A beautiful garden can easily be a standalone showpiece on the property of any home, but coordinating its flora with the aesthetic touches of your home can create a truly gorgeous scene. With a few helpful tips and the assistance of professional landscaping services, you’ll be able to cultivate a harmonious visual relationship between home and garden.

How to Create a Cohesive Design Between Your Garden & Home

1. Focus on the Walls First

Looking at the walls of your home will provide a great starting point for potential color palettes. If the majority of your home is a neutral color, such as white, beige, or grey, you have almost unlimited choices. Even with a neutral color as your base, however, you can still use its temperature as a guide. Grey, for example, is a cooler color that could potentially pair well with purple and blue flowers or even softer pink flowers as a contrast. A warmer base color such as white or beige goes well with warmer colors. Red, orange, and brighter pink flowers will play well with the color.

2. Look at the Trim for Additional Color Ideas

After establishing your main palette by using the walls of your home as a guide, looking at the trim will provide good ideas for additional splashes of color. Just as the trim plays a smaller role in the color scheme of your house, the flowers you choose as secondary colors should play a smaller role as well. Overwhelming your garden with these bolder color choices can create a visual overload that throws off the natural balance of the flora, so it’s best to exercise a bit of restraint.

3. Don’t Worry About the Perfect Match

Choosing flowers that mesh well with the overall color scheme of your home is much more important than finding an exact color match. By focusing on the aforementioned “temperature” of your home, you’ll be able to select flowers that harmonize with your home while holding a unique visual identity of their own as well. Even with the help of professional landscaping services, choosing colors that are an exact match can create a monotone wash of color instead of a vibrant design.

Hui Ku Maoli Ola Native Hawaiian Plant Specialists has been the go-to source for landscaping services in the Kaneohe, HI, area for more than 25 years. With more than 100 different species of native Hawaiian plants and a team of highly experienced and knowledgeable experts, the company takes pride in helping customers harness the beauty of the islands to create a stunning landscape. For more information, call (808) 235-6165 or visit the website today.