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Everyone wants color in their garden, but each gardener's palette is unique. How do you choose the right one for your garden, and how do you find the plants that will help you fulfill your vision? The expert tips and inspiration found in
The Gardener's Palette by award-winning garden designer Jo Thompson is a great place to start.
This stunning book presents a new way for gardeners to consider color that will be familiar to anyone who's ever painted a room. Using the Royal Horticultural Society's industry-standard color chip system, Thompson has created 100 color palettes derived from existing gardens. Readers can easily find a color scheme that appeals to them and then make plant choices that will allow them to recreate the design in their home gardens. Also included are sidebars on color history, ten planting plans, and hundreds of inspiring photographs. The Gardener's Palette, published in partnership with the Royal Horticulture Society, is lush, photo-rich approach to garden design that will appeal to stylish home gardeners everywhere.
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Color can set a mood at a glance--we all choose colors every day to reflect how we're feeling or as personal expression, with our clothing and in our homes. So why can it seem so difficult to choose and use colorful plants well? Since our gardens are where we spend time every day to relax, they should be filled with colors that make us truly happy.
The Gardener's Palette, from the world's most respected gardening organization and a winner of multiple Chelsea Flower Show medals, is an entirely new way for home gardeners to confidently and successfully incorporate color at home. Garden designer Jo Thompson curates 100 evocative and fresh palettes, pairs them with lavishly beautiful images of professionally designed gardens, and then breaks them down with plant-by-plant charts showing which exact species and cultivars are used, and lists full growing specifications so all home gardeners can truly re-create the look themselves. Lush, inspiring, and packed with plants, The Gardener's Palette will be a welcome addition to the shelf of enthusiastic gardeners everywhere.
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Fill Your Garden with Color Everyone wants color in their garden, but each gardener's preferred palette is unique. How do you choose the right one for your garden, and how do you find the plants that will help you fulfill your vision?
The Gardener's Palette, published in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society, shares an entirely new way for home gardeners to confidently incorporate color at home. Award-winning garden designer Jo Thompson offers 100 evocative and fresh palettes, pairs them with beautiful images of professionally designed gardens, and breaks them down with charts showing the exact plants used. Thompson also provides full growing specifications for every plant to allow home gardeners to successfully re-create these stunning gardens.