I will share with you ideas on how to add color to your backyard, and embrace outdoor beauty!
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Easy Elegance® Roses. The opinions and text are all mine. Be sure to check out the giveaway at the end of this post!
Last week I shared our one-year progress report on the pool. And today, as a semi-follow-up to that post, I want to share the progress on my goal for adding bold color to the space! You may recall, earlier in the spring, I added some roses and potentilla to the backyard to provide summer-long color to the outdoor space. When they were first planted, the blooms had not yet begun, and everything was looking really green. But I knew within a month there were be a lot more pops of color!
The Easy Elegance® Roses add the perfect punch of color that I was looking for! I’ve been really pleased with the growth size of each of the pretty shrubs this summer as well.
The bold shade of pink in the “My Girl” roses looks so beautiful against the deep blue tones of the pool!
You can see in the image below that the shrubs continue to produce bud after bud after bud. So, you continuously have dramatic color throughout the summer! Which in our situation helped immensely. When the shrubs were at the height of their bloom, we got the crazy hail storm. Although the hail totaled our roof (and other parts of our house), the shrubs survived (even though some of the petals were casualties). I just love how hardy these flowering shrubs are – perfect for our crazy Midwest weather!
The Mango Tango® Potentilla (a Bailey Nurseries plant) is the perfect companion to the bright pink rose blooms! I love the texture the leaves provide as well!
The Easy Elegance® Roses are seriously the easiest roses you can grow (and arguably easier than most other plants in our yard). One of the reasons I opted to add so many of the bold roses throughout our yard over the years is because they’re not only beautiful but virtually maintenance free throughout the season!
I can’t believe how many petals are on each and every rose! Another feature I love about Easy Elegance is that they have a text opt-in program to help you out with your roses throughout the season! You simply text EASYELEGANCE to 73095 for timely care tips and instructions throughout the season!
On the opposite side of our yard near the lounge chairs, I added some deeply saturated color in the form of annuals in my planters. While they are beautiful to look at, they require attention on a daily basis.
I’m happy I have the annuals mixed in too, for a little variation, but they are so much work! Especially since they’re in full sun all day. The Easy Elegance® Roses thrive on this sunshine and don’t need any more water than the sprinkler system provides them. So much easier!
****THIS GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED – CONGRATS TO THE WINNER – THE CAPE ON THE CORNER!****
Now for the giveaway! I will be giving away one (1) prepaid $50.00 Visa gift card and one (1) pair of Easy Elegance branded gloves to a lucky reader! Simply comment below about your favorite way to add color to your landscaping. Giveaway will end August 10th at 11:59 PM Central time. Must be 18 years or older and a resident of the US to enter the giveaway. Good luck and happy planting!
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Lisa Brown says
I add color buy planting orange and yellow flowers, my two favorite colors for the garden; thanks for the chance 🙂
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Ashley Blank says
Like you, I love to add shrubs that bloom continuously throughout the season. Each spring, I get really excited to watch the blooms form and finally burst open to add pops of color to the landscape!
Jodi says
We love our knock out roses! Also, we have invested in plants that bloom at different times throughout the summer so that we always have pops of color throughout our landscaping. It is a daily job to keep up with our colorful planters, but we have quite a few of them on our front porch and back patio.
Heather S says
I love roses to add color. They are so pretty and last all season!
Jennifer Martinez says
I love using hydrangeas, salvia and daisies in my garden for color all summer long.
Tiffany says
This is our first year in our new construction home and have been loving adding color to our yard this summer! We added some annuals in planters and to the main beds throughout the yard, but you’re right about the maintenance! Next year I would love to add some roses like yours!
Pam says
I like annuals as well but the upkeep is getting to be a lot in the heat of Iowa 🙂
Sharon says
I love bulbs for first color in the spring and roses and annuals during the summer. I also have perennials that come and go with color all summer.
Amy says
Love your beautiful yard! I like to add lavender, roses,
shasta daisys and coreopsis, all fairly low upkeep.???????????? ????
ellen from Ask Away says
I love painting flower pots and then adding matching colored annuals!
Sara Brinker says
I love to put hanging baskets in my planters and clip the hanging part off…and viola!!!…it looks like I worked really hard creating a fun color combo of flowers!!! I also love our knock out roses. I’m in DSM and haven’t seen the Easy Elegance ones, but I’ll look for them. They sound right up my low maintainance alley!!!!!! Thanks for the chance to win.
Pamela Branham says
I love to add color with container pots. My favorite colors to mix are red, purple and yellow. If you want a great plant for the summer sun, I always say go with Lantana. One of my favorites to use and it transitions well with your fall flowers, so less to buy. Love y our backyard space and love the roses.
the cape on the corner says
i use pots to line my stairs, so i love adding in color and seasonal plants (like giant kale) in the fall.
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Lisa Kissner Cooper says
I love adding painted pots and hydrangeas for a pop of color.
Karen says
I love to use roses and also butterfly bush for color year after year, then I add some pots for pops of color when needed!
Thanks, love the pool and the landscaping!
