Fearless Color Gardens: The Creative Gardener's Guide to Jumping off the Color Wheel

Renowned garden artist and photographer Meadows has run a full-service landscaping company in the San Francisco Bay Area for 30-plus years; her own garden has been featured on a variety of television programs and in numerous magazines, including Sunset, Metropolitan Home, and Horticulture. Gardeners of all experience levels will find inspiration in her delightful book, illustrated throughout with vivid, sometimes whimsical, photographs and drawings. The text is filled with practical suggestions for exploring "color" in general and personal color preferences in particular, for use in creating gardens. Through numerous and varied examples, Meadows demonstrates ways to fully incorporate color knowledge and tastes into dazzling gardens using a full palette of plants, paving, walls, benches, containers, and art objects. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Renowned garden artist Keeyla Meadows sees the world in strong, saturated shades. Fearless Color Gardens brings this unique vision to life by showing how to use wild, uninhibited color to connect indoor and outdoor spaces and turn a garden into a work of art. Learn how to pick colors that work together; how to coordinate the colors of walls, benches, containers, and garden art; how to organize garden spaces through the use of color; and how to translate personal color preferences into tangible form in the garden.

Fearless Color Gardens also features a new way of looking at color with Keeyla's Color Triangle; easy-to use tips on growing edibles in color themed gardens; and Keeyla's favorite plants for specific colors.

In the end, readers will want to reinvent the staid rules of the color wheel and turn their color preferences into intoxicatingly vibrant garden expressions.