Refresh Your Garden Design with Color, Texture and Form Author: Visit Amazon's Rebecca Sweet Page | Language: English | ISBN:
1440330409 | Format: PDF
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"This book can help you find your garden's weak spots, then freshen them using the right mix of flowers, foliage, textures, and colors. With design tips sprinkled throughout, it's like having a garden design professional beside you to help bring your space alive..." --
Kathy Brenzel, Senior Garden Editor, Sunset Magazine
"Rebecca's keen designer's eye and generous personality shine through in every page of this book. She arms you with common-sense techniques to see your garden with new eyes and identify areas for improvement. Her lessons break down garden design into its basic elements, and she teaches you how to use those elements to build your garden back up again. There's an 'ah-HA!' moment on every page." --
Michelle Gervais, Senior Editor, Fine Gardening
"Rebecca Sweet's useful and beautiful new book, Refresh Your Garden Design with Color, Texture & Form is filled with a bounty of professional tips and techniques that demystify the design process. If you try even one of her many great ideas for turning a drab yard into a dazzling landscape, you'll be rewarded with a newfound confidence to go further. Rebecca's engaging voice comes through with positive encouragement as shares years of experience with her DIY reader." --
Debra Prinzing, design writer, speaker, and author of 10 gardening books
"Rebecca explains how anyone can create an inviting garden that is essentially a three-dimensional work of art. You'll find out how to see your tired garden through fresh eyes, to use black-and-white photos of it to evaluate tone and texture, and clever ways to employ color and contrast. Every page offers insights that seem obvious until you realize you hadn't thought of them before. This is a book of ah-ha! moments and of harmonious garden spaces, and reassurances that Eden can indeed exist beyond any home's windows and sliding glass doors." --
Debra Lee Baldwin, Author and Designer
About the Author
Rebecca Sweet is a designer with her landscape design firm Harmony In The Garden. Her gardens have been featured in Sunset, Fine Gardening, Horticulture, Woman's Day and Country Living magazines, has been featured on the critically acclaimed PBS series Growing a Greener World, as well as a radio guest on Martha Stewart Living.
In addition to designing gardens, Rebecca is co-author of the best-selling Garden Up! Smart Vertical Gardening for Small and Large Spaces and shares her secrets to successful garden design in her column 'Harmony in the Garden', in HorticultureMagazine. Visit her website at harmonyinthegarden.com
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- Paperback: 160 pages
- Publisher: Horticulture Books (October 30, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1440330409
- ISBN-13: 978-1440330407
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 8.1 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
"Refresh Your Garden Design with Color, Texture & Form" by Rebecca Sweet was published just in time for winter 2013, which is good timing, as winter is the best time to think about making changes in your garden. And the author, a garden designer in Northern California, has many helpful suggestions for gardeners to think about:
The first chapter deals with seeing what's in your garden. It's hard for us to look at something we see every day and notice problem spots that could be improved: gaps where plants have died (we may still think of a spot as "belonging" to the plant that died so we haven't planted something else there); eyesores such as utility boxes, garbage cans or an unattractive structure in our neighbor's yard; or clashing colors between neighboring plants.
The best way to really see our gardens, according to Sweet, is take photos of every area and study them dispassionately, like a disinterested outsider. Also, another trick is to use photo editing software to make our photos black and white, so that we aren't distracted by colors, and we can focus on shapes and textures in garden areas. And using a marker to draw on photos can help us visualize new plant shapes in place. This first chapter is probably the most useful in the whole book.
The second chapter focuses on color theory, covering adjacent, complementary, split-complementary and monochromatic color schemes in the garden, using a color wheel and garden photos for illustration.
The third chapter shows how different textures can be used to create interest in the garden.
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