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Kathy says
I love the roses for color. Like you say, annuals are a daily job. I would like to also add some hydrangeas for big color. Your yard is beautiful.
R. says
I love sweet potato vine for adding color that won’t compete with the flowers.
Megan says
I love to have a pot of flowers next to my front door!
Kim Epperson says
I have a pot of flowers next to my door and hanging baskets and flower boxes to liven up the backyard!
Sheila says
In this Texas heat, we need flowers that can tolerate the high temps – we like to add vinca and hibiscus plants to our garden.
Ericka says
So pretty! My favorite way to add color to our yard is definitely through flowers. I have some perennials that help, but I love getting annual every year in the form of hanging baskets or a bunch of different ones to plant in pots on our front porch and back deck.
Erin Clouse says
I add color with annuals in hanging baskets, window boxes, and planters around my property, but it can get expensive doing that. That’s why I like to buy perennials throughout the year to have a variety of bloom times in flower beds.
Kara says
I love my hydrangea bushes and peony plants. I’m planning on putting in a few more pink and white hydrangeas in next year as a barrier in front of porch. I can’t seem to keep my annuals alive in pots, but it’s probably because I’m not giving them the attention they deserve!
Shell says
We used to have all roses in our landscaping (over 100 rose bushes) but they became a pain to trim each year so we started adding hydrangeas. We still have roses to help bring color to the yard but have also added coneflowers, oriental lilies (thrive well in the heat here in Elkhorn) and many other perennials to give contrast. We do add a few potted plants with annuals but like you posted, they require daily maintenance. 🙁
Vickie DeWees says
I like to use a mixture of perennials and annuals to bring color to our landscape. I love hydrangeas , there are so many varieties that you can always have something in bloom. I try to use planters for my annuals with bright colored blooming flowers and different shades of vines. The sweet potato vines are my favorite. Tropical plants are my favorite to use around my pool, it brings some tropics to the Midwest.
Felicity says
I needed this post, because I haven’t discovered my favorite way to add color. I’ve managed to keep all my green bushes and trees alive for the few years we’ve been in our house, but I need to get on the color bandwagon. We have a beautiful crepe myrtle out front, but that only adds color a few weeks of the year. Thanks for the color inspo!
Katie Delaney says
I love to have candy stripe red geraniums in my planters, but they also require daily dead-heading and watering, and frequent fertilizing. I’d love to have more perennials like roses to add color without as much maintenance.
Meghan Gassner says
Besides plants we love to use red lava rock to add some color! The small size is just like bark/mulch, but lasts forever! Perfect for our high desert climate here. Color + no maintenance is my kind of landscaping!
Kelly D says
I like to add plants that have pretty colors such as creeping phlox and salvia.
Beth Ann says
My favorite way to add color to a yard, in addition to flowers, is a set of colorful Adirondack chairs sitting under a tree in the grass. Hopefully, it draws the eye away from the ugly, but fun, trampoline 🙂
Stephanie Phelps says
I love to add color to my backyard by adding azaleas , rose bushes and lots of wild flowers!
Ellie Wright says
Besides adding pretty flowers for color, I like to add colorful planters and painted rocks.
Jill OToole says
I planted the easy to grow roses this year too in the back corner of our yard. I did the Knockout Rose bushes in the ruby color. I also put in a purple butterfly bush and planted zinnias for even more color in the same color.
Amy says
Herbs, lavender and my veggie garden and orchard add color over my property. In my flower beds I stick to white, silver, purple and blues with a lot of greenery!
Cheryle says
For me, adding roses to my garden is the best way to add that “pop” of color. Their continuous blooming from Spring through Fall allows me to use them as the anchor color for various sites throughout my yard.
Gretchen says
I typically add annuals to my pots each summer for color. Were getting ready to landscape our backyard Andy my plan is to add mostly perennials for color.
Sue says
I’ve been following your blog for a little while, enjoying all of your home design/improvements and especially enjoying your landscaping/yard projects. I have a good sized portion of a flower bed (on a hill) that I have with some flowering bushes, stone hedge, hostas, cone flowers, boxwoods and black-eyed Susans. I have a few dwarf flowering fruit trees, dwarf Alberta spruce mixed in also. To add a little more color during the middle of the summer I have some petunias planted. Love your yard and love that you seem to “like” dirt as much as I do.
Suzanne says
Potted flowers are my favorite way to add color to my landscaping and patio.
Joan says
I add pots of Geraniums on the front of my stoop. Thanks for the giveaway.
Joan
Marion says
There is nothing like Morning Glories in their various colors and Gladioli. Thank you for this giveaway.
Marion
Marilyn says
Marigolds are the easy way to add color. They are so bright and hardy and tend to last all Summer. Thank you for the giveaway.
Marilyn
HS says
I love planting cosmos and marigolds to add colors.
Melissa Storms says
I have several rose bushes in different shades for color and i like to plant dahlias which I just treat like annuals here. I pick up several dinner plate dahlias and plant them in different areas each year.
Kerry says
I added petunias and geraniums last year. They didn’t get enough sun or water and died. I spent so much money and was ticked! So this year I added fake plants to some pots around the house! Ha! I like some of these suggestions, though. I might try them next spring!
