Gardener's Book of Colour [Hardcover]

Andrew Lawson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 7, 1996

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".

Editorial Reviews

Review

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 --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

As well as being a distinguished garden photographer -- he holds the Royal Horticultural Society's Gold Medal for photography -- Andrew Lawson is a painter, a passionate and knowledgeable gardener, and author of several successful gardening books. To visit Andrew Lawson's website click here --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln; First Edition edition (March 7, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 034062261X
• ISBN-13: 978-0340622612
• ASIN: 0711209901
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 10 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,002,933 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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