The Elegant and Edible Garden
Design a Dream Kitchen Garden to Fit Your Personality, Desires, and Lifestyle
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- $19.99
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
Discover how to partner ornamental plants with edible ones for a garden that offers both storybook appeal and a plethora of culinary delights.
Stylish and celebratory, The Elegant and Edible Garden takes food growing to a higher plane. Host of The Potager Blog (@potagerblog), author and garden stylist Linda Vater, shares her vision for creating a garden space where food and flowers grow side by side. Known as a potager, these gardens are formal in their framework yet flexible and personal in their edible yields. A potager garden is both lovely to look at and productive. Doubling as an outdoor living area, it is also the perfect place to entertain family and friends.
Inside you’ll learn:
How to grow flowers, fruits, veggies, and herbs together en masse The function of symmetry in a potager garden Ways to create visual harmony and match the style of the garden to its surroundings Tips for blending your family’s needs and lifestyle into the garden Advice on how to utilize focal points and garden ornaments in your garden’s layout The importance of rhythm, repetition, and harmony in potager designHow to position garden structures with practicality and purpose in mind Where to put your potager for not just convenience but also to create a destination Best practices for growing your beautiful new garden organically
Create a garden that rejoices in seasonality while still allowing your style and personality to shine. The Elegant and Edible Garden is a vision of the very best things a garden can offer: food, beauty, connection, and a place to breathe.
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"Even without great expertise, deep pockets, or a makeover television crew, you too can create a garden that appeals to all your senses," promises garden stylist Vater in her gorgeous debut. A self-taught vegetable and fruit gardener, Vater writes that her goal is to "flatten the learning curve for designing a beautiful, edible garden," and, accordingly, her to-the-point advice is to "just begin." Her tips aren't about soil pH or double-digging—instead, she touts the "romance" of a garden by combining edibles and ornamentals, and lays out her philosophy in three parts."Aspiration" covers beauty and style and encourages readers to find a "dream garden" to emulate, then work to make it their own with changes and omissions; "inspiration" considers design and organization, and outlines such principles as color, framing, and structure; and "motivation" looks at the power of stewardship ("take ownership of caring for the garden you tend by learning, watching, listening, and enjoying") and Earth-friendly gardening ("Be water wise"), and celebrates growing as a "linchpin" of life. The author's appreciation for her craft is infectious, and her writing is as delectable as the full-color photos. Gardening newbies will appreciate Vater's cool counsel.
