Gardener's Palette : Creating Color in the Garden

by Eddison, Sydney

• ISBN13: 9780809298938
• ISBN10: 0809298937
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-20
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

The Gardener's Palette is an easy-to-use guide that will help you gain color confidence in the garden. In a conversational manner, expert gardener Sydney Eddison draws you into the garden and shows you how colors work together to create different moods and sensations. Starting with simple examples of contrast and harmony, you will learn to look at color in a new way. As you become more aware of the use of color in art, design, and the natural landscape, you will develop a personal color sense. The Gardener's Palette will help you create and implement effective color schemes of your own. In addition to your new understanding of the nuances of color, you will become aware of the serenity evoked by gentle pinks, blues, and lavenders or the excitement of hot yellows and vivid scarlets. By looking at color in landscapes, in the world around you, and in the works of master painters, you will see how art borrows its hues from nature. To help you, the book explores the color schemes that appealed to painters from Turner to Monet and van Gogh. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Sydney Eddison teaches gardening at the prestigious New York Botanical Garden and lectures widely. She writes regularly for top consumer magazines, including Fine Gardening and Horticulture.

Stephen Silk is an awardwinning garden photographer whose work graces the pages of leading gardening magazines, including Fine Gardening.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Rediscovering the Color Wheel: Color Theory in Brief	p. 1
The Vocabulary of Color: Speaking a Common Language	p. 13
Nature and Art: Looking at Color	p. 39
Harmony and Contrast: How Color Schemes Work	p. 61
Garden Color Schemes: Thematic Gardens	p. 73
From Collage to Containers: Experimenting with Color	p. 91
Annuals and Tender Perennials for Containers: Choosing the Best	p. 107
Appearances: The Way We See Colors in the Garden	p. 121
Nature's Choice: The Benign Influence of Green	p. 131
Gray: The Good Neighbor	p. 145
White: Star Quality	p. 159
Background Colors: They Also Serve Who Only Stand and Wait	p. 171
Choices: Limiting the Means	p. 183
The Magic Number Three: Another Way to Limit the Means	p. 203
Borrowing Color Schemes: The Sincerest Form of Flattery	p. 217
The Last Word	p. 231
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