Color Your Garden

by Jill Billington

• ISBN13: 9780823007592
• ISBN10: 0823007596
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill

Summary

Color Your Gardenis 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 waysfrom 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

Author Biography

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.