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Creative Vegetable Gardening: Accenting Your Vegetables With Flowers (1st US Edition)

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This book was given to me as a Mother's day present... and I thank my mother-in-law every time I open it! As an organic gardening teacher in a Montessori elementary school, I have found this book to be inspirational to children and grown-ups alike. The photos are gorgeous, of course. But it is the way Larkom puts her gardens together that is the most compelling aspect of this beautiful book. You will never look at your vegetable (or flower) garden the same. Mixing edible flowers into vegetable beds in stunning geometric patterns, weaving intriquing and useful elements like benches and fences out of willow or other local materials, making phantasmagorical trellises for peas and other climbers, creating an environment for you to spend hours of pure joy while eating fresh, organic food... does it get any better than this? The end of the book features an alphabetical listing with pictures and growing info on most of the plants she works with as well as great how-to tips on every aspect of home gardening. My students, after looking through the pictures, cannot wait to get to work making a dream garden for all of us to thrive in. Just buy it!

I loved this book! I love picture books, so this satisfied my desire to stare in awe at gorgeous gardens, however, it also was very detailed and explicit in how to content. I thought it was the perfect balance between inspiration and explanation.

The following details relate to the Abbeville Press, 1st US Edition...

Green cloth over hardback boards with a sewn binding, 208 pp.

Highlights from the Table of Contents
1. The Magic in Vegetable Gardening
- starting at home
- threads of inspiration
- contemporary approaches
- the home of the edible landscape

2. Elements of Design
- plan of a formal potager
- plan of an informal potager
- plan of a small, urban potager
- plan of a low-maintenance potager
- plan of a winter potager
- patterns and bed shapes

3. Dramatic Effects
- planting for effect
- architectural and dramatic plants
- drama from seedheads and flowering vegetables
- climbers
- textured effects
- seedling patches
- intercropping

4. Fruit as a Decorative Feature

5. Potager Management

6. A-Z Directory of plants