Silk Flowers’ Powers Multiplied with Complementary Colors
Created a Well-balanced Silk Flower Arrangement

Just like a well-balanced meal has a bit of every food group, a well-balanced silk flower arrangement uses a bit of every primary color. Few of us consider straight primary colors to be components of good design, but blends of those primary colors are necessary for any color to exist. When complementary colors are used, red, blue, and yellow are all employed.


Red and Green Silk Flowers

Green is a combination of yellow and blue, and red is…well…red. This color combination is rarely considered aside from Christmas, but don’t forget about fruit, greenery, and shades of pink.

Red roses, tulips, snapdragons, or poppies in pink or red, coupled with ivy, grape leaves, or any evergreen silk plant will balance and create a treat for the eye. Fruit coupled with greenery can also accomplish this. Don’t forget about cranberry stems, apples, and cherry blossoms.

When fiery, energetic red is combined with cool, calming green, the perfect ambient decorating temperature is found.


Orange and Blue Silk Flowers

Orange is the color of swiftness, warmth, and constantly increasing energy. Blue counters this mad expansion with its calming qualities. It balances orange’s heat with its cooling properties.

Orange is a combo of yellow and red, while blue stands alone.

To make a perfectly balanced blue and orange silk flower arrangement, try some cosmos, delphinium, hyacinth, tulips, or roses in blue, along with some alstromeria, cosmos, daylilies, daisies, orchids, or snapdragons in orange. Sprinkle in some complementary fruit, like oranges or blue grapes, and you’ll have a seamless production of silk flower perfection.


Yellow and Purple Silk Flowers

Yellow stands alone as a primary color, while purple is a combination of the primary colors red and blue. A silk flower arrangement made from purple and yellow blooms is the best choice for creating feelings of positive energy and good-intentioned power.

Yellow is the ultimate energy color. It awakens and gives a natural energy boost by stimulating the nervous system.

Purple brings to mind thoughts of rightness in principles and sacred resolve.

Together, is there anything that yellow and purple cannot help to accomplish? Try some yellow daffodils, daisies, irises, daylilies, orchids, forsythia, delphinium, poppies, sunflowers, tulips, or roses coupled with purple lilacs, irises, orchids, tulips, hydrangeas, hyacinths, delphinium, crocuses, or roses. And don’t forget about the faux fruits - lemons, apples, or grapes, anyone?


Wrapping up your Complementary Silk Flower Arrangement

No matter your particular color favorites, you can surely incorporate some complementary color schemes into your silk flower arrangements. Doing so is one of the tricks used by professional florists and interior designers alike. They know that the unspoken balance will spark a natural cadence and beauty that cannot be described with words.

And don’t forget - straight primary colors need not be used. Peach can stand in for orange, while pink can make a subdued statement in place of red. Lighter shades of any color will mute its message, while darker, more intense shades will scream with bold abandon.

Your guests are sure to be generous with compliments, when you use complementary colors to create your very own natural looking silk flower arrangements.

by Jacinda LIttle - May, 2009

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