Color For Adventurous Gardeners
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Author | : Christopher Lloyd |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Color in gardening |
ISBN | : 0563521716 |
Here, at last, is a book on gardening with colour by its most adventurous exponent -Christopher Lloyd. COLOUR FOR ADVENTUROUS GARDENERS is about using colour for maximum impact.No border, no garden is ever monochromatic and even an all-green garden consists of many shades, yet books for gardeners treat each colour as a separate entity and, like painting by numbers, set out rules to be followed. With a chapter on every colour -from 'Challenging Orange' to 'Sophisticated Black', Christopher Lloyd explores each colour in relation to others and discusses the rules in order to encourage the gardener to break them. 'The limitations imposed by rules,' he writes, 'are a safe-haven, but the adventurous gardener will want to try something different.'If a colour is 'polite', Lloyd certainly knows how to liven it up without making it vulgar. In a fashionable all-white border, he advocates a touch of clear pink to make you sit up; he suggests bright scarlet rose hips in a purple bed to introduce a note of rebellion.COLOUR FOR ADVENTUROUS GARDENERS is NOT another book on gardening with colour. It's opinionated, it's controversial and it's the most colourful book on plant associations you'll ever read.
Author | : Christopher Lloyd |
Publisher | : Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Color in gardening |
ISBN | : 9781552975305 |
An illustrated gardening book about using color for its maximum impact and understanding successful color associations with plants.
Author | : Christopher Lloyd |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Exotic plants |
ISBN | : 0563493194 |
Describes the plants grown by Christopher Lloyd in his garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex.
Author | : Christopher Lloyd |
Publisher | : Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2021-05-13 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1474619908 |
'The best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times' GUARDIAN 'Christopher Lloyd ranks with Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West as one of the major figures in twentieth-century British gardening' THE TIMES In this gardening classic the forever adventurous Christopher Lloyd takes us on a tour through the garden, to encourage, to reveal and to overturn the old and accepted when experience prompts him. He advises on cuttings, pruning, the art of compromise and takes another look at Miss Jekyll. Gardening was a passion, and throughout his life he developed Great Dixter to be one of Britain's greatest gardens. For Christo gardening is nothing if not fun and - pointing out that 'to be roused into an argumentative frame of mind is in itself no bad thing' - he makes it equally stimulating and enjoyable for his readers.
Author | : Nick Bailey |
Publisher | : Hachette UK |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2018-08-27 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 0857836242 |
A beautifully photographed guide for gardeners keen to attain the elusive colour-packed 'year-round garden'. Covering ideas on how to use, combine, design with and prolong colour, the book focuses on achievable ways of growing plants of every tone through 12 months of the year. It provides gardeners with an inspiring and surprising palette of plants to furnish their plots with sumptuous colour with detailed lists for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Bursting with practical advice on establishment and maintenance, the book also embraces plants for pots, cutting, difficult spaces and tiny gardens, and features long-season gardens from around the world.
Author | : William C. Mulligan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : |
This authoritative resource is sure to become a new standard for serious gardeners interested in unusual flowers, trees, and shrubs. Superbly illustrated with glorious full-color photographs by acclaimed gardening authority Elvin McDonald, it's an essential compendium for any gardener who has outgrown the ordinary and is ready for a new and truly creative challenge. 200 photos.
Author | : Peter Smithers |
Publisher | : Harvill Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Gardeners |
ISBN | : 9781860460593 |
"The gardener/politician shares his experiences at Oxford, in naval intelligence, and in such diplopmatic posts as Washington, Mexico, and France"--Amazon.com.
Author | : Jan McNeilan |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Landscape gardening |
ISBN | : 0878339566 |
More than 200 lists for Pacific Northwest gardeners.
Author | : Christopher Lloyd |
Publisher | : Timber Press (OR) |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : |
This unique book is a dialogue between two extraordinarily knowledgeable and opinionated plantsmen who offer valuable advice on which seed-raised flowers to grow, how to germinate and tend to them, and how to use them in the garden. The discussion is informative, urbane, and entertaining.Published at $22.95 Available Now at $11.49
Author | : Benjamin Vogt |
Publisher | : New Society Publishers |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2017-09-01 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1771422459 |
In a time of climate change and mass extinction, how we garden matters more than ever: “An outstanding and deeply passionate book.” —Marc Bekoff, author of The Emotional Lives of Animals Plenty of books tell home gardeners and professional landscape designers how to garden sustainably, what plants to use, and what resources to explore. Yet few examine why our urban wildlife gardens matter so much—not just for ourselves, but for the larger human and animal communities. Our landscapes push aside wildlife and in turn diminish our genetically programmed love for wildness. How can we get ourselves back into balance through gardens, to speak life's language and learn from other species? Benjamin Vogt addresses why we need a new garden ethic, and why we urgently need wildness in our daily lives—lives sequestered in buildings surrounded by monocultures of lawn and concrete that significantly harm our physical and mental health. He examines the psychological issues around climate change and mass extinction as a way to understand how we are short-circuiting our response to global crises, especially by not growing native plants in our gardens. Simply put, environmentalism is not political; it's social justice for all species marginalized today and for those facing extinction tomorrow. By thinking deeply and honestly about our built landscapes, we can create a compassionate activism that connects us more profoundly to nature and to one another.