Flowers That Match Your Hardscaping Color Scheme

As warm weather approaches, it's time to start bringing life back to your outdoor space! There is a wide variety of plants and flowers that will naturally compliment your exterior color and hardscaping. Whether you have a neutral, cool tone, or warm tone hardscaping there are plants to complement any backyard!

Greys/ Neutrals

If your backyard has a white, cream, or tan hardscaping color consider choosing flowers, bushes or trees with vibrant pops of color. This will brighten up your neutral hardscaping and add beautiful eye-catching decoration everyone will love!

Suggested plant: Hydrangea
These vivacious plants offer bright pops of color that will not only liven up your backyard but blossom all season long. Hydrangeas are very vibrant and come in a variety of different shapes and shades. With shades like red, white, green, blue, pink, and purple the possibilities are endless! Mix and match your favorite colors together to get your desired look and turn plain hardscaping into something unique and magical!

Blues/ Cool tones

Blue or cool exterior color hardscape look best with plants that bloom in yellow. The yellow plants will complement the overall look of your hardscaping and provide dramatic pops of color.

Suggested plant: Sunflowers
It is no surprise that sunflowers are known to be the “happy” flower. Blue and yellow are both primary colors and complement each other very well. The yellow pigment in the sunflowers will stand out against the cool tone hardscaping and give a gorgeous bright affect. These beautiful flowers make amazing feature flowers and add bright summer colors to your backyard.

Brown/Warm tones

Cool toned plants and flowers complement brown or warm tone color hardscape. The contrast between these two colors gives a vigorous pop of color to your outdoor space. Plant morning glories to give some joy to your backyard and fill the space with brilliant color!

Suggested plant: Morning Glory
These delicate flowers are strikingly beautiful. Their fragrant heart shaped leaves are not only captivating to our eyes but are also adored by hummingbirds and butterflies. Morning glories come in various colors such as pink, purple, blue, magenta and white. These variations of colors are all suitable for any warm tone hardscaping and make a great addition to your garden! What could be more magical than watching these flowers bloom early in the morning and close up in the late afternoon? (Photo courtesy of garden.org)