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Colour in your garden

Gardiner, Nancy
978-1-875001-21-7

260x210mm
136pp
Softcover with flaps
2001-10-01

This book will help you realize the significance of colours, tones, tints and hues, the difference between blue-pink and salmon-pink, or between russet and crimson. It shows you how to introduce careful colour schemes, rather than make do with haphazard planting; to use well-placed groups of colour to blend harmoniously, or deliberate contrasts to create a dramatic effect. Between the extremes of an over-controlled palette and random ‘hundreds-and-thousands’ dots of mixed colour, there is a wealth of rewarding colour combinations, all discussed at length and lavishly illustrated. Brimful of practical tips and advice, Colour in your garden will help you make the most of colour by fostering an awareness of the enormous range of flowers that can be brought together to create an exquisite overall picture. The contents include: General design ideas The colour wheel in theory and practice Individual colours with combinations Planting suggestions Exhaustive plant lists with botanical and common names, colours and flowering seasons, and growing information And much more. Invaluable to both the novice who is planning a garden from scratch and to “old hands” looking for new ideas and inspiration, Colour in your garden will be welcomed by every keen gardiner.