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Posted by Sunset, September 3, 2009 in Furnishing the garden , People , Techniques

By Sharon Cohoon, Sunset senior garden writer

We wrote about a garden with dark purple walls recently. (Suzanne McKevitt's house with its Approaching Storm paint).  Here's another wonderfully brave garden.  Three primary colors in one small patio!  The mustard yellow of the house, a tall cobalt blue wall, and a shorter tomato red wall.  The plants are still young but eventually, there will be blue agapanthus spilling over the red wall and Tropicana cannas flanking the blue one, and the color will be even more riotous.

But it's already a wonderfully energizing space.  Makes apache tan and adobe white seem pretty dull, doesn't it?

Fullerton landscape architect Alison Terry designed the garden.  The home's Spanish colonial architecture and its owner's bold personality inspired the space.  There are more details from this project on her website.

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What a treat. I love the dashes of lime green mixed in with those great primaries.

Posted by:Sheila Schmitz | September 03, 2009 at 07:16 PM

It reminds me of the colorful art of Freida Kahlo. Beautiful!

Posted by:Bob | September 15, 2009 at 05:14 PM
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