Pink And Green Is One at www.japanese-home-gardens.com

Pink and green is one of nature's favourite pairings, so it's perfect as a room theme. When leafy and cool, green takes all the sugariness out of pink, making it easy to live with and grown up too. Plenty of white is mixed in to lighten the overall effect and stop the room from looking rigidly two tone.

Next we picked glory of the snow, Chionodoxa lucilae 'Pink Giant', a cultivar that bears eight to ten rose-pink flowers on every stem. And two charming fririllarias, Fritillaria meleagris 'Artemis' with a checkered pattern of purple and green, and 'Poseidon' gleaming white with purple checks.

These evergreen shrubs are grouped according to flower type: single, semi-double, anemone-form, peony-form, rose-form, formal double, and irregular double. These are produced above glossy green leaves. C. japonica "Alba" has single white flowers with yellow centers; C. j. "Rubescens Major" is a formal double with deep pink flowers; C. j. "Mathotiana" has formal double red-pink flowers, C x williamsii "Donation" is a semi-double with mid-pink flowers; C. x u>. "Clarrie Fawcett" has pale pink, semi-double flowers; and "Anticipation," a peony type, has dark-pink flowers (pictured below).