Colour For Adventurous Gardeners

Here, at last, is a book on gardening with colour by its most adventurous exponent – Christopher Lloyd. This book is about using colour for maximum impact.

No border, no garden is ever monochromatic and even an all-green garden consists of many shades, yet books for gardeners treat each colour as a separate entity and, like painting by numbers, set out rules to be followed. With a chapter on every colour – from 'Challenging Orange' to 'Sophisticated Black', Christopher Lloyd explores each colour in
relation to others and discusses the rules in order to encourage the gardener to break them.

If a colour is 'polite', Lloyd certainly knows how to liven it up without making it vulgar. In a fashionable all-white border, he advocates a touch of clear pink to make you sit up; he suggests bright scarlet rose hips in a purple bed to introduce a note of rebellion.

This is not another book on gardening with colour. It's opinionated, it's controversial and it's the most colourful book on plant associations you'll ever read.