Color in Garden Design

by Sandra Austin

Book Overview

This artfully executed book is the first gardening guide to fully explain how and why colors work together in the garden. Enchanting author Sandra Austin takes gardeners beyond the common color wheel... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1561581879
• ISBN13: 9781561581870
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Taunton Press
• Length: 165 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.8" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent reference for Color Theory

This is an excellent book. I am ordering 5 more as reference for my students in Landscape Design. Sandra covers color systems , names, hue, value and saturation in detail. Color diagrams are included for easy understanding of all concepts presented. This is by far the best color book I have seen.

Color for everyone...

Ms. Austin has taken the scientific complexities of color and condensed them to the point where almost anyone can understand them. The beauty of this book is that not only is the scientific nature of color explored but also how to apply this knowlege in a physical sense. I enjoyed the discusssion of how light, shape, texture and other physical properties of plants (and really all things) effect how our eyes interpret the colors that we see all around us.This knowlege has been very helpful to me personally, not only in my own attempts at landscaping but in other aspects of design.

Color As You've Never Seen It Before...

A fabulous book! Reading it is like taking a short course in the study of color. Sandra Austin explains the various ways color has been "harnessed" historically through the use of color systems, and then she proceeds to free your mind to intelligently explore color combinations on your own. I felt enlightened and liberated after reading this book; no longer plagued with insecurity, I proceeded to compose a perenial garden on my one acre with delightful results. Despite a few "typo's", the book is written with painstaking clarity. An intense subject,I found reading a few pages every night was all I could absorb. And that kept me craving more. I look forward to another book from Ms. Austin on the subject of color! How about COLOR IN GARDEN DESIGN BOOK 2?