Overview
"Growing plants in the home has always been popular, and in this volume interior and garden designer, Diana Yakeley, shows how to choose and position plants to create maximum impact, taking into account scale and proportion, form and shape, colour and scent, and texture and pattern. There is also guidance on finding just the right containers and accessories to suit different plants and room schemes. A section on interiors looks at each room of the house in turn, revealing the best plants to create a striking focal point. The remaining chapters are a visual extravaganza of plant displays. Choose from the understated elegance of architectural plants, cacti and succulents or foliage plants in ""Plant Sculpture"", or indulge those creative urges with the section on ""Colour"". ""Seasonal Displays"" shows how to ring in the changes throughout the year, while ""Edible Plants"" explains how to grow herbs, salad leaves and tender fruits indoors. A useful section at the end of the book gives practical advice on how to care for indoor plants, while ""Plant Focus"" provides detailed horticultural information on a range of different plants."
Full Product Details
Author: Diana Yakeley ,
Caroline Arber
Publisher: Anness Publishing
Imprint: Aquamarine
Dimensions:
Width: 22.80cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 27.90cm
Weight: 1.082kg
ISBN: 9781903141113
ISBN 10: 1903141117
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 January 2018
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Diana Yakeley combines her interior design knowledge with that of her gardening to bring a stylish book on how best to display your houseplants. She shows how to get the most out of your buys by choosing the right plant for the right place and display it to its best advantage with a complementary planter. Room by room, by form, colour and seasonal interest, the author demonstrates how a simple cactus can be transformed into what is almost a work of art. Concentrating on colour matching and balance, she explains how to enhance a plant display, to tone down over-femininity or exaggerate a contemporary form. Not limiting herself to tender plants, she shows how displays can be made by borrowing, short-term, from outside: cyclamen, hellebores, fruit and vegetables. From table settings to decorative features, her designs are clean, chic and contemporary, shown to perfection by the excellent photographs of Caroline Arber. Although the cultivation advice is minimal, the overall concept of designing with houseplants is sound and inspirational and should provide a wealth of ideas for plants and how to display them in every room of the house.
Author Information
Diana Yakeley is a trained interior designer as well as a designer of contemporary gardens. An associate with her husband in an architectural practice, she has a clean, uncluttered approach to both interior design and gardening. Her modern, green-and-white garden in Islington, London, has been photographed extensively for a range of lifestyle magazines and books. Diana exhibits at various shows, including the Homes & Gardens Fair in 1999.
