Creative Vegetable Gardening: Accenting Your Vegetables With Flowers (Hardcover)

by Joy Larkcom (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review
. . . a beautiful book filled with innovative ideas. . . . Anyone who reads this book is bound to have a more beautiful vegetable garden. -- Chattanooga Free Press, 11/30/97

Elements of design and siting are explained and beautifully illustrated in sufficient detail for even novice gardeners who want to embellish their vegetable patches with colorful unexpected elements. Larkcom's prose is enthusiastic and exact. -- Publishers Weekly, 5/5/97 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Description
With this book gardeners can learn the skills needed to beautify existing gardens or create new ones that are both handsome and productive. Chapters includes information on garden design, techniques for propagation and pest control, and more. An extensive A to Z directory of vegetables, herbs, edible flowers, and fruits is also provided. 455 color photos & illustrations. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 204 pages
• Publisher: Artabras Publishers (February 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0896601129
• ISBN-13: 978-0896601123
• Product Dimensions: 10.6 x 10.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,589,675 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Change your garden, change your life!, September 4, 2003

By	M. C. Worden "M C Worden, educator" (NorCal) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars brilliant, April 19, 2006

By	John H. Whicker - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

5.0 out of 5 stars About This Book, August 3, 2008

By	Theseus "theseus" (US of A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Vegetable Gardening: Accenting Your Vegetables With Flowers (1st US Edition) (Hardcover)

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