Modeste Herwig: Colorful Gardens. Contrast & Combine Your Plants & Flowers for Spectacular Visual Effects

USE RICH REDS, bright yellows, subtle blues, and other brilliant colors to turn an ordinary garden into an amazingly lush landscape filled with remarkably hued foliage all year long. Want a garden of snow-white lilies glistening against a backdrop of vivid violets? Or would you like a sea of red roses of varying shades all blending to form a garden worthy of the finest artist's painting? You can achieve dramatic effects with this must-have, fullcolor guide for all enthusiastic gardeners.
Visually stimulating, a separate chapter is devoted to each of nine principal colors. The author details the symbolism and effects of the chosen color, paying close attention to the character of that color and to successful combinations with other hues. White flowers – lilies, roses and carnations – symbolize purity and look beautiful on summer nights by reflecting all the available light. The orange in marigolds and poppies, and the rich hues of orange-colored autumn leaves bring warmth and radiance to any garden, even on the cloudiest of days.
For each color, an easy-to- follow, creative plan for a border design is fully diagrammed so that you can highlight and combine different hues in your own garden. Superbly detailed watercolor illustrations, painted by the author herself, will inspire anyone to begin designing a colorful garden. Give your garden an aura all its own by applying this inspirational concept of combining and contrasting colorful plants and flowers.