

Reader question: Why can't I figure out if I'm warm or cool?ġ. Like Light Spring, there’s a warm and cool range for this neutral-warm type of colouring. The yellow is not as warm as True Spring and not as bright because Summer colour properties are mixed in, which also makes the colours a touch cooler.īright Spring is the colouring type where Spring mixes with a bit of Winter, so colours are very pure, not dusty at all, since brightness (pure pigment) is a property of both parent Seasons. Overall, the colours tend to the warm side of middle, giving this group the warm-neutral (or neutral-warm) setting. Light Spring is a neutral colouring, between warm and cool, so they have cooler and warmer versions of all the colours. True Spring is the warmest of the Springs, so warmed with red that it looks almost peachy in the same way that the white looks ivory. The yellow is fairly bright and gentle at the same time, as are all the colours, being in perfect harmony and therefore having shared colour properties. Spring yellow is the colour of warm and clear sunlight. To narrow down the information in the chart above, let's look row by row. As a light colour, it advances so things may seem nearer or larger. We’ll see how Autumn colours are like Summer's in being soft, just asking to be combined, compared with Winter’s colours that shine when they stand alone.

We'll see how Spring’s light appears to shine through colours, making sheerness, layers, and transparency so beautiful, and how Autumn’s light is able to go around objects, making 3D effects so becoming. And to think it’s just built-in biology, already part of you. Wear your own colours together and the unified effect picks up speed, like compound interest, a logarithmic curve, a big effect in a compact space. What makes harmony so powerful is that we see, hear, or taste beauty as a unified whole, in a person, recipe, melody, or appearance. We might not see the colours of our light consciously or separately, but being as sensitive to colour vibration as we are to sound and taste vibration, we register them subconsciously. The colours of our light are the best colours we can wear because they cooperate with what’s already there. Amazing! In humans, that built-in colour harmony is called Season. Cool Season people radiate a cool yellow light, warm Seasons radiate a warm yellow light.Ĭolour harmony is a gift given to every person, meaning that the many colours we emit are already in perfect harmony.

In our case, we emit many different colours of light, yellow among them. We’re not prisms that split light, we are more like coloured objects for absorbing some wavelengths and sending the others out. The light surrounding us is the reason you can see other people and they can see you.

Savvy Gardening also notes that continuing to fertilize at this time could cause chemical burns and leaf damage.As you might expect for a warm-associated colour, warm Seasons (groups of natural colouring) have many choices, as do 4 of the groups with some Spring in their colours (Light Summer, Light Spring, True Spring, Bright Spring).īut everyone has a version of yellow in themselves and therefore among the colours they wear beautifully. By mid-August, you can halve your regular doses and increase the time between feedings, so that by the time you've entered winter, you have ceased applying any fertilizer. The same is true for houseplants, confirms Savvy Gardening. The end result will be aboveground foliage that cannot withstand the harsh conditions of winter and suffering roots underground that are not receiving their rightful dose of the plant's natural energy reserves. It's okay for the underground roots to keep growing, but increasing nitrogen levels in the soil through fertilizer will instead tell the plant to put its energy into growing vegetation. Illinois Extension says there are benefits to planting outdoor perennials just before the first frost however, those plants should not be fertilized because, just like the other plants in your garden, they will begin a natural hardening-off process at the onset of colder temperatures.
