When I step outside my door, there are two colours that feature heavily in my garden this week.

Pink and yellow.

The yellows have been with us for a while, as I wrote about here, but the pink, that’s a new arrival and it’s completely flooded my garden.

At the beginning of this year, I made the decision to pay closer attention to what’s happening on my doorstep. I’m calling it nature noticing, because, well that’s what it is.

This desire to notice more, has come from a place of need more than anything else. With the passing of one of the darkest of winters I have known for a long time, I have felt viscerally the difference spending a bit of time looking at the detail of what’s happening in my garden can do for my emotional wellbeing.

So this week, as I walked our half acre patch of land in Devon, I noticed many things. So many green shoots appearing from the ground, the buds swelling on our hornbeam tree, the crescendo of bird song and the increasing hours of light in each day.

And then there are the colours. And whilst we await the blues of spring to appear, what we have instead is a threading of pinks throughout the ever increasing greens of the landscape.

Combining Pink & Yellow

There is something very beautiful about the combination of pink and yellow. It’s an age old colour combo, think rhubarb and custard of the past, with the bright, vibrant yellows balance with the gentle, nurturing of the pinks.

The camellia flowers themselves, have yellow centres to them, with nature also recognising a perfect colour match.

As I wrote about before, yellow as a colour can be very intense and so by combining it with the pinks, they help to soften the intensity, preventing the yellow from being too much for our eyes.

There is also a sense of fun and play that comes with this colour combination. This isn’t a display that would sit quietly in the corner of a house. This is one that calls, “look at me and see how I make you smile!”

Put simply this colour combination makes me happy and I hope it does you too!

Watch below as I put together a simple, floral display.

I hope you enjoyed this, it was so much fun to put together and I enjoyed having a moment to play in the sunshine.

As I was creating the video, I noticed this clip below from a sunrise the past week, look how nature to combines both pink and yellow. She’s a clever beauty.