The Nonstop Color Garden: Design Flowering Landscapes & Gardens For Year-round Enjoyment
by Nellie Neal /
2014 / English / EPUB
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Your garden can be a kaleidoscope of color in every
season!
Your garden can be a kaleidoscope of color in every
season!
Ask any gardener and they will tell you, color is the most
important (and most fun!) part of garden design. In
Ask any gardener and they will tell you, color is the most
important (and most fun!) part of garden design. InThe
Nonstop Color Garden
The
Nonstop Color Garden, author
, authorNellie Neal
Nellie Neal shows how to
use color as an exciting element in your garden during all four
seasons--and it's not just flowers! Year-round color is possible
by including trees, shrubs, and groundcovers that produce
colorful berries and bark, as well as flowers during spring and
summer. Even the shapes of plants can enhance your garden by
providing all-season architectural interest--Nellie makes it easy
to explore it all.
shows how to
use color as an exciting element in your garden during all four
seasons--and it's not just flowers! Year-round color is possible
by including trees, shrubs, and groundcovers that produce
colorful berries and bark, as well as flowers during spring and
summer. Even the shapes of plants can enhance your garden by
providing all-season architectural interest--Nellie makes it easy
to explore it all.The Nonstop Color Garden
The Nonstop Color Garden is perfect for
the more experienced gardener, but even an engaged novice will
find much to learn about the best plants for nonstop color,
garden structure, and garden design. Nellie presents several
strategies for crafting a thematically cohesive yet unstylized
landscape that includes plant selection and placement. Use the
balanced juxtaposition of opposites in texture, size, shape and
color. Create unifying pairings of similar foliage types. Work
with existing land forms and indigenous vegetation. Everyone who
takes pride and pleasure in their garden will not want to miss
this informative, fun, colorful book!
is perfect for
the more experienced gardener, but even an engaged novice will
find much to learn about the best plants for nonstop color,
garden structure, and garden design. Nellie presents several
strategies for crafting a thematically cohesive yet unstylized
landscape that includes plant selection and placement. Use the
balanced juxtaposition of opposites in texture, size, shape and
color. Create unifying pairings of similar foliage types. Work
with existing land forms and indigenous vegetation. Everyone who
takes pride and pleasure in their garden will not want to miss
this informative, fun, colorful book!