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try these new colour scheme ideas…

✢ Introduce some symmetry to add structure and a classic touch. Topiary is having a moment and this clipped yew is easy to do with a frame, toptopiary.co.uk

✢ If you have a sunny patch of soil, sow a wild flower meadow for an unstructured touch to your planting. Seed mixes are widely available from garden centres and are a great way of encouraging butterflies and bees. Try Nature’s Haven Easy Wildflowers Seeds & Granular Compost Mix, £7.99 for 1.5kg, unwins.co.uk

✢ ultra-violet is the colour trend of the year, according to the experts at Pantone.

Add a pop of purple to borders with a clematis scrambling up a frame,

Hidcote lavender bushes edging paths or pom-pom headed agapanthus to add height.