Book Description
Looks at one hundred flowering plants arranged by color offering information on their care, condition requirements, companion plants, size, bloom time, and growing zones.
Author : Tom Fischer
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 27,87 MB
Release : 2010-02-24
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1604690844
Looks at one hundred flowering plants arranged by color offering information on their care, condition requirements, companion plants, size, bloom time, and growing zones.
Author : Jo Thompson
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,68 MB
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604699593
Fill Your Garden with Color! Everyone wants color in their garden, but each gardener’s preferred palette is unique. How do you choose the right one for your garden, and how do you find the plants that will help you fulfill your vision? The Gardener’s Palette, published in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society, shares an entirely new way for home gardeners to confidently incorporate color at home. Award-winning garden designer Jo Thompson offers 100 evocative and fresh palettes, pairs them with beautiful images of professionally designed gardens, and breaks them down with charts showing the exact plants used. Thompson also provides full growing specifications for every plant to allow home gardeners to successfully re-create these stunning gardens.
Author : Sydney Eddison
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780809298938
Any gardener can transform a dull perennial patch into a visual paradise with the expert tips in these beautifully illustrated pages. Written by a trained artist, this volume offers instruction on "painting" with nature's colors. With an introduction to the color wheel and basic color theory, green thumbs learn to use harmonies and contrasts like an artist does on canvas. 300 color photos.
Author : Keeyla Meadows
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 26,53 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1604691298
Renowned garden artist Keeyla Meadows sees the world in strong, saturated shades. Fearless Color Gardens brings this unique vision to life by showing how to use wild, uninhibited color to connect indoor and outdoor spaces and turn a garden into a work of art. Learn how to pick colors that work together; how to coordinate the colors of walls, benches, containers, and garden art; how to organize garden spaces through the use of color; and how to translate personal color preferences into tangible form in the garden. Fearless Color Gardens also features a new way of looking at color with "Keeyla's Color Triangle"; easy-to use tips on growing edibles in color themed gardens; and Keeyla's favorite plants for specific colors. In the end, readers will want to reinvent the staid rules of the color wheel and turn their color preferences into intoxicatingly vibrant garden expressions.
Author : Gertrude Jekyll
Publisher :
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Color
ISBN :
Author : David Lee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 22,94 MB
Release : 2010-09-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226471055
Though he didn’t realize it at the time, David Lee began this book twenty-five years ago as he was hiking in the mountains outside Kuala Lumpur. Surrounded by the wonders of the jungle, Lee found his attention drawn to one plant in particular, a species of fern whose electric blue leaves shimmered amidst the surrounding green. The evolutionary wonder of the fern’s extravagant beauty filled Lee with awe—and set him on a career-long journey to understand everything about plant colors. Nature’s Palette is the fully ripened fruit of that journey—a highly illustrated, immensely entertaining exploration of the science of plant color. Beginning with potent reminders of how deeply interwoven plant colors are with human life and culture—from the shifting hues that told early humans when fruits and vegetables were edible to the indigo dyes that signified royalty for later generations—Lee moves easily through details of pigments, the evolution of color perception, the nature of light, and dozens of other topics. Through a narrative peppered with anecdotes of a life spent pursuing botanical knowledge around the world, he reveals the profound ways that efforts to understand and exploit plant color have influenced every sphere of human life, from organic chemistry to Renaissance painting to the highly lucrative orchid trade. Lavishly illustrated and packed with remarkable details sure to delight gardeners and naturalists alike, Nature’s Palette will enchant anyone who’s ever wondered about red roses and blue violets—or green thumbs.
Author : Lorene Edwards Forkner
Publisher : Abrams
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 32,9 MB
Release : 2022-04-26
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1647005507
Capture all the hues of the garden with a few simple brushtrokes and Lorene Edwards Forkner’s inspirational advice on observing color in nature, painting with watercolor, and gardening with joy and intention If you love flowers and the rich colors of the garden, Color In and Out of the Garden is for you. Artist and garden expert Lorene Edwards Forkner shares her simple watercolor techniques for capturing every lovely hue in a miniature artwork. Along the way, she also offers practical advice on topics from painting (no matter your skill level) to gardening mindfully to celebrating life. This delightfully useful and addictively readable little book may just inspire you to begin keeping a garden journal of your own, so you can record favorite plants with just a few simple brushstrokes. Arranged by color, each chapter helps readers sharpen their powers of observation and capture nature’s lovely palette. Plant profiles and personal reflections mingle with creative prompts for making a simple watercolor that helps focus one's attention. Both a mindfulness exercise for seeing garden colors and an easy guide to reproducing them on the page, Forkner guides you through the spectrum with her own watercolors while offering inspiration and a delightful garden respite from everyday stress.
Author : Kari Cornell, Diane Ackerman, Michael Pollan
Publisher :
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781610605281
Author : Thomas Fischer
Publisher :
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 19,70 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Angiosperms
ISBN : 9781604691269
Tom Fischer profiles 100 top-performing flowering plants in ten different colour categories, concentrating on those that are both widely growable in a variety of climates and that are the most striking representatives of their colour group.
Author : Patrick Baty
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 24,39 MB
Release : 2021-05-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 0691217041
This fully realized colour catalogue includes elegant contemporary illustrations of every animal, plant or mineral cited in Syme's edition of “Werner's nomenclature of colours”