One of the coolest tricks of the garden is the way it can sometimes create a mood or feeling through its use of colors and shades. Case in point is the way warm colors and cool colors work to set the place on fire or douse it in metaphorical water. The little annual blooms seen here do the latter, calmly lowering the temperature we think we are experiencing with the cooler end of the color spectrum.
Gardens of white and silver do similar magic, their calmer hues lending a cooling aspect to the day and night.
At the other end are the bright oranges and reds and yellows that light a place up, setting ablaze the day with matching fire and pyrotechnics. The cup plant right now is accomplishing that, with its fireworks that burst forth as high as the garden goes. Some scarlet petunias are lighting up its base too, and together with the orange butterfly weed, they make their own heat and fire.
The garden is wonderful in all ways.
