Color For Adventurous Gardeners

Author : Christopher Lloyd
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0563521716
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colour for Adventurous Gardeners written by Christopher Lloyd and published by Random House. This book was released on 2004 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9781552975305
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Color for Adventurous Gardeners written by Christopher Lloyd and published by Willowdale, Ont. : Firefly. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated gardening book about using color for its maximum impact and understanding successful color associations with plants.

Author : Christopher Lloyd
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1474619908
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventurous Gardener written by Christopher Lloyd and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 : Christopher Lloyd
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0563493194
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exotic Planting for Adventurous Gardeners written by Christopher Lloyd and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the plants grown by Christopher Lloyd in his garden at Great Dixter in East Sussex.

Author : Nick Bailey
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0857836242
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 365 Days of Colour In Your Garden written by Nick Bailey and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Smithers
Publisher : Harvill Press
ISBN 13 : 9781860460593
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adventures of a Gardener written by Peter Smithers and published by Harvill Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The gardener/politician shares his experiences at Oxford, in naval intelligence, and in such diplopmatic posts as Washington, Mexico, and France"--Amazon.com.

Author : Keeyla Meadows
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
ISBN 13 : 0881929409
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fearless Color Gardens written by Keeyla Meadows and published by Timber Press (OR). This book was released on 2009 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates how to apply uninhibited plant colors to connect indoor and outdoor spaces while transforming a garden into an artistic site, counseling readers on such topics as color-coordinating plants with their surroundings, creating themed gardens and caring for edible plants.

Author : Benjamin Vogt
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1771422459
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Garden Ethic written by Benjamin Vogt and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Amanda Thomsen
Publisher : Storey Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603429867
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kiss My Aster written by Amanda Thomsen and published by Storey Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combines illustrations with advice and suggestions for creating a garden tailored to personal specifications, including planting privacy hedges, laying out flower beds, building a patio, and digging a duck pond.

Author : William C. Mulligan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Adventurous Gardener's Sourcebook of Rare and Unusual Plants written by William C. Mulligan and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.