Color Your Garden - Hardcover

Billington, Jill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823007596 ISBN 13: 9780823007592

Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns, 2004

Synopsis

An in-depth lesson on the uses of color provides practical information on balancing colors in a garden, planning ahead when planting, and how to best use color to express the personality of the gardener, accompanied by a useful color-based plant list.

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Review:

Not only is colour a personal preference but it can dictate how a garden appears - cool, calm, hot, muted. It can also lengthen borders or widen narrow plots, draw the eye away from or to garden features with clever use of its infinitesimal range of hues. Garden writer and designer Jill Billington, in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, brings an inspirational look at colour uses in the garden, utilising her artist's eye to complement, enhance, attract or detract. Cool blues and mauves, fresh greens, sophisticated whites. Brooding purples, vibrant oranges, sunny yellows. All looked at with a view to plant partnerships, situation and effect. Full of inspirational ideas and accompanied by glorious colour photographs and watercolour planting plans, it will give a hesitant, colour-shy gardener the courage to strike out and transform their garden from merely colourful to a more definitive statement. - Lucy Watson

About the Author:

Jill Billington is a successful garden designer, lecturer, and author. She is a regular on the judging panels for the RHS Horticultural Shows, such as the Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court. She lives outside of London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0823007596
• ISBN 13: 9780823007592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192