Color Your Garden: The Royal Horticultural Society (Rhs) - Hardcover

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.

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