The evergreens, whose color persists in Hobart Nichols's "Snow Scene -- Westchester County," are painted as amalgams of quick marks, and were perhaps inspired by Asian art.
Color Options: Evergreen pearl, havasu blue, nighthawk black, redrock pearl, sage brush pearl, sandstone metallic, starlight silver, taffeta white.
Drip irrigation had been rigged for them, but they were baked by the sun and blown flat by the wind; a full third had that peculiar rust-red hue, the vivid color of an evergreen's death.
And Timo Weiland, a new designer worth a look, excelled in color combinations like evergreen with asphalt, and a dove-gray plaid shot through with berry red, shown as a toggle coat.
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The wool fisherman's cable throw ($148), in colors like chocolate and evergreen, calls to mind a favorite sweater.
If the various colors and textures of evergreen cuttings do not make enough of a statement, combine them with an inexpensive bouquet of white mini-carnations.
You can also do it on your own: look out for color contrasts among neighboring evergreens, from deep green to frosty almost-blue.
The old garden had an exuberant amount of color, texture and change, not very many evergreens, and that's exactly what the 1950 style tended to eliminate.
Green is one of the Christmas colors as well, possibly dating back to pre-Christian times, when evergreens were worshiped for their ability to maintain their color through the winter season.
