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The Gardener's Book of Colour (Paperback)

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

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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: Frances Lincoln; New edition edition (6 Feb 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0711220549
ISBN-13: 978-0711220546
Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 24.6 x 1.4 cm

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

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 106,900 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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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 )

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 (Oldie )

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A guide to using colour in the garden that explores how to achieve the effect you require, whether you want an instant splash of brilliant seasonal colour, or a border with subtle year-round appeal. It discusses ways to put colour together, and demonstrates the power of colour to change the sense of space, to suggest coolness and warmth and to evoke different moods. The basis of creating harmonizing and contrasting schemes is explained and illustrated with examples. All the major schemes are supported by line drawings giving full planting details. Illustrated plant directories, arranged by colour and flowering season, provide cultivation details for over 850 plants, enabling you to assemble the right plants for your chosen scheme, and to carry that scheme throughout the year.

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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

This review is from: The Gardener's Book of Colour (Hardcover)

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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