Fearless Color Gardens: The Creative Gardener's Guide to Jumping Off the Color Wheel

by Keeyla Meadows

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.

Genres: Gardening, Nonfiction

184 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2009

Reviews

[Cheryl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Love her gardens. Wish there were more images of it, even tho this was jammed with photos. (Too much plant pictures, I want to see her art!)

[Michelle · Rating 1 out of 5]

Lacks useful information. Majority of plants are not identified. This is more of an artists take on gardening. I was hoping for guidance on what types of plants to group together for colour throughout the seasons. Her aesthetic too wacky for my taste!

[Tara Schaafsma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely book. Mixing color and sculpture and flowers.

[raccoon reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was okay. It was not what I was looking for. I didn't realize it would be written by an artist who was more focused on giving you "artistic exercises" to help you jump start your color ideas. I didn't really need or want that. What I wanted was a more gardener based book showcasing color combos with flowers and pictures of gardens full of color. I really didn't like most of the decor in the gardens. The style of art they display is not my style. But I love colorful flowers. Too bad many of the flowers in the book (especially and mostly when they are in arrangements in pots/containers) would *not* be labeled. It would say something like "repetition and balance in a plant-planter combo." Uh, yeah, but what are the plants in the planter!!! Very disappointed in these lack of details. Lastly, I skimmed the writing because it just didn't grab me and hold my attention.

[Jodi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think that the author has some beautiful color combinations in this book and I really enjoyed looking at her pictures. She does use some interesting and confusing methods though, for example I don't really understand what she is talking about with the hokey pokey dance thing. There are some good ideas in this book especially if you love every and all color, I think this may have contributed to why I painted a flaking gray flower pot this spring purple.

[William · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting book by the aptly named Keeyla Meadows.

The author is very much an artist, and the book is designed to appeal to artists.

My own personal interests are more garden and less art.

[Cheryl Devine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good for inspiration

[Frances · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wonderful book with beautiful photos.