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The Elegant and Edible Garden

Design a Dream Kitchen Garden to Fit Your Personality, Desires, and Lifestyle
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The Elegant and Edible Garden by Linda Vater explores the art of combining ornamental and edible plants to craft gardens that are both visually enchanting and richly productive. Muttering the French potager tradition, Vater guides readers through creating formal yet flexible kitchen gardens where fruits, vegetables, flowers, and herbs flourish side by side. The book covers principles of design such as symmetry, rhythm, and harmony, advises on incorporating family lifestyle needs, and offers tips for organic growing and positioning garden structures to create inviting outdoor spaces ideal for entertaining.
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This book is perfect for home gardeners, garden designers, and anyone interested in creating stylish, productive kitchen gardens that combine beauty with edible bounty. It suits both beginners seeking inspiration and experienced gardeners looking to refine their potager design.

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With guidance from The Elegant and Edible Garden, you'll learn how to create a one-of-a-kind food garden that's just as beautiful as it is functional.

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Discover how to partner ornamental plants with edible ones for a garden that offers both storybook appeal and a plethora of culinary delights. Stylish and celebratory, The Elegant and Edible Garden takes food growing to a higher plane.

Host of The Potager Blog (@potagerblog), author and garden stylist Linda Vater shares her vision for creating a garden space where food and flowers grow side by side. Known as a potager, these gardens are formal in their framework yet flexible and personal in their edible yields. A potager garden is both lovely to look at and productive. Doubling as an outdoor living area, it is also the perfect place to entertain family and friends. Inside you'll learn:

  • How to grow flowers, fruits, veggies, and herbs together en masse
  • The function of symmetry in a potager garden
  • Ways to create visual harmony and match the style of the garden to its surroundings
  • Tips for blending your family's needs and lifestyle into the garden
  • Advice on how to utilise focal points and garden ornaments in your garden's layout
  • The importance of rhythm, repetition, and harmony in potager design
  • How to position garden structures with practicality and purpose in mind
  • Where to put your potager for not just convenience but also to create a destination
  • Best practices for growing your beautiful new garden organically

Create a garden that rejoices in seasonality while still allowing your style and personality to shine. The Elegant and Edible Garden is a vision of the very best things a garden can offer: food, beauty, connection, and a place to breathe.

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"Perhaps most importantly, Vater reminds us that the joy is in our gardening journeys and in the multifaceted beauty of the gardens we create and share with others." β€” Andrea Siegel, Washington Gardener. "Are you looking for the perfect gardening book to inspire you to create the perfect kitchen garden? If so, we think you will love The Elegant & Edible Garden." β€” Susan Bewley, Budget Earth. "With a bow to necessity, it is possible to create the garden of our dreams," praises the Connecticut Horticultural Society in their review.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780760372371

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 15 March 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Cool Springs Press

Illustration: 200 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 900g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Linda Vater is a garden designer and stylist who writes and produces garden content for TV, magazines, social media, and her own website. She has lived and gardened at her 1935 English Tudor home in Oklahoma City for the past 30 years. Her garden has been featured in numerous magazines, including Southern Living, Victoria, Garden Gate, Oklahoma, Mother Earth News, and others. Linda has hosted a weekly gardening segment on Oklahoma's News 4 for 14 years. She also runs her own online television channel, Linda Vater TV, and has partnered with brands such as HGTV, Park Seed, the Home Depot, and the Southern Living Plant Collection. Linda's line of gardening products, the Linda Vater Signature Collection, will debut on QVC in the spring of 2021.

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