Colour in the Garden - Lucy Bellamy

A stylish but practical guide to using color in the garden, including small spaces, through the year. 'Bellamy makes gardening seem simple, expressive and joyful. Anyone can do it.' - Evening Standard Jam-red poppies, giant umbels of yellow-flowered fennel, inky blue Agastache, Euphorbia in inchworm green . . . imagine a small garden steeped in color, where ground-hugging bumps of Teucrium and thyme are dotted with tall, diaphanous flowers; salvia, eryngium and single-flowered dahlias in saturated colors. The way we use color in our outside spaces is changing. Color-themed borders with planting strictly planned around the color wheel, and seasonal color highlights maintained to be kept 'just so' have been replaced by changeable, textural planting using plants with different hefts and heights so that color shifts throughout the seasons. Featuring inspirational real gardens, plant lists, a year-round planner and plenty of ideas for using color inventively in containers, this book shares a new approach for using color in small outdoor spaces.