Fearless Color Gardens
The Creative Gardener’s Guide to Jumping Off the Color Wheel
Keeyla Meadows
Pub Date: December 2009
ISBN: 978-0-88192-940-9
196 pp, 248 color photos
8 1/2 x 10", hardcover
$27.95
Renowned garden artist Keeyla Meadows sees the world in strong, saturated shades. Fearless Color Gardens brings this unique vision to life by showing how to use wild, uninhibited color to help connect indoor and outdoor spaces and turn a garden into a work of art.
Readers will learn how to pick colors that work together to enhance the relationship between their indoor and outdoor spaces; how to coordinate the colors of walls, benches, containers, and garden art; how to organize garden spaces through the use of color; and how to translate personal color preferences into tangible form in the garden.
Fearless Color Gardens also features a new way of looking at color with “Keeyla’s Color Triangle;” Keeyla’s favorite plants for specific colors; and easy-to use tips on growing edibles in color-themed gardens.
In the end, readers will learn how to reinvent the staid rules of the color wheel and turn their color preferences into intoxicatingly vibrant garden expressions.
STORY IDEAS
• Growing edibles in color-themed gardens
• Design a garden that coordinates with your indoor space
• Interview Keeyla Meadows—artist, gardener, and creative thinker
Keeyla Meadows’ garden has appeared on “Good Morning America” and “Grow It!”, and has been featured in Sunset, Metropolitan Home, Fine Gardening, and Horticulture magazines. She teaches classes and lectures on garden topics. She has published numerous articles about color and the garden in magazines and newspapers, and is the author of Making
Gardens Works of Art (Sasquatch Books, 2002).
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