Choose colourful vegetables this summer
Gardening is like painting. This summer, paint up a kitchen garden filled with colourful vegetables.
The colours and architectural shapes to be found in a glorious summer kitchen garden are vast and varied. Many herbs and vegetables have colourful flowers and foliage that mix well together.
This is your summer guide to a vision of vegetables:
- Plain or frilly leafed lettuce, in shades of green and red, will fill gaps in borders while a parsley edging resembles lime green lace.
- Cabbages can also be used as temporary fillers; those with red-purple leaves show up well with red flowers and grey foliage; blue-green cabbages introduce a contrast in form and texture with white roses, lavender, frilly white dianthus and silver-grey sage.
- For the brave at heart, combine lime-green nicotiana with lettuce; orange and yellow peppers with yellow, apricot, pink and red stems of Swiss chard ‘Bright Lights’; or ‘Ruby’ chard with red peppers, ruby-red lettuce and dark-leafed basil.
- Orange cosmos compliments blue-flowered borage, and yellow sunflowers mix well with fennel, as do marigolds with lime-green lettuce.
- Another bright grouping would include yellow and orange day lilies with the ferny foliage of tansy and lime-green lettuce.
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Source: CXpress
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