Pastel Garden Celebrates the start of spring

Peaceful & Relaxing Color Scheme

Dreamy pastel colors take us back to our childhood where we remember our toys, the magical unicorn, and the rainbow after it rains! Pastel colors also adorn everything around Easter time to celebrate the start of spring. These colors are pale tints of primary and secondary colors. Pastel colors can make us feel relaxed, refreshed and peaceful. Pastel colors are soft and light tones of pink, purple, blue, green, orange and yellow.
The possibilities are endless when it comes to creating a garden in a pastel color pallet. Take some time to research garden designs that fit your landscape theme. Magazines, books, and web sites are excellent resources to gather ideas. Keep in mind basic elements of good garden design such as bloom time, plant height, maintenance requirements and plant habits. Using pastels in the garden can create a space where we can unwind after a hard day and feel refreshed. A pastel garden can be placed almost anywhere in the yard. Pastel colored flowers look beautiful in bright sunlight, but also stand out in overcast days, shade gardens and can brighten up especially dark areas. Try to incorporate pastel hues in your outdoor patio furniture, glazed planters, and art sculptures too!

Delicate Visual Refuge

Consider incorporating pastel colors in your outdoor retreats and planting the subtle colors where the morning or evening light lingers. In a garden space intended for peace, quite and relaxation, pale pinks, blues, lavenders, and yellows are the perfect garden color scheme that radiate in gloomy days and offer a visual refuge and a calming influence in bright days. 

Floral Sweet Scents

Many pastel color flowers flaunt sweet scents that announce the flowers' availability to insect pollinators. Add pale-color roses, lilacs, foxglove, and hydrangea, to your garden schemes and enjoy their perfume as you stroll through the garden. There is an abundance of pale color flowers found in roses, bulb flowers, shrubs, and flowering trees. If you live in the southwest, pastel colors are also found in succulents and agaves.

Drought Tolerant Succulents

Succulents make it easy to grow rosettes and lush groundcover outdoors in many regions. Most succulents are frost hardy down to -20F (zone 5) and will tolerate extended drought. These low-maintenance plants are easy growers and grown in many colors and winter interest to rock gardens, ground cover, living walls, container arrangements, and so much more!