Great tools for understanding color combinations

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	• Fearless Color Gardens: The Creative Gardener's Guide to Jumping Off the Color Wheel Keeyla Meadows Timber Press, 2009 - 180 pages average customer review:based on 8 reviews view larger image
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Fun Art--Beautiful Color Combinations

If you like funky art (and I do) and bright colors, this is the book for you. The author not only deals with flowers but treats the entire yard as an all encompasing environment. One thing that can make plant selection difficult is providing each plant's individual requirements. There is very little discussion of that. All in all, it's an enjoyable read.

Great tools for understanding color combinations

This book, while it could be better organized, has wonderful methods for demystifying color combinations, and encourages you to play with color, and learn to see color in new ways. Yes, it is not a book about plant combinations per se. There are other books out there for that. But if you're willing to put in the time to explore color, you'll be ready for combining colors in your home, garden, printed designs, and more. I found the colors and art alone inspirational. I deducted a star because the information is somewhat randomly spread throughout the book, and the method could be stated more clearly. I've blogged about my experience with the book putting together container plantings at [..]

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Great colors

Bright cheery colors but not much detailed info on how to carry out the ideas. Great inspirational book though

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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 connect indoor and outdoor spaces and turn a garden into a work of art. Learn how to pick colors that work together; 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"; easy-to use tips on growing edibles in color themed gardens; and Keeyla's favorite plants for specific colors.

In the end, readers will want to reinvent the staid rules of the color wheel and turn their color preferences into intoxicatingly vibrant garden expressions.

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