Color Your Garden - Hardcover

Billington, Jill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823007596 ISBN 13: 9780823007592

Publisher: Watson-Guptill, 2005

Synopsis

Color Your Garden is an invaluable source of inspiration and reference for all gardeners who wish to master the use of color. An artist before she became a garden designer, author Jill Billington's skill in explaining the use of color in planting design is unmatched. Practical guidance is provided on using color in different ways—from bringing harmony and balance to the garden and creating its main focus to spicing the garden up by introducing deliberate contrast. Gardeners are given suggestions on how to group together a variety of plants when planning beds and using them as a border. This guide shows how to best use color to suit the personality of the gardener, and detailed illustrations capture the essence of different moods, based on planting designs using cool, calm pastels or vibrant, vivacious hues. Every page offers beautiful photographs, many of them specially commissioned, offering a continual source of inspiration and showing the rich variety of stunning effects that can be achieved in your garden through the use of color.
· The Royal Horticultural Society, the internationally renowned gardening authority, has for nearly 200 years provided inspiration through its shows, gardens and horticultural expertise

· Includes a color-based plant list that presents a wide palette of plants that will help gardeners become more effective colorists

· More than 20 watercolor illustrations of planting designs are featured

About this title

About the Author

Jill Billington is a successful garden designer, lecturer, and author. She is a regular on the judging panels for the RHS Horticultural Shows, such as the Chelsea Flower Show and Hampton Court. She lives outside of London.

Review

Not only is colour a personal preference but it can dictate how a garden appears - cool, calm, hot, muted. It can also lengthen borders or widen narrow plots, draw the eye away from or to garden features with clever use of its infinitesimal range of hues. Garden writer and designer Jill Billington, in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, brings an inspirational look at colour uses in the garden, utilising her artist's eye to complement, enhance, attract or detract. Cool blues and mauves, fresh greens, sophisticated whites. Brooding purples, vibrant oranges, sunny yellows. All looked at with a view to plant partnerships, situation and effect. Full of inspirational ideas and accompanied by glorious colour photographs and watercolour planting plans, it will give a hesitant, colour-shy gardener the courage to strike out and transform their garden from merely colourful to a more definitive statement. - Lucy Watson

About this edition

• Publisher: Watson-Guptill
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0823007596
• ISBN 13: 9780823007592
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192