Colour Garden S.
4 total works
As part of the "Colour Garden Series", this text focuses on the yellow family of flowers and plants, exploring the possibilities of tint, tone and hue. Each of the four volumes presents the most effective and aesthetic uses for a specific colour theme and gives detailed plant lists for each, along with cultivation instructions and blooming periods. Organized into chapters on beds and borders, the water garden, spring yellow and summer and autumn golds, and finishing with a section on complementary colour schemes, this book provides a palette of ideas for anyone who wants to create a garden with impact.
In the "Colour Garden Series", the possibilites of tint, tone and hue are explored and depicted. Each of the volumes presents the most effective and aesthetic uses for a specific colour theme and gives detailed plant lists for each, along with cultivation instructions and blooming periods. This text explores the blue family, from the tranquil to the electric, the steel blue-grey of ornamental grasses to the more traditional charms of forget-me-knots and bluebells. Organized into the following chapters: "Beds and Borders"; "The Rock Garden"; "The Cottage Garden"; "The Butterfly Garden"; and finishing with a section on complementary colour schemes, this text offers a palette of ideas for anyone who wants to create a garden with impact.
This series explores the possibilities of tint, tone and hue. Each of the volumes in the series presents the most effective and aesthetic uses for a specific colour scheme and gives detailed plant lists for each, along with cultivation instructions and blooming periods. Inspired by Vita Sackville-West's White Garden at Sissinghurst, this volume focuses on the pure allure of white - from the moonflower vine with its night-flowering trumpet-shaped blooms to spires of delphinium. Organized into chapters on beds and borders, moonlight gardens and roses, the fragrance garden, silver and white, white aquatics and complementary colour schemes, this book provides a palette of ideas for anyone who wishes to create a garden with impact.
The "Colour Garden Series" explores the possibilities of tint, tone and hue. Each of the four volumes presents the most effective and aesthetic uses for a specific colour theme and supplies detailed plant lists for each, along with cultivation instructions and blooming periods. Focusing on the red family of flowers and plants, this text presents the fiery shades of vibrant scarlet and salmon to the cool cerise of cistus and velvety tea roses of the palest pink. Organized into chapters on beds and borders, containers, roses, foliage and fruit, and finishing with a section on complementary colour schemes, this book offers a palette of ideas for anyone who wants to create a garden with impact.