over. Again, you will find the strong, pure colors around the outside. The inner rings show you deeper and deeper tones and increasingly dark shades of the colors. Tones and shades in the garden stand out less at a distance than tints. Tones are great blenders and take the edge off bright, intense colors.

 

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