Product Description

Here, at last, is a book on gardening with color by its most adventurous exponent, Christopher Lloyd. Color for Adventurous Gardeners is about using color for maximum impact.

Previous books on gardening with color have treated each color as a separate entity, but, in fact, colors work with and against each other, and must be viewed as relationships. This is the first book on gardening with color that explores how to make successful color associations with plants. Yes, there are color rules, but you have to know when and how to break them.

Offering expert views based on his many years of experience, Christopher Lloyd explores each color and encourages readers to be adventurous and daring. "The limitations imposed by rules," he writes, "are a safe-haven, but the adventurous gardener will want to try something different."

Color for Adventurous Gardeners includes over 200 stunning photographs throughout its 11 chapters, each followed by a recommended plant list:

• Red - Nothing to Fear
• Challenging Orange
• True Blues are Few
• The Value of Mauve
• Enigmatic Green
• Broken White
• Cheerful Yellow
• The Truth about Pink
• Sunlit Purple
• Brown Studies
• Sophisticated Black

Informative and inspiring photographs by Jonathan Buckley illustrate Lloyd's colorful writing on a colorful subject, making Color for Adventurous Gardeners both a visual feast and an entertaining read.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1162394 in Books
• Published on: 2001-09-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

Review
Lloyd leads readers through the world of color, introducing an alternative way of looking at color combinations in the garden. (Kathy Diemer Fine Gardening 20020501)

Helpful and inspirational book ... plenty of nitty-gritty about the suggested blooms -- and plenty of Lloyd's droll advice. (San Jose Mercury News 20010921)

Every color can be successfully used with any other color in the right circumstances, and [Lloyd] proves his point. (Indianapolis Star 20010915)

Colors strike powerful emotional chords and Lloyd knows how to wring the most out them. (Suzanne Hively Plain Dealer 20010914)

If gardening is your hobby and bold color is your desire, you won't find a better guide than [this]. (Sylvia Jenkins Central Coast Adventures 20020801)

Perhaps the most stimulating practical design book this season ... This book has nothing but good ideas in it. (Verlyn Klinkenborg New York Times Book Review 20011202)

The best book of the year ... It is not often a book on gardening makes me chuckle with delight. (Steve Whysall Vancouver Sun 20011130)

Mimic nature's magic touch and create dramatically colorful results... inspiring. (Chatelaine )

Indianapolis Star, September 15, 2001
Convinced every color can be successfully used with any other color in the right circumstances, and [Lloyd] proves his point.

Verlyn Klinkenborg, New York Times Book Review, December 2, 2001
Perhaps the most stimulating practical design book this season ... This book has nothing but good ideas in it.