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.

Looks at one hundred flowering plants arranged by color offering information on their care, condition requirements, companion plants, size, bloom time, and growing zones.

Shows and describes ornamental trees, shrubs, and flowers, explains soil and care requirements, and recommends specific varieties

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.

"Flower gardens are a sensual delight, brimming with color and texture, perfumed by sweet and subtle scents, humming with bees and butterflies. But creating such a garden can be daunting, especially for gardeners starting from scratch. The Gardener's Palette takes the mystery out of planning and planting a flourishing garden, providing the gardener with invaluable advice and gorgeous photographs to serve as inspiration. Treating the garden as a blank canvas and the gardener as an artist, the book takes readers through the process of conceiving, planning, and planting a beautiful flower garden. It includes a list of more than 800 flowers and plants, categorized by color - an especially useful resource for beginning gardeners. Whatever type of garden you're planning - from English cottage garden to container garden to formal parterre - The Gardener's Palette offers tips for seasonal planting, effective plant combinations, and decorative elements like steps, pathways, and trellises." -back cover.

Plants are grouped into colors and heights for easy reference, and each plant is photographed in close-up and in context. Gardening information includes Latin and common names, aspect, hardiness, height and spread, blooming period and soil type.--From publisher description.

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.