The Gardener's Book of Color

by Andrew Lawson

Book Overview

A comprehensive guide to using color in the garden to best advantage. "Color is the most potent weapon in a gardener's armory," Andrew Lawson writes. "Nothing in a garden makes more impact." This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0895778580
• ISBN13: 9780895778581
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 10.2" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Stunning

This is one of my all time favorite books, I return to it time and again for ideas, ispiration and information. Andrew Lawson has written the definitive book on using color in the garden, there are wonderful examples of single color gardens, as well as using contrasting and co-ordinating colors with plants. He gives great suggestions for plants to use. The photographs in this book, taken by Lawson himself are superb. Every gardener will get something from this brilliant book.

new ways to look at color

Lawson does a better job of presenting and especially operationalizing color blending than any of ten books I looked at. He also consistently identifies what is in the glorious pictures. I am amazed by how many authors do not do this. It is an outstanding book for a beginner, that's me, to make a garden look like a pro did it, and for an experienced gardener to gain new perspectives and want to plant even more.