In this landmark guide to transforming your garden settings
into living works of art, bestselling author and celebrity
home garden designer P. Allen Smith draws on his talents as
both master gardener and artist to offer simple ways to
create gardens that burst with color. In P. Allen Smith's
Colors for the Garden, Allen reveals the basic
techniques he uses to fashion the kind of jaw-dropping
creations that have made him one of the country's most
sought-after garden designers.
Exploring the concept
of creating art with flowers and foliage, Allen makes it
easy to paint your "garden canvas" with a perfect palette of
plants in every shade and hue to achieve a variety of
magnificent effects. Here, he simplifies the process of
selecting and creating compelling blends of colors to
complement home and personal style, be it bright and
energizing or more subdued and soothing.
In the first
section of the book, Allen offers five color
confidence-building ways to select a garden palette that
reflects your taste and style; he begins by walking you
through the process of connecting colors both inside and
out, so that the interior and exterior of your home and the
permanent features in your garden become the canvas upon
which you begin to apply your color choices. Allen's
approach establishes a color bond between your home and
garden that blends them into a cohesive unit while enhancing
the beauty of both.
In the next section, Allen
supplies easy yet evocative lessons on how to "paint" your
choice of colors onto your landscape, from creating a garden
canvas to applying bold "brush strokes" of color, shading,
and texture to the garden setting. Finally, marrying the
practical to the creative, Allen provides a complete,
user-friendly plant directory--a color-coded resource guide
that helps you choose the right plants based on their color
theme, growing zone, and light requirements.
Both
inspirational and eminently practical, P. Allen Smith's
Colors for the Garden is an indispensable reference for
gardeners of all skill levels, and a welcome addition to the
bestselling P. Allen Smith Garden Home series.
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