Beginner Gardening: Color Scheme: a little or a lot of color?, 1 by Tir_Na_Nog

Tir_Na_Nog wrote:
My house is a brick Colonial. I currently have dark green shutters/door but will eventually change these to black paneled shutters, cream trim on the door and a red door.

The windows on the bottom are much longer than upstairs and the cats like to lay in the sills and look out. But I'm still leaning towards having roses in the permanent beds. But I'm not set on that.

I need easy plants (I know, roses aren't, but they would be the most time consuming I'd hope). I'd like flowers that will bloom through more than just one season. I hate annuals. I don't have time to baby a lot of plants. I know, I sound so demanding don't I?!

I will be removing all the plants there currently and changing the size of the beds around those sweetgum trees.

Unfortunately the original owners didn't give thought to the structure of the house being formal and they did not plant the 2 sweetgums symmetrically. So aside from the trees I think I'd like to plant things as evenly balanced as possible.

Should I use just a few colors? Or many colors? I need some help/suggestions please! It's not the best photo----I wasn't taking it with this question in mind to show you.

This message was edited Jul 10, 2007 12:59 PM