Friday 23 August 2013

A natural when it come to matching colours

It's not me who's a natural.  I'm hopeless! It's Mother Nature I'm talking about. You only have to look into my wardrobe to see that I haven't got a clue about colour schemes, and I can never remember what colour any of my clothes are when I'm shopping for new stuff. Even my black clothes don't match each other. Who'd have thought there were so many shades of black? But Mother Nature never has a problem matching her colours. She can even get orange and pink to go together.

She manages it delicately with this double begonia:


She adds a sprinkling of orange discreetly to this pink echinacea:


And she's bold and 'in yer face' with this dahlia:


The only way that I can be sure of wearing matching items is to have them all the same colour but again Mother Nature has out-styled me. How about this for a perfect blend of a single colour?


What colour schemes are hanging up in your wardrobe?


All the above photographs were taken this afternoon in our garden and yes it's still looking amazing thanks to Mr A's hard work!