Sarah Raven
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The Bold & Brilliant Garden offers an intoxicating new approach to planning and planting. Sarah Raven's message is to throw caution to the winds and c
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reate havens of lush, abundant growth filled with scent and sumptuous color from spring until autumn. What is more, many of the schemes she suggests take only a season to achieve; among her favorite plants are lots of annuals and quick-growing perennials. Whether you are starting a new garden or want to bring theatrical exuberance to just one area of your existing garden, you will learn from this book how to orchestrate colors, textures, scale and scent to spectacular effect. The key is color: intense, strong and voluptuous ... Her bravura ideas are backed by uncompromisingly practical advice. There are schemes for sunny, open beds and borders, for shady areas, for damp soils, and to clothe walls and fences. Detailed horticultural information and planting plans that specify the exact number of plants to use are complemented by telling photographs, many of them specially taken in the author's own innovative garden. --jacket flap.
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