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The Royal Horticultural Society Jill Billington

The Royal Horticultural Society By Jill Billington

The Royal Horticultural Society by Jill Billington

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The most memorable feature of any garden is its colour. From the soft blues and creams of a calm, relaxing mood to the vivacious, hot colours that energize the spirit, Jill Billington explores how to translate favourite colours and preferred moods into individual garden schemes.

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The Royal Horticultural Society: Colour Your Garden by Jill Billington

The most memorable feature of any garden is its colour. From the soft blues and creams of a calm, relaxing mood to the vivacious, hot colours that energize the spirit, Jill Billington explores how to translate favourite colours and preferred moods into individual garden schemes. Jill also explains how colour can be used in the overall design of the garden to achieve harmony and balance, inject contrast or provide emphasis and focus.

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Not only is colour a personal preference but it can dictate how a garden appears - cool, calm, hot, muted. It can also lengthen borders or widen narrow plots, draw the eye away from or to garden features with clever use of its infinitesimal range of hues. Garden writer and designer Jill Billington, in association with the Royal Horticultural Society, brings an inspirational look at colour uses in the garden, utilising her artist's eye to complement, enhance, attract or detract. Cool blues and mauves, fresh greens, sophisticated whites. Brooding purples, vibrant oranges, sunny yellows. All looked at with a view to plant partnerships, situation and effect. Full of inspirational ideas and accompanied by glorious colour photographs and watercolour planting plans, it will give a hesitant, colour-shy gardener the courage to strike out and transform their garden from merely colourful to a more definitive statement. - Lucy Watson

About Jill Billington

Jill Billington is a successful garden designer, lecturer and author. A natural innovator, she is increasingly known for her subtle approach to contemporary garden design and has won a number of awards in the UK and abroad. Jill has appeared on television numerous times including BBC2's Garden by Design and Gardeners' World and is a regular on the judging panels for the RHS Horticultural Shows, such as the Chelsea Flower Show. She is currently designing an installation garden for the new and contemporary International Westonbirt Festival of Gardens opening June to October 2002. She is the author of the best-selling RHS Really Small Gardens - also published by Quadrille.

Table of Contents

Exploring colour: colour as light; hue and intensity; value; tone; subjective response to colour; serendipity. The mood of the garden: a mood of calm; vivacious energy; rich tones; fresh and natural; chic and contemporary. Colour as a design ingredient: balance; unity; contrast and tension; emphasis and the focus. Colour in context: scale; larger gardens; smaller spaces; urban solutions; situation; soft blue light; woodland shade; bright light; exotic style. Plants lists by colour.

Additional information

GOR001587133
9781903845370
1903845378
The Royal Horticultural Society: Colour Your Garden by Jill Billington
Jill Billington
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Quadrille Publishing Ltd
2002-09-20
192
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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