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Using Colour in the Gardens
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From spring blooms to winter shrubs, the author explains how to achieve stunning combinations and maintain low-maintenance beds and borders. This seasonal approach ensures your garden remains a glorious spectacle in every month.
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This book is ideal for home gardeners seeking expert, straightforward advice on enhancing their gardens with colour across all seasons. It suits beginners and experienced gardeners interested in low-maintenance planting strategies and creating continuous visual interest year-round.
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See moreEnjoy vibrant beds and borders throughout the year, with practical advice and ideas for stunning combinations. Includes a simple reference chart giving planting and flowering times for many common garden plants.
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Using Colour in the Gardens shows you how to create a garden with glorious colour in every season, with 130 photographs. You can enjoy vibrant beds and borders throughout the year with practical advice and ideas for stunning combinations.
It features easy-to-follow instructions for seasonal gardening tasks—from sowing seeds to overwintering flowers—and details of when plants are at their best. It includes planting ideas for low-maintenance, seasonal interest using perennials, bulbs, berries, foliage, stems, evergreen shrubs, heathers, grasses, and conifers.
The book includes a simple reference chart giving planting and flowering times for many common garden plants. As the year progresses, different types of plants come into their own. Bulbs begin to open in spring, hardy perennials make stunning statements in summer, foliage turns golden in the autumn, and shrubs provide interest during the winter months. Discovering which plants are at their best at which times is the secret to ensuring a continuous display, and this book is full of expert instructions for providing successional colour all year long.
Season by season, the book suggests plants for colour, as well as listing the main jobs that need to be done in the garden. Illustrated with over 130 beautiful photographs, the book guarantees permanent interest throughout the year.
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ISBN: 9780754826897
Publisher: Anness Publishing
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 26 June 2013
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Lorenz Books
Illustration: over 130 photographs
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 300g
Pages: 64
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Jackie Matthews has contributed to a wide variety of gardening books, including Looking At Plants (Nelson Thornes) and The Handbook of Gardening (Lorenz Books).
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