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If you are new to working with color in your gardening, two-color flower combinations are a wonderful way to ensure quick success.

Start with a dominant color, and choose plants that will provide that lead color throughout the growing season. Select a second color. It can either harmonize with the dominant color, or provide an interesting contract. Choose plants that will provide that second color season-long.

“Complementary colors” are opposite each other on the color wheel (for example, yellow and violet, orange and blue, and so on). Pairing complementary colors is pleasing to the eye, and would make a great two-color flower bed.

You can echo colors with flowers and foliage, such as deep red leaves and a lighter pink flower. Introducing a tiny bit of contrast color adds excitement and will really bring the garden to life.

When you have a truly vibrant color, keep it from overwhelming the secondary color by limiting the vibrant shade to 20 percent of the flower bed’s total area. Give 40 percent of the bed to the quieter complementary color, and fill in the rest of the space with a lot of healthy green foliage.

Avoid dividing the color in lines or layers. Allow the shades to mingle; the interspersed colors will flatter each other rather than compete for your eye’s attention.

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