Carma says
I like to add colorful pots and colorful flowers including some greenery that will cascade down the pots and add fullness. Pink is my favorite color but when deciding on flowers whatever color catches my attention. ☺????????????
DEBBY says
My favorite way to add color to my outdoor space is with the use of containers added into the flower beds. My best color combination is a blue pot with purple flowers mixed in a bed that is mostly greenery really stands out!!!
Sarah P. says
My favorite way to add color is annuals in containers. I just have to remember to water them!
Susan says
Love the roses! My favorite perennial is catmint. First and last to bloom straight through fall! Lots of different varieties, shapes and sizes. Enjoy your beautiful yard!
Melanie huttner says
I love pink roses and various hanging flowering plants for a pop of color!
Alicia E says
They are all about the Xeroscaping around here. I find it blah and prickly. (It also takes moisture out of the atmosphere but try telling that to all the know it alls. Ha.) So I am all about planting colorful flowers in pots around my house. In the fall, I will put out mums. In the winter I fill one of my pots with a tomato cage tree and keep it decorated until its time to plant flowers again.
Kenny hall says
I love adding colorful pansies to our garden bed.
Susan Christy says
I have a lot of vinca because it holds up well in the heat.
Denise K. says
Love hydrangeas!!
Nicki Joseph says
Lilys! I have several in my yard and they’re my favorite.
Nicole Burns says
I add color by simply planting different flowers that I love.
Laurie says
I add color with annual hanging basket that match the decor in our screened porch.
Meg @ Green With Decor says
I love your yard!! I love adding hydrangeas for pops of color 🙂
Carole B. says
I have a large perennial garden for no fuss color, but I also have lots of color in pots. The daily maintenance is a real pain!
Linda says
Adding color to the landscape makes all the difference
in curb appeal. We love colorful pots and hanging baskets.
I just have to remember to water more often.
Rebecca Musser says
I add color with heat tolerant annuals near my front entry (full sun). I love pulling up to my home and seeing pretty flowers!
Sharon Hunt says
I am a new reader to your blog and just found you today! Love your new pool. Here in our Southern California neighborhood we add pops of color with Plumeria’s and flowering succulents mixed in with a wonderful assortment of tropical Palm and Sago tree’s .
Kate says
I love adding flowers!
Jennifer H says
I love to have pots of annuals every yr!
E Aelterman says
My favorite way to add color to the landscape is by planting zinnias. They offer a variety of color and re-seed all season.
Kim @ Kim B says
Hydrangeas!!
Melanie says
I like to add color with flowers and roses but I also like to put colorful cushions on my outdoor furniture
Debbie says
I like using coneflowers/echinaceas for pops of color in the backyards that’s low maintenance and lasts all summer long. Outdoor furniture cushions, pillows, and succulents in a colorful pot also are my go to’s for pops of color in the patio area.
Lynne T says
I love to add color by having different colored varieties of my favorites such as tulips and roses.
Jennifer says
Hydrangeas and marigolds work well for us
Michelle J. says
I love how my hydrangeas add color. I think I’ll turn them blue next year.
Breanna Pollard says
MT FAVORITE WAY TO ADD COLOR IS THROUGH HAND PAINTED FLOWER POTS.
Sandra says
I like to add color to landscaping through flowered plants and plants with different colors in their leaves.
Ashley C says
We have a lot of color flowers in our garden. Our front is full shade but I have done my best to find the brightest shade plants!
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Tabathia B says
I would say some colorful throw pillows or a trellis with some colorful flowers
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Carolsue says
I have a lot of pinks and purples — daisies, tulips, etc. — planted so that they all bloom at different times and there is color in the backyard most of the time.
Vickielle says
I love adding a mix of perennials and annuals. but had not considered the roses and the Mango Rango shrubs. I will definitely add to my list.
Thanks
Shannon korpela says
I’m lazy. I do perennials, and try to find ones that bloom at different times.
Elena says
I like to add color by planting different flowers
Katrina Brockavich says
My favorite way to add color to the garden is with roses and flowering shrubs!
Elle says
I love Hydrangeas and lilacs the most for color to my landscape. I also love colorful shrubs and bushes.
Krissie says
I have flowers thst bloom st different times of the year to ensure color year round
Latanya says
pretty planters with bright colored plants
Julia says
Mexican petunias “ruellia”. They are bushy and have pretty purple flowers- hard to kill in Savannah GA! :).
Marilyn Nawara says
I add color with a variety of perennials that come up through the summer. Then, I fill in with annuals so that I have continuous color. My favorites are daisy, lily and tulips.
jeremy mclaughlin says
Like to plant rosh bushes to add color to our yard.
Anna Pry says
I like planting bulbs, seem to have better luck getting them to bloom
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Lisette says
I just bought my first house and I’m adding color by sticking with a color scheme in the front yard. I’m really excited to add more to it!! As for the backyard, I’m going to build a patio before I start adding color. I’m so excited for that too. Thank you for the giveaway!!
Grace M says
I love blue lobelia. It add s so much awesome color!
the cape on the corner says
yay, thank you so much!!