While the impulse to choose high energy primaries or cool blues is often a matter of personal preference, Wilson helps gardeners make a success of those choices by showing how garden colour (in both plants and hard landscaping) works. The size of a garden, light levels, the amount of colour and association with other colours are all critical to the process of making successful colour choices. Colour is a powerful component in the garden and this book is intended to nudge people out of their colour ruts, shake new life into mixed borders and encourage a more experimental approach to the way gardeners perceive, choose and use colour in their gardens. Photographic material is drawn from all over the world and includes both well-known designer gardens and ordinary backyards. * Showcases all the latest hot plant colours * Taps into current awareness that plants and hard landscaping are equally important when designing a garden and the two should work together * Colour is a cheap route to a garden makeover * Standout gardens in Britain, France, New Zealand, Morocco, Mexico and the U.S.A.
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Featured as a top-ten entry in Books to Inspire Your Garden This Autumn: Well, colour is back, at least to judge by this thoughtful publication from one of the country's leading garden-design tutors. Ostensibly it is a picture-driven book, filled with striking images of colourful garden scenes, with plants and "hard materials" playing off each other. The accompanying text will provide food for thought for professional designers and serious amateurs alike. --Tim Richardson, The Telegraph
The art of using colour in both plants and materials, by a leading garden designer. --Gardens Illustrated
In this stimulating book Andrew Wilson stretches readers' perceptions - opening minds towards a better informed understanding of how colour, texture, timbre and light interact to heighten the experience and enjoyment of gardens. Full of ideas and practical advice - as you would expect from Andrew Wilson. --Jackie Herald, Garden Design Journal
This book is a celebration of colour and gives us a chance to marvel at its power, understand how it affects us and how to use the colour wheel when designing our gardens. --Natalie McGettigan
In this stimulating book Andrew Wilson stretches readers' perceptions - opening minds towards a better informed understanding of how colour, texture, timbre and light interact to heighten the experience and enjoyment of gardens. Full of ideas and practical advice - as you would expect from Andrew Wilson. --Jackie Herald, Garden Design Journal
Andrew Wilson is the founder and director of garden design studies at The London College of Garden Design in Regent's Park, London and chair of assessors for the Royal Horticultural Society, specialising in show gardens at the world-famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show. He is also the author of many books and a columnist for Gardens Illustrated magazine, as well as a garden and landscape designer with Wilson McWilliam Associates in London and Surrey, England.
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Condizione: Good. Original blue cloth, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous colour photographs, 4to.; Cut and verso dust jacket slightly foxed; spine slightly skew; Codice articolo 335612-WB1
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