Fire power!
IF used well, fiery colours create a feel-good factor in the garden whatever the weather. Flaming-hot shades of orange, red, cerise, purple and gold blaze in sunshine and provide cheer even under grey skies.
Many gardeners are understandably wary of using bold fiery colours, such as scarlet, because they can dominate a border. For this reason, many large gardens (such as Sissinghurst Castle Garden in Kent) plant them en masse on their own in a melting pot of colour.
However, it is easy to incorporate these uplifting hot hues into the borders of an
