The Bold and Brilliant Garden

The Bold and Brilliant Garden

The Bold and Brilliant Garden

The Bold and Brilliant Garden

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Overview

Sarah Raven offers gardeners an intoxicating and revolutionary new approach to creating vibrant gardens which reach out and grab you.

Want to create a dramatic garden that leaves a lasting impression? This stunning guide offers a new approach to planning and planting, encouraging you to throw caution to the wind and orchestrate colours, textures, scale and scent to spectacular effect from spring until autumn.

The key is colour: intense, strong and voluptuous such as deep crimsons combined with acid green and incandescent orange. Integral to the vision is a feeling for dramatic scale: plants with huge presence, architectural foliage, strong, sculptural shapes and to complete the effect, flowers with silken and velvety textures and flooding the garden with scent.

There are schemes for sunny, open beds and borders for shady areas, for damp soils and to clothe walls and fences - many of which include lots of quick-growing annuals and take only a season to achieve, so there will be something here for all gardeners regardless of the space or situation you are working with.

This is the go-to guide for achieving a spectacular and striking garden.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780711217522
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Publication date: 01/28/2008
Pages: 168
Sales rank: 308,347
Product dimensions: 9.25(w) x 11.25(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

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 also writes 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.

Table of Contents

Foreword7
Introduction8
Spring14
Early spring planting in sun and partial shade16
Mid spring planting in sun and partial shade22
Planting in shade27
Early Summer36
Planting in sun38
Planting in shade55
Planting in damp ground in sun and partial shade58
High Summer72
Planting in sun74
Planting in damp ground in sun and partial shade102
Late Summer110
Planting in sun112
Planting in shade137
Planting in damp ground in sun and partial shade141
Autumn146
Planting in sun148
Planting in shade157
Planting in damp ground in sun and partial shade158
Mail order suppliers162
Hardiness zones162
Index of plants, with hardiness zones163
Acknowledgments168
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