A guide to effectively using hot colors in small gardens challenges current beliefs about classic English gardens and offers advice on design, building materials, balancing color, and temperature. 12,500 first printing.
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The author of A Proper Garden does an about face and leads the charge out of the cool, refined colors of the classic English border into scintillating gardens of "orange, vermilion, scarlet, and strong yellows." She describes in chatty prose the development of her own enclosed hot-color garden in upstate New York, where once scorned dahlias, marigolds and salvias blaze in combination with "gaudy" cultivars of other common annuals, perennials, vines, shrubs and bulbs. Chock-full of informative tidbits, the text rambles on a tour of bright-blossomed (and leaved) plants that Sheldon has successfully included in her garden. While she consistently hedges her enthusiastic recommendations with second thoughts (an approach that may bewilder beginning gardeners but will entertain veterans who may recognize their own moments of ambivalence and frustration), Sheldon demonstrates how to tame and harmonize hot garden residents with deep purples, burgundy and mahogany and provides appropriate plant lists at the ends of chapters. As the scope of possibilities swells from glowing ("satin blossoms of chocolate cosmos" backed by perilla's "smoky, brown-red leaves") to pyrotechnic (black hollyhocks behind red-orange dahlias and "flaming daylilies"), Sheldon goes far toward demonstrating that flamboyant need not be tacky, painting a vision to open the most dubious eyes.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Hot" colors in garden design have intimidated even accomplished gardeners, who often find it easier to simply avoid plantings that endeavor to integrate brilliant oranges, bright reds, and vibrant yellows. Telling the story of the development of her new, very colorful enclosed garden, Sheldon addresses in lively writing the fearful legions, encouraging them to break with a tradition based on the exemplary designs of English garden writers to try a bolder approach. It is pure pleasure to follow along as Sheldon describes how she chose the location, bought fence materials, and, of course, selected the plants. Enticing plant lists provide ideas for combining plants. Alice Joyce
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Sheldon's book is lively, unique and informative. Dency Kane's sensual, vibrant photos are exquisite.
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