Product Description

Joy Larkcom explains how to mix colour, texture, and form to plant a superb vegetable garden that will rival any conventional arrangement, no matter how small the plot. Organized in thematic chapters, this book offers sound, practical advice as well as inspiration from around the world. All aspects of creating an ornamental kitchen garden are covered from design ideas for attractive paths, edges and beds, to focal points and features. Step-by-step artworks and an extensive plant directory detailing vegetables, herbs, and edible flowers by type provides an exhaustive listing for all creative garden planners.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #231696 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

About the Author
Joy Larkcom is well-known as an author, lecturer, journalist and television broadcaster. She is one of the country's leading writers on vegetable growing and her books include: The Salad Garden (1984); Oriental Vegetables (1991); The Vegetable Garden Displayed (1992); Vegetables for Small Gardens (1995); Salads for Small Gardens (1995). Joy also writes reglarly for a number of magazines, including the Royal Horticultural Society's journal, The Garden.

Customer Reviews

A book to refer to time and again
This is a sumptuous book with an infectous enthusiasm for all things edible and decorative. It has become a firm favourite of mine. It offers loads of ideas of combinations, both formal and informal, which will work in gardens small and large, and the author conveys confidence in her readers' creative abilities which makes you yearn to have a go. She encourages experimentation and letting plants run to flower and seed, with disdain for the rigidly controlled potager. There is a detailed section at the back including 'planning for succession' for year round produce and beauty, and a 'directory' for detailed information on plant requirements and habits. The paper is fine quality and the wealth of pictures are gorgeous. A really lovely book.

Great book
If you're a creative person, and have a veg garden, then this book is for you.

It offers great inspiration on making the vegetable garden look good, getting away from the traditional straight lines, what to put with what in terms of textures and colours among other aspects, and how to create dramatic effects in the potager.

Lovely book.

Creative Vegetable Gardening review.
This is a lovely book to fill you with enthusiasm for growing vegetables. It shows many different ways of incorporating them into the garden as a whole. I liked it and would recommend it.