Colour in your Garden
How people use colour is quite personal and if one person said the colour red to 20 people, those 20 people would view the colour red in different tones or hues. This means that colour is subjective and is undoubtedly affected by our own likes and dislikes as well as location, light levels and use of the garden.
Colours can appear in different ways to us for example, red is classed as a ‘hot colour’ and it really does demand your attention and has the effect of coming towards you. Yellow also comes towards you but isn’t as demanding as red yellow tends to reflect available light. Green is ‘cool’, it makes a good backdrop to other colours and blue is a very cool colour that often seems to merge with the background and looks smaller to its red counterpart.
Yes, you read it right Prince Harry, it seems, has applied to the RHS to exhibit in Central Avenue of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2013.
I have to admit that 2012 was a pretty strange year and I don't think that I am the only one who thinks that. It has been classed as the second wettest on record yet we saw hosepipe bans in the southern parts of England. We also saw a few other things that would impact our industry for example, an increase in VAT, proposed relaxation in the laws covering building extensions and domestic rear gardens and the government imposed yet more spending cuts which threaten our public spaces making them at greater risk of decline.
If you haven’t bought your Christmas cards yet or are in need of some inspiration for the gardener in your family and are looking for a charity to support this Christmas, please do consider Perennial the Gardener’s Royal Benevolent Society. Established in 1839 it is a national charity for those people who have worked or are working in the horticultural industry and are facing difficult times including illness and financial difficulty. 
