Adding color to a garden wall creates a strong focus for the space. You can mix colorant into stucco or add a coat of paint to an existing wall; here are five of our favorite colorful garden walls:
Above: Photograph via Apaiser.
A green backdrop can lend one potted plant enough gravitas to carry the entire garden.
Above: Photograph via Maison-Hand.
Let us not forget the power of white.
Above: Photograph via The Style Files.
Certain summer skies are such an impossible blue that they need a bright pink to calm them down.
Above: Photograph via The Poetry of Material Things.
A watery green to remind you of the relationship between plants and water.
Above: Photograph via Make Design Firm.
The spice of an orange courtyard absorbs the hot midday sun in Santa Fe.
Above: Photograph by Pedro Felgueiras.
For more, see A Red Garden Wall by Pedro Felgueiras.