Kye AuClaire
ABS 360
Red: Danger, passion.
Yellow: Caution, sacredness
Warm Colors: yellow and red – attention grabbers. Tend to advance toward the human
eye, tend to make landscape spaces look smaller. Use warm colors sparingly and with
discretion. Be careful not to place warm colors to places to not focus on. Entryways to
home.
Cool colors: purple, grays, violet. Cause passive, relaxed feelings. Recede away from the
eye. Make spaces appear larger than they really are.
Colors can have a harmonius or disruptive effect when used in certain schemes or
combinations.
Four different types of color schemes for landscape garden:
oMonochromatic: Use tints and shades of one pure color, tints are lighter or whiter,
shade is darker. Ex: tints and shades of red, with white and purple color. Move
slowly throughout garden.
oAnalogous: Use different color hues that are next to each other on the color wheel.
Move more quickly than monochromatic
oComplementary: Use different color hues that are opposite each other on the color
wheel. Powerful combinations. Ex: Red and Green, Orange and Blue, Yellow and
Violet. Eye to suddenly stop. Create points of accent.
Topic 2 – Bedding Plants and Landscape Color
oPolychromatic: Combine many different colors next to each other. Seem random
and create tension, also can create festive and playful responses. Use with
discretion.
Colors can change under light conditions and in and out of bloom.
Bedding Plant is the seasonal transplanting of fast-growing, short-lived, small plants into
garden beds to create seasonal displays of sensory interest.
Bedding plant growth habit: Non-woody, tender, herbaceous
Bedding plant life cycle: annual, biennial, short-lived perennials.
Bedding plants are used produce cut flowers, and edibles or dried flowers, fragrance
gardens, and for wildlife.
The use of bedding plants is shaped by the periodicity of local growing seasons.
In the lower Sonoran Desert there are two-distinct growing seasons: Warm Season and
Cool season
Warm season bedding plants: Usually transplanted into the landscape garden during late
April, and grow until late August or early September. Few bedding plants can withstand
the high heat of a desert summer. Ex: Periwinkle, Star Clusters, Mexican Zinnia,
Angelonia.
Cool season bedding plants: Planted in October, grow through the winter till April. There
are more plants to choose from for the cool season compared to the warm season. Ex:
Pansy, Petunia, Geranium, Marigold, Pot Marigold, Snapdragon.
Success to bedding plants is all about the soil : amend the soil with composted organic
matter to a depth of 8-12 in. Organic matter improves to capacity for water and nutrients.
MOST IMPORTANT FOR GROWTH OF BEDDING PLANTS.
IMPORTANT TO SPACE INDIVDIUAL BEDDING PLANTS CLOSE TOGETHER SO
THEY CAN GROW TOGETHER.
Bedding plants are cultured for a short period of time, usually no longer than six months.
Use proper spacing intervals. Spacing will keep garden soil cool and most, allowing to let
the plants grow together.
Most bedding plants are not native to Sonoran Desert, therefore they need irrigation
(water).
Bedding plants will need to be watered more often than landscape trees and plants.
Cool season bedding plants will need to be irrigated about every two to three days.
Warm season bedding plants will need to be watered every other day or every day during
the hottest days of summer.
ALL BEDDING PLANTS will need extra water to first get them established at first.
Best time of day to irrigate is during the morning
KEY POINT: KEEP RICH ORGANIC SOIL MIX EVENLY MOIST.
The garden’s soil should be even moist to a depth of 6 inches below the surface.
No longer than 6 months for growing seasons.
Bedding plants must be able to:
oGrow quickly
oHave robust healthy foliage
oFlower quickly and profusely
Bedding plant garden soil fertility will be optimally rich in essential plant nutrients
RULE OF THUMB: Soils with bedding plants should be fertilized once when you plant
them and again have way through or three months.
Use a complete fertilizer with a balance of essential plant nutrients including
micronutrients such as iron.
Avoid use of unbalanced fertilizers, with mostly nitrogen, will stimulate leafy growth
Read the label on fertilizer and read instructions
When in doubt apply less fertilizer than more fertilizer
Adding too much fertilizer will cause salt burn on leaves, flowers and stems.
Tip: If you choose to an organic fertilizer product, sure to incorpate soil.
2 Biggest Garden problems: Unwanted weeds and soil bacterial and fungal diseases.
Always inspect potting soil for diseases and weeds before you purchase them. Look at the
surface for presence.
Inspect the potting soil for three symptoms of disease: Abnormal leaf yellowing, dead
roots, off odors or smells. ANY THREE EXIST, DO NOT PURCHASE.
DO NOT PROCRASTINATE PULLING WEEDS IN GARDEN, manually remove at
first appearance the top 12 inches of soil and replace.
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