Colour in Your Garden

by Hobhouse, Penelope

• ISBN13: 9780711220584
• ISBN10: 0711220581
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-06
• Publisher: Frances Lincoln

Summary

The sensitive use of colour and foliage lies at the very heart of gardening.enelope Hobhouse explains the principles of colour, visual effects inhanging light conditions, the interplay between colour and texture and thessential design factors that help the gardener to exploit these successfully.he explores the gardener's palette and considers how best to employ it toaint beautiful garden pictures through a catalogue consisting of more than000 plants, grouped first by colour and then by season. Horticulturalnformation is given for each.

Author Biography

Sarah Raven, writer, cook, broadcaster and teacher, is an expert on all things to grow, cut and eat from your garden. She runs cooking, flower arranging and gardening courses from her farm in East Sussex and is the author of several books on gardening. She alsoÿwrites for national newspapers and magazines and is a presenter on BBC Gardeners' World. Sarah is married to the writer Adam Nicolson and has two daughters and three stepsons. They live at Perch Hill Farm in East Sussex.Pia Tryde is an internationally-acclaimed photographer. She lives in Sutton, Suffolk.ÿPenelope Hobhouse is internationally-renowned as a garden designer, writer and historian. She holds the Victoria Medal of Honour, the highest award of the Royal Horticultural Society. She has also received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Guild of Garden Writers and a Quill and Trowel Award from the Garden Writers Association of America.