This planting is relatively new and I'm pleased with how it's coming along. I really like the combination of the magenta perennial geranium and the evening primrose. It makes sense for them to look good together as they would be opposite on the colour wheel and they are both on the cool side. On the left is a campanula which would be closer to the magenta on the colour wheel but it also is a cool colour. Not quite in bloom yet, behind the big stump, is meadowsweet which will have a cool pink flower. I like the way the strong colours of the geranium and primrose are framed by the paler colours of the campanula and meadowsweet. A bit later in the season, some pink phlox and lemon yellow lilies will be in the space.
This is a very flash combination but for me it works because the petunias are the same intensity and form.
Here the strong orange lychnis (campion) does not go well with the pale pink lilies. The lychnis is definitely hot, the lily is cool. The lychnis just makes the lilies look very washed out.
The lilies would look much better near this lavender clematis. Both flowers have similar forms (six petals) but are just different enough to be interesting. The colours are close in the colour wheel, are both cool, and are of similar intensity.
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