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The Gardener's Book of Colour (Hardcover)

by Andrew Lawson (Author, Photographer) "Nature gives us a way in which we can arrange colours in order and establish relationships between them ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 192 pages
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd (7 Mar 1996)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0711209901
ISBN-13: 978-0711209909

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 547,827 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This guide takes colour way beyond the existing guides for gardeners. It adds new dimensions to the art of gardening, and shows the gardener how to put plants together to make personal and effective combinations. It explores not only single-colour plantings, but also the wide range of colour associations available to the gardener for "painting" pictures with plants.;The book caters for every taste and every mood, exploring soothing gardens based on varying hues of greens, restrained palettes limited to a narrow range of colour harmonies, as well as striking contrasts creating a riot of colour. It includes extensive lists of the most useful plants for colour-rich schemes with full cultivation notes. Artwork showing full planting details enables gardeners to put their ideas into practice.;Andrew Lawson is the photographer for Rosemary Verey's "Good Planting" and "The Garden in Winter", Stephen Lacey's "Scent Your Garden", HRH The Prince of Wales's "Highgrove, Portrait of an Estate" and "Penelope Hobhouse On Gardening". He is the author of "Performance Plants".

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5.0 out of 5 stars Reads as well as it looks., 18 Mar 2001

By	melanie.darke@btinternet.com (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

With most gardening books I'm too tempted to skim the text in favour of the pictures - not so with this informative and easy to understand guide to colour theory in the garden.

I originally bought the book because of the outstandingly beautiful photographs showing flower borders skillfully and tastefully schemed within the different colours of the spectrum and some that mix and match as well.

Many of the photos are reproduced in line drawings at the back of the book showing clearly how one might reproduce the effect oneself.

However if you have ever been fed up or just switched off at the theory of how to acheive a borders like these this may be the book for you - dealing as it does with the colour wheel, colour saturation, shape and texture and the most striking aspect for me, the mixture of light and dark tones. This was demonstrated by a photo of a green and gold garden and one entirely composed of red plants. When shown in black and white the differance in tonal range was striking.

Any garden lover will not fail to be engaged by the beauty of this book, but those of you to whom colour scheming was until now just a mystery will learn much once you have finished drooling over the photos!

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