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Color garden
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The term color garden may either refer to a garden that has a large variety of colors or a garden where a single color is highlighted. In the first sense, a color garden is a garden specially planted in order to display a wide variety of colors, often in a particular season (for example, a fall color garden). In the second sense, a color garden may be otherwise labeled as a single-color garden or a monochromatic garden. Single-color gardens Such a garden is planted so that it overwhelms the observer with a single color. While this may seem a rather bland approach at first, such gardens were made popular by the work of famous garden designers such as Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West. Sackville-West, for example, created what may have been one of the most famous single-color gardens, the White Garden room of the Sissinghurst Castle Garden. Many single-color gardens use flowers of different shades, such as light yellow and deep gold, or a range that includes dark burgundy, bright scarlet, and also pink for a red garden. (An similar idea uses analogous colors, such as purple, red, and orange, rather than a single color.) Plants with colored leaves, such as silver leaves or plants with foliage for a white garden, might also be included. Yellow variegated leaves can be difficult to include in a multi-colored garden, but they blend easily into an all-yellow garden, such as all-yellow Gold Border garden at Wave Hill in New York. Beyond the choice of color, single-color gardens are designed with a variety of types and sizes of flowers as well as plants of different heights, shapes and textures. The white flowers in a white garden are not necessarily pure white; they may have hints of other colors, such as gray, blue, pink, yellow, or green. Flowers used in white gardens may include: *White camellia *Shasta daisy *White lilac *Madonna lily *White periwinkle *White rose Role of symbolism The colour white, and white flowers in particular, carry a vast amount of symbolism. In parts of the US in 1915, single-color flower gardens featuring yellow flowers were used as a symbol of support for . 
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