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Colour in the Garden

Stylish ideas for year-round colour
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A GARDENS ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Includes beautiful contemporary planting palettes and advice on colour in containers and smaller spaces.' Gardens Illustrated 'Turn your garden into a riotous rainbow with the latest book from genius gardener and author, Lucy Bellamy.' Your Home 'Pots of joy'.... Read More
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A stylish but practical guide to using colour in the garden, including small spaces, through the year.

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A GARDENS ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF THE YEAR

'Includes beautiful contemporary planting palettes and advice on colour in containers and smaller spaces.'

Gardens Illustrated

'Turn your garden into a riotous rainbow with the latest book from genius gardener and author, Lucy Bellamy.'

Your Home

'Pots of joy'.

Sunday Times

'Bellamy makes gardening seem simple, expressive and joyful. Anyone can do it.'

Evening Standard

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'I am hungry for colour. I want jam red and acid yellow, violet blue and caterpillar green. I want cinnamon orange with scorched yellow, liquorice and blackcurrant. I want amethyst, putty and smoky blue, the liminal in-between colours, and sharp lemon with tart pink and purple that is rich and electric. We all know instinctively that colour is good for us and it is colour that draws me out into my garden.' Lucy Bellamy

When you add colour to a garden it instantly creates atmosphere. While most of us know which colours we like, and maybe even which colours we want in our garden, knowing which plants will achieve this can be more difficult.

Gardening writer Lucy Bellamy and photographer Jason Ingram offer a deep dive into a modern approach to colour, exploring how to choose plants and use them creatively and inventively. With inspirational planting schemes and plant lists, advice on colour in containers, tiny back gardens and compact front gardens, Colour in the Garden will change the way you approach your outdoor space.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781784729349

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 22 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Mitchell Beazley

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 194.0mm

Height: 248.0mm

Weight: 1100g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Lucy Bellamy was Editor of Gardens Illustrated magazine, the 'Vogue of gardening', for five years. Her first book, Brilliant and Wild: A Garden from Scratch in a Year, was awarded practical book of the year by the Garden Media Guild (2018) and has been translated into German, French and Dutch. Her first book for Mitchell Beazley, Grow 5, has been translated into German and French. She has written about gardening in the national press, including for the Guardian and The Times. Lucy lives in Bristol and has a small, city garden.

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