Colorful Gardens: Contrast & Combine Your Plants & Flowers for Spectacular Visual Effects - Hardcover

Herwig, Modeste

9780806906256: Colorful Gardens: Contrast & Combine Your Plants & Flowers for Spectacular Visual Effects

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0806906251 ISBN 13: 9780806906256

Publisher: Sterling Pub Co Inc, 1994

This full-colour guide provides ideas and suggestions for creating visually-effective, dramatic displays of colour in the garden. Each of the nine chapters is devoted to one of the principle colours. The author details the symbolism and effects of the chosen colour, paying attention to its character and its combination with other hues. For example, the orange in marigolds and lilies, and the rich orange-coloured autumn leaves bring warmth to a garden, even on cloudy days. Other suggestions include using snow-white lilies against a backdrop of vivid violets; and a sea of red roses of varying shades.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Dutch

From Booklist:

Early in this century, doyenne Gertrude Jekyll penned a seminal book on the use of color in the garden. Here, once again, color takes center stage, with Herwig providing an introduction to color theory as it pertains to gardening. She goes on to devote nine chapters to monochromatic and analogous color schemes for flower borders. An illustration depicts each overall border design and is supported by a plant list arranged according to specific colors. Throughout, photographs show mature gardens using beautiful plant combinations, while the final segment offers ideas based upon contrasting hues. Alice Joyce

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