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Chargement... Colour for Adventurous Gardeners (2001)par Christopher Lloyd, Jonathan Buckley (Photographe)
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Gardening with colour by its most adventurous exponent - this book is about using colour for maximum impact. No garden is ever monochromatic and even an all-green garden consists of many shades. Lloyd explores each colour in relation to others and encourages the reader to break the rules. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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First, he gives us the basics- mainly, that color is one of the last things you worry about when creating a garden. Structure, good soil, and the rest come first. Color is easy to change (except for trees), but it’s a lot harder to change up hardscape. He points out that color harmonies are wonderful, and that he uses them a lot himself.. but.. he likes some excitement in the garden. So he pairs something like an intense orange dahlia with a purple verbena. Sometimes shocking color is fun. He says that you need to know the rules before you can break them, but that one should go for wild combos.
Then he give a chapter to each color, running through the spectrum and including black and brown. He gives a lot of plants that fit the chapter, including what growing conditions they like. The book is filled with gorgeous photos, as well. It’s not a coffee table book of all pictures and little info; it’s got a lot of information, provided in an informal voice, as if you were talking to him out in the garden or discussing the garden over tea. Five stars. ( )