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03.05.2024 - 14:14 / bhg.com / Martha Stewart / Christianna Silva
Jay Wilde
Spring literally brings color back into our lives—from blooming flowers to brightening skies, the growth of new grass and sprouting trees reveals a shade that looks just as good indoors as it does outside: the gray of winter mixed delicately with the green of spring. This color—call it gray-green, sage, or pale green—embodies the essence of renewal and tranquility, what the season is all about.
The gray-green of this spring provides a dynamic interplay of light and shadow, texture and tone, awakening and dormancy. It’s the calming color you imagine emanating from our gardens and shooting up from the once-frozen ground. It’s also the perfect shade to bring into your home, whether it's via paint on your walls or through decor items like throw pillows, blankets, or rugs.
“The sense of wellbeing that we gain from time outside in the natural world has resulted in a desire to re-create this sense of connection and positivity in our homes, driving a renewed love for greens of all hues, as well as biophilic design,” Ruth Mottershead, the creative director of Little Greene Paints, told BHG in a previous article.
If anyone can prove any color deserves to have a moment, it's home and lifestyle icon Martha Stewart. In a recent post about hosting her annual Easter lunch, she showed off her entryway walls and door painted in the serene shade.
In Stewart's countryside home, the hallway effortlessly leads you from the outside to the indoors—as you come in from the colorful yard, you’re transported to an equally calming environment, immediately setting an inviting tone.
Gray-green is versatile enough to bridge the gap between a neutral color and an earthy tone, offering a softer alternative to a bold statement wall. It can serve
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Madeline Tolle. Interior Design: Mandy Cheng
If you don't have a green thumb, are in an environment that’s hard on plants, or are just tired of gardening, you might want to look into a garden that isn’t alive at all. Rock gardens are trending (especially in hot, desert planting zones) as a way to design your garden with little or no greenery required.
If you buy your garden border plants from the people who grow them, you’ll benefit from their expert advice and knowledge.
It’s always a treat when award-winning landscape designer Jay Sifford sends in photos of his fabulous home garden in the mountains of North Carolina. Today, we have an extra-special treat:
Le Creuset
Putting plants together is the most creative and joyful part of making a garden. With colour, shape and texture, you can conjure up a living work of art, something that not only gives you sensory pleasure but also benefits wildlife and the environment. But with so many options available to us, where do we start? I always think back to the plantswoman Beth Chatto and her mantra ‘right plant, right place’ when conceiving a plan, because there is no point in rushing to place your favourite sun-loving flowers in a shady spot at the back of a north-facing house. ‘Plants, like people, have their preferences and don’t like being thrust into the nearest available hole,’ she observed.
Left: WWD / Getty Images; Right: CARSON DOWNING
How to Create Glorious Garden Color Schemes
Many of you may be familiar with our native fringetree, Chionanthus virginicus, often called Grancy graybeard, granddaddy graybeard or old man’s beard. It is a wonderful small tree that grows throughout the state but is certainly not a common site. It begins blooming in late March with airy, off-white flowers.
If you're craving a bit more color in your living room but are renting your home or are not looking to make any major, permanent changes, by no means is all hope lost.