The Edible Rainbow Garden

by Rosalind Creasy

Rosalind Creasy, the grande dame of edible landscaping, has created a fun, hands-on guide that shows us how to fill our gardensand our plateswith brightly-colored, not your-everyday vegetables. In urging us to take the art of food preparation soaring to a colorful new level, Creasy reminds us that our pleasure in gardening is reflected in our pleasure at the table.

With brilliant photos, plant information, and technical how-to, Creasy explains how to plan gardens with an eye for color. She takes us on a walking tour through The Hidden Villa, where she designed a 2,000 square-foot rainbow gardenwith the help of Josephine and Frank Duveneck, among othersto the delight and amusement of thousands of school children from northern California.

A section full of savory, deliciousand colorfulrecipes gives fabulous suggestions on what to do with the great vegetables you can find in a rainbow garden. Have you ever experienced the appearance and flavor of lavender-colored vichyssoise? Or how about entertaining guests with spinach fettuccine laced with white marinara sauce? You'll have no problem getting your child to eat their true-blue pancakes, made of course with blueberriesand blue cornmeal. Enjoy!

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

108 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2000

About the author

Rosalind Creasy is a garden and food writer, photographer, landscape designer, lecturer and consultant. She is the author of several books, including The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping, Cooking From the Garden, Edible Gardening, The Complete Book of Edible Landscaping and Edible Landscaping. Her writing has also appeared in national publications such as the Los Angeles Times and Gardening How-To, where she writes regular columns, and Garden Design.

Reviews

[db · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book could be helpful if you are mixing your vegetables and flower plants because then you want to think about color. Fun way to think about growing vegetables.

[Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

Just for fun this is a suggestion to those who wish for a lush look even in their vegetables. Here are cultivars selected for color and style plus recipes to use them.