The Gardener's Palette: Creating Colour Harmony in the Garden by Jo Thompson

Fill Your Garden with Color! Everyone wants color in their garden, but each gardener’s preferred palette is unique. How do you choose the right one for your garden, and how do you find the plants that will help you fulfill your vision? The Gardener’s Palette, published in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society, shares an entirely new way for home gardeners to confidently incorporate color at home. Award-winning garden designer Jo Thompson offers 100 evocative and fresh palettes, pairs them with beautiful images of professionally designed gardens, and breaks them down with charts showing the exact plants used. Thompson also provides full growing specifications for every plant to allow home gardeners to successfully re-create these stunning gardens.

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From the Publisher Colour Harmony in Your Garden Published in partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society, The Gardener's Palette, is a lush, photo-rich approach to garden design that will appeal to stylish home gardeners everywhere. Vividly Pink in Deepest Purple The colour scheme in this planting is inspired by the landscape—a glorious backdrop in shades of green and purple, a palette that effectively fades away into the sky. Mounds of Buxus sempervirens are a reinterpretation of the majestic parkland trees in the distance, the box’s simple green working well with every colour. Allium hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation’ Why the alliums? It’s not just the heavy hint from the featured sculpture. Look at the grey-blue of the sky and the dark purple of the copper beech in the distance: the bright purple-blue of Allium hollandicum ‘Purple Sensation’ brings the two together perfectly. Hardy geraniums such as Geranium Rozanne = ‘Gerwat’ would provide the same colour, but the transparency of the allium’s drumstick flowerheads at height lets in some of the colour of the grass and the sky. Chaerophyllum hirsutum ‘Roseum’ The huge inflorescences of A. cristophii are of a lighter, more silvery violet, which is then picked up by the flat-topped lilac-pink heads of the gorgeous hairy chervil, Chaerophyllum hirsutum ‘Roseum’. You could use another pink umbellifer here, the dainty ferny-leaved Pimpinella major ‘Rosea’, but I find it very pink, nearer to red, whereas the chaerophyllum hangs on to its blue tones prettily. C Aconitum ‘Ivorine’ Highlights help colours stand out just a little bit from the green background, creating some distance between shades of pink and blue, and this is achieved here by the use of Geranium phaeum ‘Album’, whose small white transparent flowers have a certain greyness about them. They create an element of relief, but the flowers need to be small, and the dots of white are enough. Any larger clumps of white would be too much and fight for attention, which is not to say that we can’t have any more white: creamy white spires of Aconitum ‘Ivorine’ hold the green of the allium stems. Gladiolus communis subsp. Byzantinus And then for the counterpoint. What colour would be a contrast—for this planting needs something of a colour pop in order to keep our attention—and yet at the same time fit well with everything surrounding it? Again the deep purple-red tones of the Fagus sylvatica Atropurpurea Group in the background give us the clue. Taking these tones and then looking at verticals that one could carry across this colour scheme, the fuchsia-pink Gladiolus communis subsp. byzantinus comes top of the list for creating dashes of pink throughout. Tyrian Purple Also known as Phoenician red, Phoenician purple, royal purple, imperial purple, or imperial dye, Tyrian purple is a reddish purple natural pigment extracted from the marine mollusc Bolinus brandaris. It was first produced by the Phoenician city of Tyre some three thousand years ago and for centuries was used nearly exclusively by kings, noblemen, and high-ranking officials. King Darius the Great of Persia (c. 550–486 BCE) wore snail-dyed garments, and cloaks “aglow with Tyrian dye” are mentioned in Virgil’s Aeneid. Jo Thompson has been the recipient of four Gold and six Silver Gilt medals, as well as Best in Show at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. In 2017 she won the People’s Choice award at the first RHS Chatsworth Flower Show. Jo lectures internationally and tutors at The London College of Garden Design. Growing Bulbs in the Natural Garden Planting the Natural Garden Grasses for Gardens and Landscapes The Complete Book of Groundcovers Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Add to Cart Customer Reviews 28 531 25 57 Price $16 01 $23 74 $24 97 $17 53 Innovative techniques for combining bulbs and perennials in every season. Fans of Piet Oudolf will revel in this updated edition of the book that helped launch his career. This design-forward guide profiles the best ornamental grasses for use in landscapes and gardens—along with advice for successful cultivation. No matter what kinds of conditions you’re facing—shade, dry soil, heavy clay, excess moisture—there’s a ground cover that will thrive and beautify your garden.