Color in Garden Design
"Color in Garden Design is not an easy book to read. Nor can you breeze through the photographs and pick up basic information about combining flower colors. Instead, Austin's approach to color is rigorous and professional; the book should be required reading for a complete course in garden design. If you are the kind of gardener who wants to know why, or if you are in the design profession, this book will bridge the gap between the purely scientific studies of color and the way color is used and responded to in the garden. Like serious gardeners who insist on Latin binomials for identification of plants, Austin pushes the reader to understand some of the technical language of color.In her introduction, Austin says, "Perhaps the most exciting role of moire detailed and accurate color knowledge will be in spurring creativity. Many designers will be able to take the information in this book and look at their gardens in a new way, and create gardens that can't yet be imagined . . . color offers one possibility for organizing and discovering these new designs."   --Ann Leyhe,Horticulture"For anyone very serious about color...This reflective book goes far beneath superficial color associations. This is not a book to skim. Her discussions on the role of background colors are a revelation."  --Richard L. Bitner,The Pennsylvania Horticulture Society, September 1998--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.