The Gardener's Book of Colour

By: Andrew Lawson

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Hardcover | 21 January 2015 | Edition Number 2

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Hardcover
232 Pages

Edition Type
Revised

Age
0

Dimensions(cm)
23.5 x 17.5 x 2

Hardcover

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Revised and updated, a complete guide to creating color effects in the garden

Andrew Lawson has an artist's eye, a scientist's training, and long experience as both a gardener and a photographer of gardens. In this book he calls on all his skills and practical knowledge to illuminate the complex subject of using color in the garden and to demonstrate the extraordinary power of color to change the sense of space, to suggest coolness or warmth, and to evoke different moods. The Gardener's Book of Colour shows how to put colors together in garden beds, borders, and containers, explaining how to construct harmonizing and contrasting schemes and exuberant displays of mixed color. All the major schemes are supported by keyline drawings giving full planting details. In addition, illustrated plant directories, arranged by color and flowering season, provide cultivation details for more than 850 plants, enabling you to assemble the right plants for your chosen scheme and to carry that scheme through the year. Authoritative and accessible, The Gardener's Book of Colour will stimulate your imagination and put exciting new ideas within your grasp. Whether you want an instant splash of brilliant seasonal color or a sumptuous border with subtle year-round appeal, this book will show you how to achieve it.

Industry Reviews

"The word "definitive" makes me nervous, but once you have The Gardener's Book of Colour, I should be surprised if you ever needed another book on the subject." - Ursula Buchan, Sunday Telegraph "As well thought out and thorough as it is possible such a book to be ... but of course, it is the big photographs in the book that make it special. And not just because some of them are captivatingly beautiful, but because they are all organically related to the text."- The Oldie "He talks with reassuring simplicity on such basic yet essential matters as light saturation, tones and colour distribution, so that newcomers to gardening, as well as old hands, will find themselves understanding the huge and potentially complex subject of colour in the garden. This is a constructive book, and beautiful, too." - Hortus

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