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The Bold and Brilliant Garden
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This book is ideal for gardening enthusiasts seeking bold, creative inspiration and practical guidance on planting vigorous, colourful, and scented gardens that deliver impact within a single season.
The Bold and Brilliant Garden offers a new approach to planting.
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This work offers a new approach to planning and planting. It shows how to throw caution to the wind and orchestrate colours, textures, scale and scent to spectacular effect from spring until autumn.
The key is colour: intense, strong and voluptuous - deep crimsons combined with acid green and incandescent orange, for example. Integral to Sarah Raven's vision is a feeling for dramatic scale: plants with huge presence, architectural foliage, strong, sculptural shapes. To complete the effect, she includes flowers with silken and velvety textures and describes how to flood the garden with scent.
There are schemes for sunny, open beds and borders, for shady areas, for damp soils and to clothe walls and fences - many of which include lots of quick-growing annuals and take only a season to achieve.
The Bold and Brilliant Garden is your guide to creating a spectacular garden with vibrant colours and captivating scents, transforming it into a lush oasis of dramatic beauty.
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Acclaimed by experts: Stephen Anderton of The Times describes it as "an antidote to pale pink and blue gardening." Monty Don from The Observer praises it as "a seriously researched and really useful guide." The stunning photography by Jonathan Buckley is noted as making this book a visual delight and a must-have for garden lovers by Period Ideas.
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ISBN: 9780711217522
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 May 2001
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Frances Lincoln
Illustration: 210 colour photographs
Contributors:
- By Jonathan Buckley
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 232.0mm
Height: 287.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 168
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About the Author
Sarah Raven, writer, cook, broadcaster and teacher, is an expert on all things to grow, cut and eat from your garden. She runs cooking, flower arranging and gardening courses from her farm in East Sussex and is the author of several books on gardening, including The Cutting Garden, which won the Garden Writers' Guild Award for Best Specialist Gardening Book in 1993. She also writes for national newspapers and magazines and is a presenter on BBC Gardeners' World. Sarah is married to the writer Adam Nicolson and has two daughters and three stepsons. They live at Perch Hill Farm in East Sussex.
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