This is a roughly analogous combination, but because the color green adds to the display, it qualifies as a roughly triadic harmony. In any event, if it pleases the gardener, it’s a success!

Experiment with color wheels: Use color wheel tools to explore complementary, analogous and triadic color schemes. These can help you create harmonious and visually appealing color combinations ...

The harmonious color combinations are called color schemes – sometimes the term ‘color harmonies’ is also used. Color schemes remain harmonious regardless of the rotation angle.

Color principles - complimentary, analogous, and monochromatic - inform flower bouquets.

With the use of complementary, monochromatic, analogous, triadic, or even tetradic color combinations, color palettes can be vibrant, complementary, contrasting, unifying, calming, deep, and complex.

You can also get more complicated with color combinations like triadic and split-complementary. Here's a helpful graphic from a KISSmetrics infographic: ...

These little orange and violet shades workhorses allowed me to create a triadic blend of color with the lime green foliage of Rockin Golden Delicious salvia and blue hydrangea blossoms.

ColorHexa will also generate matching color schemes such as complementary, split complementary, analogous, triadic, tetradic and monochromatic colors. So you will be able to know what colors best ...